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MyFittnesPal integration, missing calorie goal, no resting calories and negative active calories (-15,153 kcal)

Yesterday I downloaded MyFitnessPal, created a new MyFitnessPal account, and linked it to Garmin Connect to test out logging of calories. I only sync run activities to Garmin Connect, so unless I've been out running the Garmin Connect app will show my active calories as "--" which I assumed was equal to "0 kcal".

Yesterday when I first tried this out I logged 1474 kcal in MyFitnessPal, I had one running activity logged during the day resulting in 734 active calories and Garmin Connect displayed the following:

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Active: 734
Consumed: 1474
Adjusted goal: 1980 + 734 = 2714
Calories remaining: Adjusted goal (2714) - Consumed (1474) = +1240

This looked like what I expected and the calculations made sense. But today when I re-checked yesterday's date the calorie goal from MyFitnessPal is empty, so the calculation is changed to -740 kcal instead of +1240 kcal:

Active: 734
Consumed: 1474
Adjusted goal: -- + 734 = 734
Calories remaninig: Adjusted goal (734) - Consumed (1474) = -740

Also for today's date the active calories start at -15,153 kcal instead of 0 kcal and my resting calories are set to 0 kcal resulting in the below:

Active: --
Consumed: 207
Adjusted goal: 1980 + -- = --
Calories remaninig: Adjusted goal (--) - Consumed (207) = -13 380

- Why did 'calorie goal' disappear for yesterday in Garmin Connect? Is that something that should happen?

- Why is "active calories" set to "-15,153" on the web (not visible in the app) and why are my resting calories set 0 (on the web) for today's date?

- If I look at yesterday's date using Garmin Connect on the web, the active calories and resting calories are correctly set, but instead "goal calories" is set to 0. On MyFitnessPal the "Goal calories" is correctly set for the same date.

Is this a temporary glitch and everything will sync correctly eventually or how I can I fix this?

Edit: I've tried to press "sync now" for both dates and Garmin Connect is syncing with MyFitnessPal, but the numbers stay the same.

0 martin.h over 4 years ago

The "calorie goal" was set correctly now the next day. Calorie goals for previous dates still doesn't update even if Garmin Connect is able to update the calories consumed for the same historical date.

As for the resting calories it's still set to 0 calories. It was fine the first two days when I started using MyFitnessPal, but the last two day's its been 0 kcal. Weight, height, age and activity level are all correctly set both in Garmin Connect and MyFitnessPal.

The large negative active calories appear to be due to me exporting the step count from Apple Health to Garmin Connect using RunGap. I checked today, the active calories was correctly set to "0 kcal" before I imported the steps using RunGap, after the import the step count was updated and the active calories changed from 0 calories to -48,276 calories. So I guess this one I need to blame RunGap for.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago

Yesterday January 13th I completed my goal but when I look at the step tracker it’s not completed , every time I complete my goal my watch let’s me know, and it did it said steps completed but later on I look at the watch it’s showing as if I didn’t complete the 12,970 I definitely completed it and got robbed if this is the way it will be I may stop using Garmin step tracker that’s not right !