Suggested daily caloric intake is much different in FitBit than in MFP?

ffbrown25
ffbrown25 Posts: 110 Member
edited July 2015 in Social Groups
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?

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