Can someone please tell me how the calorie count on the vivofit works. Today my steps so far are 3463 but I have managed to burn 940 calories. MFP isn't synching again with my vivofit. I have been very confused with calorie counting between my vivofit & MFP. Nothing seems to marry up. Can someone explain to me how it all works because there doesn't seem to be any information anyway explaining what all the graphs etc mean.
I know it includes your BMR. I'm not sure how they come up with that though. I emailed to ask about it, but they wouldn't tell me if their calculation accounted for some base activity or not. Anyway the break down is: BMR + Daily Activity through Steps + Activity Logs with HRM (or manually logged workouts)
When syncing to MFP:
MFP calculates your BMR and then multiplies it by a number depending on the activity level you selected when you set up the account. So for example: My BMR : 1472 Sedentary Activity level : x1.23 MFP estimated calories burned without exercise : 1810 When you log exercise on MFP it adds to that number (when working properly Garmin Connect will send activities logged here to the MFP exercise diary). So say I logged 200 calories burned. MFP now thinks I've burned roughly 2010 calories.
Now Garmin Connect says, well with your exercise and daily activity you burned approx 2400. So know you have: 2400 (Garmin Connect) - 2010 (MFP with exercise) = 390 (Garmin Connect Calorie Adjustment) Your exercise diary in this scenario is going to reflect an additional 390 calories burned as an adjustment. This is given to you only when you burn more than what MFP thought you would. I have my diary set to sedentary and see adjustments like this a lot because I'm not sedentary most days. There are a few days that I am though and I would rather get a positive adjustment for active days than get a negative adjustment on the 1 or 2 days a week when I'm not active.
