please help me overcome this confusion

aniqa109
aniqa109 Posts: 364 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
hiii
i keep posting on here but struggling to make sense of things. ive set mfp to sedentary.fitbit gave me 1000 calories today and ive walked 19,433 steps is this right??i dont know which number to use ..this under armour number??or fitbit calorie adjustment??

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  • yogacat13
    yogacat13 Posts: 124 Member
    It sounds like a fitbit calorie adjustment. At 19,000+ steps, you are not sedentary. Sedentary is <5,000 steps/day.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    Connect your accounts at http://www.myfitnesspal.com/fitbit

    Set your goal to .5 lb. per week 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

    In the MFP app, go to More > Steps and choose Fitbit.

    Ignore your Fitbit calorie goal and follow MFP's, eating back your adjustments. No need to log any step-based activity—your Fitbit is tracking it for you. Log non-step exercise (like swimming or biking) either in Fitbit or in MFP—never both. Exercise logged in MFP overwrites your Fitbit burn during that time.

    You can learn more in the Fitbit Users group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users
  • aniqa109
    aniqa109 Posts: 364 Member
    i read so many things hence im confused.someone wrote in another post that you should set mfp to sedentary n then eat back exercise calories. i easily get 10,000 steps a day as i walk a lot. but not everyday is 19000 steps. if i set myself to active will these steps and exercise be included in the calorie goal.i just need someone to clearly tell me what amount of calories i should eat!!ive been inconsistent with logging before but im getting serious now with weiging and logging just want to do it right!
  • rune1990
    rune1990 Posts: 543 Member
    editorgrrl wrote: »
    Connect your accounts at http://www.myfitnesspal.com/fitbit

    Set your goal to .5 lb. per week 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

    In the MFP app, go to More > Steps and choose Fitbit.

    Ignore your Fitbit calorie goal and follow MFP's, eating back your adjustments. No need to log any step-based activity—your Fitbit is tracking it for you. Log non-step exercise (like swimming or biking) either in Fitbit or in MFP—never both. Exercise logged in MFP overwrites your Fitbit burn during that time.

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

    Do what editorgrrl says, and the bold is how much to eat.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    If (and only if) you enable negative calorie adjustments, choosing an activity level is a matter of personal preference. At lightly active, you start with more calories in the morning but get smaller adjustments.

    If you follow the directions I posted upthread, MFP will adjust your calorie goal every day to TDEE minus an appropriate deficit for your size.
    aniqa109 wrote: »
    l've been inconsistent with logging before but im getting serious now with weiging and logging just want to do it right!

    Exercise for fitness; log to lose weight. Learn to log everything you eat & drink accurately & honestly. Logging works.
  • aniqa109
    aniqa109 Posts: 364 Member
    ok thankyou i will go ahead n adjust some settings and see if i can make sense of it lol
  • aniqa109
    aniqa109 Posts: 364 Member
    by the way is dancing or aerobic exercise classed as step based so i dont need 2 log it?
  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    aniqa109 wrote: »
    by the way is dancing or aerobic exercise classed as step based so i dont need 2 log it?

    I never need to log dancing. The fitbit tracks it pretty well.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    Did you wear your fitbit during the aerobic exercise?
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    aniqa109 wrote: »
    Is dancing or aerobic exercise classed as step based so i dont need 2 log it?

    I wouldn't log it. And I log exercise in Fitbit—never MFP.

    It'll take trial & error to find what you prefer.
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    Don't know about under armor, but if you're walking 20k steps a day you are very active, not sedentary. Your MFP calorie goal is based on activity level. So if you're moving a lot more then you're burning a lot more. And can therefore eat more.
    aniqa109 wrote: »
    hiii
    i keep posting on here but struggling to make sense of things. ive set mfp to sedentary.fitbit gave me 1000 calories today and ive walked 19,433 steps is this right??i dont know which number to use ..this under armour number??or fitbit calorie adjustment??

  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    Dancing would be 'step based' because you're moving by foot. Swimming or riding a bike: not step based. For activities like those, you'd note your start/stop time and log.
  • aniqa109
    aniqa109 Posts: 364 Member
    thankyouuu sooo much. i think ive understood it.yes i set timer on fitbit at the start of class n end but i was then logging it under dancing in mfp so i wont do that now.im short though 4"11 so i thought maybe the calories are too high for me.although i walk a lot i think my body may have adjusted so i thought i wouldnt earn extra calories as i do school run n shop run etc n i dont drive. ive hd fitbit a few days so il just keep logging n do maths n see how much i lose to see if im doing it right!
  • charlieandcarol
    charlieandcarol Posts: 302 Member
    aniqa109 wrote: »
    thankyouuu sooo much. i think ive understood it.yes i set timer on fitbit at the start of class n end but i was then logging it under dancing in mfp so i wont do that now.im short though 4"11 so i thought maybe the calories are too high for me.although i walk a lot i think my body may have adjusted so i thought i wouldnt earn extra calories as i do school run n shop run etc n i dont drive. ive hd fitbit a few days so il just keep logging n do maths n see how much i lose to see if im doing it right!

    You were double logging your exercise, that's why you were ending up with big numbers!

    If I do anything other than step based activity, I log it in Fitbit (Fitbit then overwrites the activity it had automatically assigned for that time).

    I log food in My Fitness Pal (MFP and I think what you mean by Under Armour) and work with the MFP allocation of food calories.

    Seems to work,

    Good Luck
  • minties82
    minties82 Posts: 907 Member
    aniqa109 wrote: »
    thankyouuu sooo much. i think ive understood it.yes i set timer on fitbit at the start of class n end but i was then logging it under dancing in mfp so i wont do that now.im short though 4"11 so i thought maybe the calories are too high for me.although i walk a lot i think my body may have adjusted so i thought i wouldnt earn extra calories as i do school run n shop run etc n i dont drive. ive hd fitbit a few days so il just keep logging n do maths n see how much i lose to see if im doing it right!

    I'm 4'11" also, and fitbit often gives me an extra 1000kcal+ to eat per day. I have no problem losing weight when following it's recommendations.
  • aniqa109
    aniqa109 Posts: 364 Member
    i didnt log exercises yesterday but still under armour fitbit gave like 2800 calories and mfp gave over 2000 and then at the bottom theres a box thts sayinh fitbit calorie adjustment...you.know if u click on exercise it shows fitbit n theres a i next to it wen i click on that theres a box with 3 things written..fitbit daily something....mfp calorie goal...n then fitbit adjustment...thts wat confuses me..can anyone check in my diary for me
  • jdleanna
    jdleanna Posts: 141 Member
    edited September 2015
    Do not pay any attention to the calories in your fitbit app. Use fitbit to log your (non-step) exercise. Come look at this app, MFP, to get your calories to eat. MFP will add in the calories you earn from your fitbit. So, yesterday, MFP said you could eat 1700 calories, plus it looked at your activity from fitbit and said you earned another several hundred in exercise calories (I forget the exact numbers already. ..I think it was about 600). That is the fitbit adjustment you see at the bottom of your diary, and at the top under "exercise." That means you could eat 1700 calories plus some or all of the 600 exercise calories, for a total of 2300 calories total.

    Now, usually people should eat ALL of the "base" calories (for you, the 1700) and then about half or maybe 75% of the exercise calories. So yesterday you should have eaten about 2000 calories total.
  • aniqa109
    aniqa109 Posts: 364 Member
    thankyou jdleanna!! finally you put it in simple terms i understand!!! thankyouuuuuuuuuu
  • ColinsMommaOC
    ColinsMommaOC Posts: 296 Member
    The Under Armour App ( if you use MapMyFitness or any of their Map Apps) will automatically link itself to MFP. I had to deactivate MapMyFitness because it kept messing up my adjustments. If you use one of the Under Armour apps to track your activity, then perhaps you are double logging it?
  • aniqa109
    aniqa109 Posts: 364 Member
    im not using mapmyfitness.i deleted that App.
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