Even my fitbit is starting to agree, I need to eat a lot of food

FIT_Goat

I'm back to work. And according to my fitbit, I averaged over 2,990 calories a day Monday through Friday. Guess I should be eating more, because my fitbit is normally off by several hundred calories (tells me I burn 2200-2400 when I am closer to needing 2700 to be weight stable).

I still think it over-estimates calories from activity. All this really says is that I am on my feet too much at work.

KittensMaster

I have concluded I just burn fewer calories than most people in my activity range and age

I always get exaggerated calorie amounts

FIT_Goat

I tend to get under-estimates from most things. Even the fitbit gives me lower numbers than I actually end up needing.

But, it gives just insane amounts for what little activity I do. If I don't wear the fitbit, it says I need 1,730 calories a day (assuming I am lying in bed). But, simply walking around and being on my feet drives that up to almost 3,000? I'm not even out running or exercising to any real degree.

sweetteadrinker2

Maybe it factors in the calories burned dealing with kids? :P

pondsbb

I was getting insane calorie adjustments with my fitbit until I made sure my time zones were in sync and I enabled negative adjustments. Then it straightened out for me.

I found the info on how to adjust it in the fitbit group.

Not saying that is what you need but if anyone does feel their calorie adjustments are off they should check out that group.

FIT_Goat

Nope. My time zone and physical stats are all correct. It just thinks walking and being up burns a lot. A while ago, I synced it up so the calories on here and there were the same.

chloexoxmae

I just got a fitbit for my birthday and I don't really trust it, considering when I looked at it this morning it said I had taken 200 steps before I had even been out of bed.

vikashsinha

My Fitbit adjusts for around 300-300 KCal if I walk 10000 steps. Make sure you chose your life style as sedentary in mfp, even if you are running daily as I am. And then enable calorie adjustment in mfp

pondsbb

chloexoxmae wrote: »

I just got a fitbit for my birthday and I don't really trust it, considering when I looked at it this morning it said I had taken 200 steps before I had even been out of bed.

I haven't had that problem as I count my first steps downstairs in the morning and it is on track.

Are you certain you have your time zones in sync?
: here are links to adjust zones http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/timezone https://www.fitbit.com/user/profile/edit

Link to
Enable negative calorie adjustments: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

Like I said that is what straightened mine out.
If that doesn't help then it is fodder for someone more knowledgeable.

FIT_Goat

vikashsinha wrote: »

My Fitbit adjusts for around 300-300 KCal if I walk 10000 steps. Make sure you chose your life style as sedentary in mfp, even if you are running daily as I am. And then enable calorie adjustment in mfp

I don't actually count calories. So, what MFP says I can eat or not is really not a concern for me. I just find that the difference in calories it gives when I do nothing and when I do even a little is too extreme. There is no way I burn what they think I do.

kirkor

You said elsewhere you'd gained weight over the summer though, ya?

FIT_Goat

Yep, like a kg. Nothing major though. It comes back off easily enough with the school year. That isn't really an exercise thing, so much as a dairy thing. I eat more dairy in the summer (cheese mostly). That always causes a gain.

While working I end up eating more total calories, because I go back to three meals a day from one or two.

totaloblivia

chloexoxmae wrote: »

I just got a fitbit for my birthday and I don't really trust it, considering when I looked at it this morning it said I had taken 200 steps before I had even been out of bed.

Hope this isn't offensive....horizontal jogging maybe?

wabmester

Thanks, @totaloblivia! I was going nuts trying to suppress my theories about that one.

FIT_Goat

My main point is that I need about 2,800 calories on my fairly inactive days, although my fitbit usually says 2,200 or less. On my fairly active work days, it's more like 3,200 but my fitbit will say like 3,400 (which is probably untrue). There might be some truth to it because I'll likely lose a little weight eating around 3,000 calories for the first few weeks of school. But, the increase the fitbit has is not nearly as much as the real increase.

It's all a flawed system anyway. But, I do enjoy the high numbers. Today I did walk almost 22,000 steps.

FYI: Anyone who hasn't already joined, we do have a "LCD Activity Trackers" group for those of us with fitbits and stuff. You can join the group on the fitbit website and see how you compare with everyone.

Link: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/105163-low-carber-daily-activity-trackers

krazyforyou

Hell Goat as a nurse I walk 45,000 steps in 2 days. So in theory I could have all the ice cream I want.

FIT_Goat

I've done 45k in the last two days. Where is my ice cream?

But, that's also my point. The exercise calories my fitbit wants to give me are insane. Apparently, today I can eat 3,500 calories and lose weight. Maybe. I certainly can eat a lot without gaining. I'm not sure I could eat 3,500 (def. not 3,500 worth of ice cream) though.

I haven't counted, exactly. But, I have had:

~ 2/3rds of a pound of ground beef
~ 5.2 oz of cheese
~ 6 oz of pork rinds with skin/fat
~ 4 strips of bacon
~ 4 fried chicken livers (fried in bacon grease)
~ 1 lb of ribeye (actually eating this now)
~ 3.5 oz of chicken breast

I have no idea what those calories work out to be. I know it works out to be delicious.

I put this into my food log. It's about 3,900 calories. LOL... so maybe I do eat a bit more when working than I even account for. Edit: I didn't even include the bacon strips! But, I'm not going to bother now. They were a garnish anyway, and everyone knows that calories in garnishes don't count.

vikashsinha

try wearing someone else's fitbit for a day. My brother in law and I vacationed togther recently. we walked the same places, went for running together, but he was always behind me in terms of number of steps. So much so that he da

vikashsinha

so much so that he dumped his fitbit HR and bought a new fitbit surge