Edit Calorie Goals

lj50 said:

No, it doesn’t take into account the individual’s characteristics or trend.

It does. Just change your weight, or the other values (gender, height, age, activity class), and you'll see the Resting Calories value will change accordingly.

lj50 said:

as my weight has been stable, it must clearly be 3,500 or I would be adding weight?

As I already wrote:

More likely is that either the Calories intake is not accurate, or that the calculation of active Calories does not match - that could be especially the case if you did not set the adequate Activity Class in your user settings, or if you do not wear the watch 24 hours a day.

So you agree they are using a generic RMR that only changes based on those factors, but not observed individual trends, correct?

The calorie intake is correct, and even if it is not, then a correct calculation of Total Calories ("TDEE") would take into account those incorrect intake values, and still recalculate my average Total Calories as 3,500 based on the fact that's what I have input as intake and my weight is unchanged... That's how TDEE works. If it works simply by selecting a "class" then it's flawed to the the point of uselessness. If I ate according to Garmin's calculation then I would be under-eating, losing weight and performance.

lj50 said:

RMR that only changes based on those factors, but not observed individual trends, correct

It depends what you mean by individual trends. If you mean the changes of weight, then it does take it in account. NEAT is taken in account, if you enter correctly your Activity Class, and wear the watch 24 hours a day - the higher metabolic rate due to post-exercise burn, will be then measured and shown as Active Calories.

If the total Calories burned in the day do not match the reality, better than changing the goal, is fixing the Active Calories amount. If using the right Activity Class in User Settings and wearing the watch 24 hr/day does not help, simply add a manual custom activity (you can call it Calories Adjustment, or NEAT, or whatever else) and set the extra burned calories in it adequately. 

Still no solution to this? 6 years later and I cant adjust that goal? Also linked with MFP and showing and adjusted goal of 0. 1700 calories under my RMR is not very likely. 

Raab said:

Still no solution to this?

You can adjust the Calories Goal in your MyFitnessPal account. See the section Goals in the top menu

That goal has been set. And the watch/garmin app show they are synced to MFP, yet still shows the goal as zero.

I signed up to mfp yesterday and both garmin and mfp showing as synced however my calorie goal is 0. I have disconnected/reconnected mfp. Clicked sync now on today garmin connect web and calorie goal remains 0. Very frustrating. Anything else i should try?