is my fitbit/ MFP counting my calories twice?

Jennak87
Jennak87 Posts: 112 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I bust my fitbit one out of hibernation the other day and this morning I linked it up with my MFP account. When I logged in earlier, it looked like I had gone way over my calorie allowance as I was inexplicably in the red by about 500 calories. I couldn't understand this because I hadn't over eaten and I went to spin this afternoon and burned 420-odd calories. Turns out it was because I hadn't synced my fitbit yet. So I synced it and now it says I have 350+ extra calories, which I didn't think was right. Here's a screenshot:

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I've logged on to my fitbit account and it looks like my fitbit account has synced with my MFP account and the 2812 calories I've apparently burned according to fitbit seems to include the 420-odd calories I manually logged for my spin class.

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So, I think my fitbit is counting the calories I've burned from walking around PLUS it's syncing with MFP and adding on the calories from my spin class to get 2812 calories burned. Then, MFP is taking this 2812 from fitbit and adding the spin cals AGAIN and going "Oh crap, we better tell her to eat some more calories" and upping my allowance.. Does that make sense?? Does anyone know how I fix this?

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  • YorriaRaine
    YorriaRaine Posts: 370 Member
    As a general rule when syncing fitbit with mfp, you use mfp to log food and fitbit to log exercises. So yes, in this case it looks like it was a double dip a bit. So if you manually add an exercise in you should manually insert it through fitbit not mfp.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    Jennasaur87 wrote: »
    The 2812 calories I've apparently burned according to fitbit seems to include the 420-odd calories I manually logged for my spin class.

    When you log exercise in MFP, you're asked for the start & end times and your Fitbit burn gets overwritten during that time. So you never "double dip" your calories.

    If you're that worried, log your exercise in Fitbit rather than MFP. That's what I do. If you want your Fitbit exercise to appear in your feed, post a status update.

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