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

ffbrown25

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?

editorgrrl

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_settings

ffbrown25

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.

Thanks!