Calorie deficit?

Same here. Fitbit does this I would like Garmin to do the same.

I don't want my goal calorie intake to change due to active minutes. I was it to remain the same. No "adjusted goal". If my caloric intake goal is 1400 for the day but I burn 300 calories working out, I still want my goal to remain 1400 and for it to tell me the difference between what I burned all day and what I ate. I'm shooting for a 1,000 calorie deficit, I want to see how close I am to hitting that daily.

2976439 said:

I'm shooting for a 1,000 calorie deficit, I want to see how close I am to hitting that daily.

The necessary Calorie deficit for the weight loss you planned at MFP is already contained in the Daily Goal. It means you just need to control your Calories consumation and burning in such way, that the Remaining value stays close to zero, or in positive values (meaning higher than planned weight-loss).

If you do not want MFP to control the Calories Goal, simply deduce Calories Consumed from Total Calories Burned, to get the deficit. 

But the remaining goal keeps changing with active calories. I want the active calories to contribute to my deficit not make it so that I can eat more. I appreciate You posting but this is not what I'm looking for, Fitbit had an easy chart that showed burn versus consumed every day of the week. I don't understand why Garmin can't have the same. There is a chart but all that lists out numerically is active calories, there's nowhere for me to click to see how many calories I actually burned that day so I would have to use a ruler on the chart to figure it out.

Set your calorie goal to your RMR. RMR is your non-active calorie burn, and active calories will be added to the displayed goal, so the "remaining" number listed will be your deficit for the day and the adjusted "goal" will be your total calorie burn.

Alternatively, you can set your baseline calorie goal in MFP to your RMR minus 1,000 kilocalories (which it what it will do automatically if you tell it to aim for 2 pounds a week weight loss). In that case, the "remaining" count tells you whether you're over or under your desired 1,000 kcal deficit. It's giving you the same information you want, it's just not framing it in exactly the way you want.

2976439 said:

I want the active calories to contribute to my deficit not make it so that I can eat more.

Those are the same thing. If you are more active, you can eat more while still maintaining a 1,000 kcal deficit, which is built into the starting goal if you use their automatic calculation for two pounds lost per week or manually set your goal to your RMR minus 1000, as trux noted. Your goal is already set to 1,000 kcal less than your RMR, so adding more calories burned from activity adds to that deficit beyond the initial 1,000, meaning you need to eat more to get back to a 1,000 kcal deficit. But you can get that number displayed by following my first suggestion; you just need to mentally read "remaining" as "deficit".

The deficit listing you want is also there in that Garmin Connect Mobile screen you posted, you just need to click on the date to see total calorie burn and consumption for a given day. There does not appear to be an option to display the difference in consumed/burned calories each day as a graph. I assume their reasoning is that such a display doesn't tell one much, as the daily difference is mostly useful for a given day to determine how much one needs to eat (MyFitnessPal also appears to lack such a display, probably for similar reasons, else you could just use their app to see the graph).

I finally understand. You're right, I needed to change the meaning of the fields in my own brain. 

Thank you to everyone taking the time to explain. 

But is there a way to get these numbers on your watch(fenix 5)