Fit Bit-Calories

Fit4LifeAR

Hi everyone! I am sure this has been asked before, but I don't want to search through all of the Fitbit posts. Thank you for any help you can offer, ahead of time!

I purchased a Fitbit and used it for the first time yesterday. I noticed that my exercise calories kept increasing through out the day on MFP and Fitbit, but I don't consider just general walking to be exercise. Basically, I just consider gym time to be exercise calories, and the rest should just be normal daily activity that are already figured in to my calorie goal.

For example, I went to the gym and burned 200 calories yesterday, and then FitBit added another 300 between running errands and shopping. That doesn't seem right to me.Should I be controlling my exercise time in FitBit somehow, so it doesn't add extra calories when my workout is complete, or is that normal?

I hope this makes sense haha....

Chiqui74

The Fitbit counts all the calories that you burn in a 24 hour period, not just the calories you consider to be exercise calories. You burn calories even when not exercising, that's why you wear the Fitbit all day long.

editorgrrl

Your Fitbit burn is TDEE, the calories necessary to maintain your current weight. Your default MFP calorie goal is activity level minus deficit. Adjustments are the difference between your Fitbit burn and your MFP activity level.

If (and only if) you enable negative calorie adjustments in your diary settings, eating back your adjustments means you're eating TDEE minus deficit: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

You can learn more in the Fitbit Users group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users

editorgrrl

Fit4LifeAR wrote: »

I went to the gym and burned 200 calories yesterday, and then FitBit added another 300 between running errands and shopping. That doesn't seem right to me.Should I be controlling my exercise time in FitBit somehow, so it doesn't add extra calories when my workout is complete, or is that normal?

Do not log any step-based activity—your Fitbit is tracking it for you. Log non-step exercise (like swimming or biking) either in Fitbit (that's what I do) or in MFP—never both. Exercise logged in MFP overwrites your Fitbit burn during that time.

If you want your Fitbit exercise to appear in your newsfeed, post a status update.

Fit4LifeAR

Ok folks, I need you to dumb it down for me lol. Why is MFP/FitBit giving me exercise calories when I am not exercising? For example, I logged on this afternoon and have 273 exercise calories. I haven't worked out.

editorgrrl

Fit4LifeAR wrote: »

Ok folks, I need you to dumb it down for me lol. Why is MFP/FitBit giving me exercise calories when I am not exercising? For example, I logged on this afternoon and have 273 exercise calories. I haven't worked out.

Because you've burned 273 calories more than your MFP activity level (sedentary, lightly active, etc.)

Click on the adjustment in your exercise diary to see the math MFP used to calculate it.

thankyou4thevenom

Fit4LifeAR wrote: »

Ok folks, I need you to dumb it down for me lol. Why is MFP/FitBit giving me exercise calories when I am not exercising? For example, I logged on this afternoon and have 273 exercise calories. I haven't worked out.

You're getting calories because your actual daily calorie burn is higher than what MFP thinks it is.
So according to MFP my daily calorie burn is 1730 but with all the walking I do I actually burn 2400 cals just doing daily activity. So FitBit adjusts for this by giving me exercise calories.

To put it another way you're moving more than you think you are just going about your daily routine.

Fit4LifeAR

Ohhh, ok. That is interesting...

Thanks!