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MyFitnessPal - how to delete 'adaptation of calories'

Former Member
Former Member over 5 years ago

Hi,

I bought myself a VivoActive 4S this past weekend and linked it through the Garmin Connect app with my MyFitnessPal account. Now I notice that every day I get additional calories to use just by walking / living. But I don't want this. I only want to get additional calories (in the app ;) ) from real sport activities that I do. I already clicked on the function 'steps - do not count steps' in the MFP app, but it just keeps going despite it. I can delete this every day again and again via a regular computer (not my phone), but it would be much handier if it just did NOT count those calories.

Anyone got a solution?

Thanks, Evy

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    In Garmin Connect you cannot separate active calories from logged activites and the unlogged activity, and it would also make no sense, because you need to satisfy the total calory expenditure, not only the one logged as an "activity". In the same way, if you try lose or gain weight, you still need to calculate with the total calory burn, not only the one artificially logged as an "activity".

    If you still want to do it, for whatever reason, in MFP, then it would be better asking their support, or their community - they will be able to help better. Anyway, as told, you cannot do it on the side of GC.

  • 0 over 5 years ago
    • In Garmin Connect Mobile User Settings, set "Activity Level" to "7." Changing this to anything else for some reason really gooses the calorie burn counts. No idea why.

    In MyFitnessPal's settings:

    • set "Activity Level" to "Not Very Active" or "Sedentary." You do this to stop MFP from attempting to make wild guesses about your activity, because you're using a fitness tracker (Garmin) to actively track data about your steps and exercises.
    • Ensure "Fitness Goals" are set to "ZERO" workouts per week, "Exercise Calories" should be "ON", for the same reason as above - you don't want MFP making guesses.
    • Link Garmin as a source of steps (I think you have to do this to also get exercises to sync but I'm open to being corrected)
    • Enable "Negative Calories Adjustment" on their web-interface, here.

    Functionally, this tells both ecosystems to ONLY apply credit/debit of calories when eating or exercising and not take wild guesses, and tracking steps in MFP with the negative calorie adjustment prevents MFP from double-crediting steps when they were done during an exercise.

    Doing the above, I can get Garmin Connect and MFP to within about 30kcal of each other, even on a day that involved a marathon.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Otto-Destruct

    Great, thanks a lot!!

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    Hi. I was just wondering can you completely disconnect the exercise calories I just want it to show what I have left out of my calories they have already been adjusted to take account of my activity level anyway so I dont need to eat any extra calories as I need to be in deficit to lose weight. It is currently showing thousands over which is crazy. I have done all the other steps but I literally want it to stop so have disconnected MFP from Garmin and hoping by tomorrow this will no longer do this 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    In MFP go to settings, uncheck enable negative adjustments. I believe that will do the trick.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to 7693697

    Go into Garmin Connect SETTING/CONNECTED APPS - and delete the app connection.