read the FAQs a few times and need some help still.
fishshark
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Hey everyone I recently just got the Charge HR and I have a few questions. My BMR is 1400 and maintenance is about 1900 making my calorie deficit 1500 is. I try to stick to 1300 because that is my TDEE based on sedentary of exorcize (I'm on an online masters program and I really am sedentary most of the day) and the 1500 is if i get more fitness in. It seems like at the end of the day FitBit is changing my calories on MFP to like 1700-1900 and I just want to make sure I have it all set up right. Do I always eat whatever Fitbit changes on MFP since it knows better then i do? Also am I supposed to wear it ALL the time all day so its more accurate? Sorry I felt like I got MFP down and now Fitbit it springing me for a loop lol. I don't log my exorcize into MFP and Fitbit still adjusts my calories. I just don't want to eat to much/little. Also, sorry I am 5'3 134 pounds with a pretty high BF%. Thanks to everyone who has probably been asked these questions a billion times. I read the FAQs but a bit confused thanks!
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Take your Fitbit Charge HR off to shower, swim or charge.
Enable negative calorie adjustments: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
Set your goal to .5 lb. for every 25 lbs. you're overweight: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided
Follow your MFP calorie goal, eating back your adjustments. Your Fitbit burn is your maintenance calories (TDEE). If you follow these instructions, you'll be eating TDEE minus a reasonable deficit.0 -
editorgrrl wrote: »Take your Fitbit Charge HR off to shower, swim or charge.
Enable negative calorie adjustments: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
Set your goal to .5 lb. for every 25 lbs. you're overweight: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided
Follow your MFP calorie goal, eating back your adjustments. Your Fitbit burn is your maintenance calories (TDEE). If you follow these instructions, you'll be eating TDEE minus a reasonable deficit.
thank you I just wasn't sure if Fitbit was allowing me to many calories... not that i am complaining haha!0 -
I was shocked how many calories Fitbit was telling me to eat—but I lost the weight & have maintained for a year.
Trust your Fitbit for several weeks, then reevaluate your progress.0 -
editorgrrl wrote: »I was shocked how many calories Fitbit was telling me to eat—but I lost the weight & have maintained for a year.
Trust your Fitbit for several weeks, then reevaluate your progress.
Yep, same here. I eventually had to bite the bullet and trust what fitbit was telling me. Thankfully it worked out pretty accurately for me.
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Hey everyone I recently just got the Charge HR and I have a few questions. My BMR is 1400 and maintenance is about 1900 making my calorie deficit 1500 is. I try to stick to 1300 because that is my TDEE based on sedentary of exorcize (I'm on an online masters program and I really am sedentary most of the day) and the 1500 is if i get more fitness in. It seems like at the end of the day FitBit is changing my calories on MFP to like 1700-1900 and I just want to make sure I have it all set up right. Do I always eat whatever Fitbit changes on MFP since it knows better then i do? Also am I supposed to wear it ALL the time all day so its more accurate? Sorry I felt like I got MFP down and now Fitbit it springing me for a loop lol. I don't log my exorcize into MFP and Fitbit still adjusts my calories. I just don't want to eat to much/little. Also, sorry I am 5'3 134 pounds with a pretty high BF%. Thanks to everyone who has probably been asked these questions a billion times. I read the FAQs but a bit confused thanks!
If your BMR is 1400 - then it is impossible for your sedentary TDEE to be 1300.
You need to stop the manual eating goal - Fitbit will indeed mess it up.
If you wanted more accuracy for helping with weight loss - shouldn't have gotten it then - it's trying to tell you your estimate of what you burn are incorrect, MFP is trying to correct that.
Fitbit doesn't change MFP, MFP is changing itself based on what Fitbit reports as daily burn, through the day.
So if MFP estimated prior to Fitbit your daily burn was 1900.
And you are getting calorie adjustments based on Fitbit of about 400-500 more - it means your selection of activity level on MFP was wrong - you are not Sedentary at all.
MFP is correcting itself that you burn 2300-2400 actually, according to what Fitbit is reporting.
You even looked at your Fitbit daily burn, like on non-exercise day?
Follow the program for better results, reset your MFP profile to lose 1 lb weekly, or perhaps 1/2 lb is more wise now.
Leave the eating goal alone.
Left MFP correct it's initial estimate of daily burn with whatever Fitbit reports.
That means you MEET your eating goal. A goal is something to reach, not to purposely miss. You willing to miss goal weight by 20% and say that's close enough?0
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