Help with MFP and UP jawbone

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Lauracharder
Lauracharder Posts: 141 Member
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I've been on my fitnesspal for awhile but just got a jawbone. I always have my cals set to 1700. Since jawbone automatically updates your burns, what should I have my settings set to--- in MFP and in UP? Help! I'm so confused at this point.

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  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
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    MFP Has a Jawbone UP Bracelet group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/13420-jawbone-up-bracelet

    Connect your accounts: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/apps/show/97

    Do not log any step-based activity. Your UP is already tracking that for you.

    Log non-step exercise (like biking or swimming) in UP or MFP—never both.

    Log food & drink (including water) in MFP.

    Enable negative calorie adjustments: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

    Set your activity level to sedentary: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided & set your goal to .5 lb. per week for each 25 lbs. you need to lose.

    Follow your MFP goal, eating back your UP adjustments. Your UP total burn is your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure). If you eat less than that, you will lose weight.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,150 Member
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    editorgrrl wrote: »
    Enable negative calorie adjustments: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

    Okay what if you don't do this part? I have never eaten back exercise calories anyway, I just like to see them.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    edited December 2014
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    Your default MFP calorie goal is your activity level minus your deficit. When you connect your accounts, MFP compares your UP total burn to your activity level, and adjusts your calories accordingly. If you disable negative calorie adjustments, you won't eat at a deficit on less active days.

    You must eat back your UP calorie adjustments. That's how MFP works. If you follow my instructions, you will be eating TDEE minus an appropriate deficit.

    Edited to add that I lost the weight and have maintained for six months using these settings.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,150 Member
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    editorgrrl wrote: »
    Your default MFP calorie goal is your activity level minus your deficit. When you connect your accounts, MFP compares your UP total burn to your activity level, and adjusts your calories accordingly. If you disable negative calorie adjustments, you won't eat at a deficit on less active days.

    You must eat back your UP calorie adjustments. That's how MFP works. If you follow my instructions, you will be eating TDEE minus an appropriate deficit.

    Edited to add that I lost the weight and have maintained for six months using these settings.
    I have been eating at TDEE -20 already, thus haven't counted exercise calories (or eaten back). This being said, I should STILL enable it?
    OP sorry to hijack you, but rather than PM I figured these answers edits giving would be useful.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    edited December 2014
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    Your UP total burn is your TDEE—way more accurate than whatever online calculator you used. And 20% is way too one-size-fits all.

    Don't take my word for it—follow my instructions for a few weeks, then reevaluate your progress. When I got my UP I was shocked how many calories it gave me. But I lost & have maintained for six months. TDEE by definition is the number of calories at which your weight will stabilize. I'm eating at TDEE.
  • Lauracharder
    Lauracharder Posts: 141 Member
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    Thanks so much!! Exactly the answers I
    Was looking for! :)
  • Lauracharder
    Lauracharder Posts: 141 Member
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    Uhm.... So it says now I can ony eat 1300???!
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    edited December 2014
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    If you followed my instructions exactly, then your calorie goal is the sedentary activity level for your size minus your deficit (250 calories for each 25 lbs. you need to lose).

    Within 20 minutes of syncing your UP to the UP app, MFP will give you a calorie adjustment to make that day's calorie goal TDEE minus your deficit.
  • Lauracharder
    Lauracharder Posts: 141 Member
    edited December 2014
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    Ok I think I understand. 1300+adjustment. I meal prep & pre-log a day ahead of time, will that continue to work?
  • Lauracharder
    Lauracharder Posts: 141 Member
    edited December 2014
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    :)
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
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    Lauracharder wrote: »
    I meal prep & pre-log a day ahead of time, will that continue to work?

    Yep. MFP sends aggregate meal data to UP—not individual foods.

  • Lauracharder
    Lauracharder Posts: 141 Member
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    Ok. New problem lol.
    It says I'm only sleeping 3 hours. I set it to sleep at 11 and wake it up 7am.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
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    It doesn't include times when you're restless: https://jawbone.com/up/faq

    "UP uses Actigraphy to track your sleep, monitoring your micro movements to determine whether you are awake, in light sleep, or in deep sleep."

    Rather than sweating the accuracy, see what insights you can gain over time from your sleep data. What was different about a day before you got a lot of (or very little) deep sleep? And how do you feel the next day?

    Once it has enough data, UP'll start to suggest bedtimes for you. It's called a challenge. There are others for step count, water intake after exercising, fiber intake…

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