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Exercise Calories in diet app (MyNetDiary) disappearing through the day.

I have the Venu 2, and I synced the Garmin Connect app to my calorie counting app MyNetDiary. I’ve noticed that when I exercise, the calories are imported from Garmin to MyNetDiary, but they disappear gradually throughout the day. For example, I took a run this morning and my watch estimated 250 active calories burned , and this showed up in MyNetDiary, but by noon the calories out listed under “exercise” in the dieting app had dropped to 110, and an hour later was at 86.

Does anyone what settings I need to change to fix this? My searching can’t even narrow down which app is the culprit, although I believe it’s the Garmin app.

0 5262094 over 2 years ago

Seconding here that I also have this as an issue

0 3103958 over 1 year ago

Hi there, I don't use Garmin but I do use FitBit and I see the exact same issue as you, so it's not Garmin, it's MyNetDiary. I believe it's because of the way Exercise Calories are determined. I presume it's the same for Garmin, but for FitBit, the Exercise Calories are set automatically with a little text explanation:

"2368 Fitbit Total calories minus 2,290 MyNetDiary Weight Maintenance Calories for 21 hours 2 minutes of the day."

Note the Maintenance Calories are for the exact time of day.

Let me run through an example. If my daily Maintenance Calories are 2400, at 12:00 my Maintenance Calories would show here as 1200. Now, imagine I exercised and burned 200 Calories, FitBit would report 1200+200=1400 "real" calories at 12:00. Exercise Calories are calculated from the difference, so they'd be 200. If I was then very inactive the rest of the day, my Maintenance Calories would still scale up linearly (because they're just an estimate), so at 18:00 this would be 1800, my "real" calories from FitBit would be higher from that exercise earlier, but the inactivity would have eaten into that, so let's say it's 1900. Because the Exercise Calories are the difference, it would now show 100 when it showed 200 earlier. Hence, the Exercise Calories start off large but get eaten away as inactivity eats away at them.

To summarise then, it's basically because Exercise Calories are any extra calories you've burned above the average for that time of day. As the day continues, if you don't continue to burn calories above your estimated rate (based on your Maintenance Calories), those extra calories get eaten away