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Scooby or fitbit?

Cc215
Cc215 Posts: 228 Member
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Hi

I'm pretty sure I know the answer - but want to check. I've been wearing a fitbit for a few months now - so have a good idea what it says my average burn is. Scooby comes in lower than this (just under 100 calories a day).

I'm thinking that as fitbit has been tracking my movement for the last few months I should start with it's burn for my calculations - am I right with this one?

Thanks

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  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Correct.

    One caveat though.

    Are you correcting ALL non-step based exercise so Fitbit is actually reporting a more accurate TDEE figure?
    Obviously swimming, but also rowing, biking, lifting, elliptical, steep incline walking/running - all need manual entries to replace the usually badly underestimated calorie burn Fitbit sees for the time.

    If you do have those workouts and you have not been correcting, your TDEE is even higher.
    So you can't take a reasonable deficit if you are starting with an underestimated TDEE already causing a deficit.

    And yes, the infinite TDEE levels Fitbit gives is better than your guess from 5 rough levels that only speak to exercise not even daily life.
  • Cc215
    Cc215 Posts: 228 Member
    Great - thanks Haybales.

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