fitbit synching question
sark1971
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Just curious to all fitbit users: Do you sync your fitbit to your mfp$ I walked 10000 steps at work and then 3000 on the treadmill. MFP is now giving me 600 extra calories. Somehow it doesn't seem right. I am set to sedentary and to lose 1 pound per week. Any ideas?
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My fitbit doesn't seem to be syncing automatically, how does this work?0
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Just curious to all fitbit users: Do you sync your fitbit to your mfp$ I walked 10000 steps at work and then 3000 on the treadmill. MFP is now giving me 600 extra calories. Somehow it doesn't seem right. I am set to sedentary and to lose 1 pound per week. Any ideas?
Yes, vast majority do sync. Vast majority also have no experience for calorie burn or daily burning, so the fact it doesn't sound right, don't put too much weight to that. Ha, weight, get it! Anyway....
It gives a much better picture of eating less than you burn.
MFP is making estimate based on your guess of non-exercise activity level.
What if sedentary is no where near correct?
Like 10000 steps at work - that's hardly an honest sedentary - did you select that to be "on the safe side"?
And then what if you don't tell MFP you actually burned more daily in exercise when you did it, to maintain the same deficit for weight loss?
So that 3000 steps on treadmill had an actual calorie burn to it of course.
That 600 calories is NOT just an adjustment for exercise - it's the total difference between what Fitbit saw or you manually corrected for non-step based exercise for the total daily burn, and what MFP thought you'd burn with no exercise based on your selection of activity level, in your case wrong level.
If you think bigger deficit is better, that's how you lose muscle mass as part of your weight, make it harder to lose, easier to gain, harder to adhere and easier to binge, ect - all leading to yo-yo dieting, doing it again next year.
Bigger is not better. You gained it slow, be willing to lose it slow.
At least the 1 lb is reasonable if 25 lbs or less to lose, but you are attempting to make it unreasonable by making it bigger.0 -
It sounds normal to me, 13000 steps for a sedentary person? that's going to give you a ton of extra calories for the day. I'm sedentary and I'm lucky if I do over 3000 steps in a day.0
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