Fit Bit One linking with MFP

push4ward

Need some help please. I am not understanding why my FitBIt is deducting calories burned from MFP when linked together.

Example a 45 minute 3 mile WATP video comes up as 405 calories burned in MFP added to that a 15 minute walk on the elliptical with 140 calories burned (taken right from machine) for a total of 545 calories burned - - when my FitBit links in it subtracts 225 calories burned.

Can someone help me to understand. Are the calorie burns so off in MFP that FitBit needs to deduct half or more? I'm so confused. It's also somewhat frustrating when trying to decide how many if any at all exercise calories to eat back.

LivingtheLeanDream

There's a Fitbit group that will answer all your questions. :-)

If you have them linked you don't need to manually add exercise on Mfp.
Also what are you set at on Mfp, sedentary? Lightly active etc? That makes a difference too.
Fitbit estimates your daily burn, so the number will change as the hours in the day go by.


I don't log any exercise at all now, I let fitbit do the work. Mfp is set for me to active.

If I had it at sedentary I'd need to log all activities.

If your new to the gadget it takes a few weeks to adjust to your movements, that's what I found when I changed from the Flex to the One.

Sutnak

Yeah..

if my fitbit says i burned a total of 3000 calories for the day
then i track 350 calories of exercise (at night, after I stop using fitbit)
it says my total daily expenditure is now 2990
TEN LESS than if I didn't exercise

However, if i say i burn 1000 calories, it will actually add 1100 calories on top of the 3000. It makes zero sense.

I went back and forth with Fitbit on this for a month, and they never could grasp the issue.

The way it is SUPPOSED to work, is it removes Fitbit Calories burned during the window of exercise entered on MFP. --That way you aren't double dipping.

IF it was working properly example:

If fitbit thinks you burned 200 calories between 9-10 just by wearing it, then you say you burned 390 calories between 9-10 doing jump rope, Fitbit will redact the 200 calories for 9-10, and go with the 390 calorie figure.