Suggested daily caloric intake is much different in FitBit than in MFP?
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ffbrown25
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Hi! Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere!
I just bought a FitBit Charge HR yesterday. I have the same goal in MFP as in FitBit, which is to lose about .5 lbs a week. Before today's exercise, MFP suggested I eat 1855 calories - that number changed to 2334 after exercise. FitBit is suggesting I eat 2012 calories today (of course it knows about my exercise, and I didn't think to see what it suggested before I exercised
). Normally on days with heavy exercise (today it was CrossFit HIIT), I'd eat a couple hundred calories over 1855. So something like 2050 on a day like today. My FitBit and MFP are connected, with negative adjustments enabled, if that matters.
My question is which calorie intake suggestion should I take in order to meet my goal? Should I continue to do what I'm doing, adding a couple hundred calories to MFP's baseline goal on days with heavy exercise? That seems roughly what FitBit is doing for me (right?). What do you guys think?
I just bought a FitBit Charge HR yesterday. I have the same goal in MFP as in FitBit, which is to lose about .5 lbs a week. Before today's exercise, MFP suggested I eat 1855 calories - that number changed to 2334 after exercise. FitBit is suggesting I eat 2012 calories today (of course it knows about my exercise, and I didn't think to see what it suggested before I exercised
). Normally on days with heavy exercise (today it was CrossFit HIIT), I'd eat a couple hundred calories over 1855. So something like 2050 on a day like today. My FitBit and MFP are connected, with negative adjustments enabled, if that matters.My question is which calorie intake suggestion should I take in order to meet my goal? Should I continue to do what I'm doing, adding a couple hundred calories to MFP's baseline goal on days with heavy exercise? That seems roughly what FitBit is doing for me (right?). What do you guys think?
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Fitbit prorates your calories by time of day—and goes way below 1,200. Ignore it & follow your MFP goal, eating back your adjustments.
Connect your accounts at http://www.myfitnesspal.com/fitbit
Set your goal to .5 lb. for every 25 lbs. you're overweight: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided
Enable negative calorie adjustments: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings0 -
editorgrrl wrote: »Fitbit prorates your calories by time of day—and goes way below 1,200. Ignore it & follow your MFP goal, eating back your adjustments.
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