06-10-2015 01:09
06-10-2015 01:09
Hi, so I just got a Charge HR and I am a long term MyFitnessPal user. I have linked the MyFitnessPal app and it is syncing all food data over brilliantly.
However last night I had a run (which I logged on my Charge HR with the start/end exercise feature); I burnt 370 calories but no matter how much I synced it across it would not show on MyFitnessPal so in the end I had to add it manually to MyFitnessPal. It is definitely receiving data as it added a calorie adjustment on MyFitnessPal but it was only 80 calories.
Am I doing something wrong here? I'm a little confused.
Thanks in advance.
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06-10-2015 02:29
06-10-2015 02:29
You'll get the calorie adjustment based on differences between Fitbit and estimated MFP calorie burns.
"Why doesn't my MFP Exercise Diary - Fitbit calorie adjustment equal my workout calorie burn?
Because that MFP figure is not exercise.
That figure is the difference between Fitbit's total daily burn which includes your exercise, and what MFP thought you'd burn with no exercise.
Any difference includes exercise and daily activities. You could have no exercise and big positive adjustment from being very active. You could have big exercise and no positive adjustment from being very inactive that day outside of exercise.
You can see this fact by clicking on the "i" for more info on that Fitbit calorie adjustment line.
You should enable Negative Calorie adjustment too for sick or lazy days.
MFP - Settings - Diary Settings - Calorie Adjustments - Enable Negative Adjustments.
The reason it's put under exercise is so MFP correctly increases your eating goal, so the same deficit is maintained. You do more, you eat more, same deficit. MFP is merely correcting it's estimate of daily burn, which is based on your selection of activity level, and if you selected wrong, you get big adjustments, and then deficit is taken."
06-10-2015 02:29
06-10-2015 02:29
You'll get the calorie adjustment based on differences between Fitbit and estimated MFP calorie burns.
"Why doesn't my MFP Exercise Diary - Fitbit calorie adjustment equal my workout calorie burn?
Because that MFP figure is not exercise.
That figure is the difference between Fitbit's total daily burn which includes your exercise, and what MFP thought you'd burn with no exercise.
Any difference includes exercise and daily activities. You could have no exercise and big positive adjustment from being very active. You could have big exercise and no positive adjustment from being very inactive that day outside of exercise.
You can see this fact by clicking on the "i" for more info on that Fitbit calorie adjustment line.
You should enable Negative Calorie adjustment too for sick or lazy days.
MFP - Settings - Diary Settings - Calorie Adjustments - Enable Negative Adjustments.
The reason it's put under exercise is so MFP correctly increases your eating goal, so the same deficit is maintained. You do more, you eat more, same deficit. MFP is merely correcting it's estimate of daily burn, which is based on your selection of activity level, and if you selected wrong, you get big adjustments, and then deficit is taken."
06-10-2015 02:33
06-10-2015 02:33
Thank you that makes more sense - I only wore it that night so all it really logged was my workout, I'm wearing it all day today so hopefully it works out better 🙂