Fitbit horror!!
fidangul
Posts: 673 Member
Hello
I've just purchased a fitbit charge hr today. Ive synced it to mfp and enabled calorie adjustment. But since then I'm having problems.
At first it didn't show any calories plus or minus. Then On the fitbit app, I added the mobile tracker to it thinking that its connecting my phone to it. And then it, let alone showing any of the calories earned from fitbit, it minused the burned amount of calories twice.
I'm going crazy. Please help me. And I apologise for my poor explanation. I'm literally confused.
I've just purchased a fitbit charge hr today. Ive synced it to mfp and enabled calorie adjustment. But since then I'm having problems.
At first it didn't show any calories plus or minus. Then On the fitbit app, I added the mobile tracker to it thinking that its connecting my phone to it. And then it, let alone showing any of the calories earned from fitbit, it minused the burned amount of calories twice.
I'm going crazy. Please help me. And I apologise for my poor explanation. I'm literally confused.
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The first day is always way off. It takes it a couple of weeks to get to know you. Just eat what you'd usually eat in MFP, and join the Fitbit users group to learn more.0
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I'm confused too lol
Have you checked out our fitbit group? They also have a great FAQ section, with a lot of trouble shooting advice.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users0 -
Thanyou both!!!!
I thought I had joined the group.
Do you think I should stick with it or return it. Is it a common thing to happen.0 -
For every step I'm taking fitbit is continually deducting calories
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It just takes a little time for it to get to know you. The first few days just aim for the calorie goal you have been used to eating until it has some time to adjust to your particular rhythms.0
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Thanyou both!!!!
I thought I had joined the group.
Do you think I should stick with it or return it. Is it a common thing to happen.
Your first day with a new technology is confusing, so you want to return it?
In my opinion, check out the group, read up on how it works and how you can use it. Give yourself some time to adapt to using it, and learn about it's features. Maybe unlink if from MFP for a week or so, until you adapt.
I have the Zip, and have it linked here. Log all my exercise through FitBit, and all my food through here. It is working really well. But it took some time to figure out what I was doing with it.
You can do it! Read about it and tinker.0 -
I have the Charge HR and think it's awesome! It took about two weeks to get to know me, and it was well worth the wait.
So much lovely data!0 -
So this is normal is what I'm understanding from the posts????0
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Yes, this is normal. The second day will be a lot more accurate, but the first day is crazy.0
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There's a whole bunch of really good info in the Fitbit group
Sometimes syncing is a little wonky. You really need to read the big FAQ post to have a good understanding of what's going on. Read the first two posts twice and you should have a much better understanding.
This is the post: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy/p1
The first day is going to be all out of whack because your Fitbit tracks things in 24-hour chunks starting at midnight. So, unless you activated your tracker around midnight, it will give you a bogus burn and step count for today.
Give it a month to get to know you. Read that FAQ post. It should get quite a bit better.
~Lyssa0 -
Thankyou all so so so much. As you can tell I'm no good with technology. I'll be reading up on it a little more and fingers crossed it turns out alright.0
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nutmegoreo wrote: »
Yep, I'd be lost without my fitbit! Best $80 I ever spent. I'm walking as I'm typing this
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christinev297 wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »
Yep, I'd be lost without my fitbit! Best $80 I ever spent. I'm walking as I'm typing this
As long as you aren't walking in traffic!
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I've had mine since april and i dont feel my fitbit has taken the time to get tot know me at all..sniff.
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You can disable the calorie changing in settings I believe.0
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I've had mine for a while. Best investment I've made. Took a few days to really get it to know me and me to know how to work it. I use the Fitbit app for weight and exercise and mfp for foods. I also have the charge. Don't get discouraged it's only your first day and honestly, if you get discouraged that quickly you aren't going to get anywhere. Good luck and make sure to check out the group!0
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I purchased a fitbit thinking it'll motivate me through the last part of my weightloss and then to keep me on track whilst maintaining. But my first day hasn't gone down well. I woke up this morning with a huge minus number on mfp. I'm not quite sure what's going. However, on the fitbit app it is giving me extra calories burned.0
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I purchased a fitbit thinking it'll motivate me through the last part of my weightloss and then to keep me on track whilst maintaining. But my first day hasn't gone down well. I woke up this morning with a huge minus number on mfp. I'm not quite sure what's going. However, on the fitbit app it is giving me extra calories burned.
that's because you haven't done any walking yet. You burn calories at all times even when sleeping and the Fitbit accounts for those and you start the day negative (at least I always did) but as soon as you get moving it starts to even out... Did you read any of the information at the links everyone provided? I know for a fact that this very issue is addressed. It is also addressed in the FAQ section at Fitbit's site. Seriously if you're just going to freak out and you're not going to read and absorb the information provided then maybe it isn't the right tool for you. Please know that I'm not trying to be a jacka$$ - but if the technology is going to throw you to the point you seem to be at now, it might be best to either find something else or just do it the "old fashioned" way
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I purchased a fitbit thinking it'll motivate me through the last part of my weightloss and then to keep me on track whilst maintaining. But my first day hasn't gone down well. I woke up this morning with a huge minus number on mfp. I'm not quite sure what's going. However, on the fitbit app it is giving me extra calories burned.
that's because you haven't done any walking yet. You burn calories at all times even when sleeping and the Fitbit accounts for those and you start the day negative (at least I always did) but as soon as you get moving it starts to even out... Did you read any of the information at the links everyone provided? I know for a fact that this very issue is addressed. It is also addressed in the FAQ section at Fitbit's site. Seriously if you're just going to freak out and you're not going to read and absorb the information provided then maybe it isn't the right tool for you. Please know that I'm not trying to be a jacka$$ - but if the technology is going to throw you to the point you seem to be at now, it might be best to either find something else or just do it the "old fashioned" way
Agree wholeheartedly with this. You have been provided with a lot of information and resources yet still freaked out this morning so you didn't review anything or give it a chance. You're always burning calories and Fitbit is accounting for that. I was up with 680 roughly burned already and I'm not out of bed yet. Read the information or save your money and take it back if your not going to actually learn about what it's doing.0 -
I think I'm making friends with fitbit. It's gonna take some time getting used to. Even though that I read the above articles and more, I think that I panicked a little. Silly I know!
@phrick I have read through lots of articles, that doesn't necessarily mean that I would "get it" on the first go. However, like you say technology can throw me a little. But I'm getting the hang of it and re-reading a few articles that I found helpful.
@craziedani I am trying to learn Thankyou and yes a refund could be an option it says so on my receipt. Great for you that you took to it well from the very start.
Thanks again to everyone. And apologies for those who think I wasted the communities space.0 -
Aww, man. I was thinking I was coming into a thread where a fitbit ate someone's arm off or something. Just kidding. I hope to get one of these one day, but for the moment, they're above my budget's ability to purchase. 0
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Enabling negative calorie adjustments like you said you did in the OP is why you started the day in a negative. This is correct.
That's because your MFP calorie limit already assumes you're going to do a certain number of steps per day according to your Activity Level (I have mine set to sedentary, about 5000 steps).
So when you wake up, you haven't done those steps yet, so MFP doesn't give you those calories yet. As the day goes on you will easily get them back. But the system is there in case of inactive days so you don't overeat.
Hope this helps.0 -
I wake up over 100 calories in the negative every single day. It doesn't take long to get it back to positive adjustments.0
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I always wake up to a negative adjustment.
Your not very active while asleep are you? So it's basically as if you sat in front of the TV for 6 hours when you wake up.
Then as you get on with your day it should become more and more accurate.
Give it a few days, I was confused by my Fitbit at first too.0 -
@fidangul you got this! Not a waste of space you just have to adapt to new things lol. "Don't freak out, don't freak out". Lol0
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Trust me.. I freaked out big time trying to understand the numbers and how fitbit works when I first got it. I think there's quite a few threads floating around that I started with my millions of questions
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Today was brilliant! I guess the first days issue was that my fitbit-day started 8pm in the evening (that's when I set it up) so the device assumed that I was dead untill that time. I think anyway Haha.0
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There is also a glitch in the app, that they are aware of, where it records activities 2x if you enter manually enter them.
Until they fix it, I only enter stuff on the PC and let it synce to the app.0
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