Negative Logging - Help

xXBabyBelleXx

Hi,

I'm a new person to Fitbit also, this is my second day owning a Charge :-)

I think im finally starting to understand the dashboard but Im still confused about negative logging.

I understand why its being done, but does MFP finally even out and stop logging negitive numbers when it starts to agree with Fitbit - ie i've reached the exercise target set by MFP?

Also sorry if this is a silly question, but should I go by Fitbit dashboard to know how much I should be aiming to eat?

Thanks :-)

Ps I am logging food and exercise via MFP

editorgrrl

At first, your adjustments are wonky. They get better & better—as if the system is "learning" your routine. So be patient.

Your MFP calorie goal is your activity level minus your deficit. Then you log exercise & "earn" more calories. Your Fitbit burn is your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure). When you connect your accounts, MFP compares your Fitbit burn to your activity level and adjusts your calories accordingly.

If you disable negative calorie adjustments, you won't eat at a deficit whenever you're less active than your activity level.

You'll get fewer negative calorie adjustments if you set your MFP activity level to sedentary.

editorgrrl

Follow your MFP calorie goal, eating back your adjustments. Ignore Fitbit's calorie goal.

Do not log any step-based activity. Fitbit's already tracking it for you.

Log non-step exercise (like swimming or biking) either in Fitbit or in MFP—never both. Exercise syncs both ways.

Food & drink (including water) only sync one way—from MFP to Fitbit.

heybales

xXBabyBelleXx wrote: »

Hi,

I'm a new person to Fitbit also, this is my second day owning a Charge :-)

I think im finally starting to understand the dashboard but Im still confused about negative logging.

I understand why its being done, but does MFP finally even out and stop logging negitive numbers when it starts to agree with Fitbit - ie i've reached the exercise target set by MFP?

Also sorry if this is a silly question, but should I go by Fitbit dashboard to know how much I should be aiming to eat?

Thanks :-)

Ps I am logging food and exercise via MFP

To add, the exercise "target" is your self-selected goal during setup.

That exercise goal has no bearing at all with the math for your eating level goal.

Vast majority don't even notice in the Exercise Diary the rather simplistic exercise goals showing there.
And the Fitbit adjustments don't effect the minutes goal, only the calories goal.
Which is actually a big assumption, because the Fitbit adjustments could have nothing to do with exercise, and merely be increased activity of life over what you estimated in MFP by picking perhaps sedentary, which may not be true at all and wrong option.

T1DCarnivoreRunner

I suggest using Sedentary if you will turn on negative calorie adjustments, for reasons already discussed.

Also, you can log step-based activity aside from the Fitbit. I've often used Runkeeper for walking or hiking, and MFP is smart enough to know that Fitbit and Runkeeper are duplicating, so Fitbit calorie adjustment is updated for hiking/walking/running calories.