Calories

oorie

So i will soon get the fitbit hr charge but i want to know if when i'm at work, i work at a daycare, do those calories burned get added on to the calorie intake of what i eat? For example i burned 300 calories at work and i have eattin 1000 calories and i have 200 left from what i ate does the 300 add on to my 200 and that leaves me 500 to eat. I know i sont lose weight if i eat and lose the same calories but i'm just curious. I hope i explained it right.

krstang89

MFP recommends you eat back 50-75% of calories burned. The calories burned can be a little inflated so be careful about eating them all back as it may ruin your deficit.

Hope that helps!

rileysowner

Your fitbit calculates the calories you burn for the whole day. Just note, from what I have heard it takes several days to learn your patterns so sometimes you will end up with weird calorie numbers. That number of calories the fitbit determines is what you need to eat less than. If you are at 1 pound per week, that would be 500 calories a day less than that daily number. MFP will adjust your calories based on that. So if you set your activity level as sedentary and you are really lightly active, you will get more calories. If, however, your activity level on MFP is set as highly active, and your actual activity is less than that, you will have calories taken away.

For better answers, join the Fitbit Users group here http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users

oorie

Ok so lets say i get the fitbit but i dont connect it to my fitness pal app and just eat the calories that i should would that be better for me since i want to lose weight fast?

ultrahoon

oorie wrote: »

Ok so lets say i get the fitbit but i dont connect it to my fitness pal app and just eat the calories that i should would that be better for me since i want to lose weight fast?

Eating less calories will result in faster weight loss, but faster weight loss isn't always the most sensible plan. Your profile states you have 42lbs to lose, so that would put you roughly in the 1lb per week weight loss category for safe and sustained loss.

I am also a little confused by the question, not sure if I am interpreting what you said correctly (specifically the 'calories that I should' part), but what would be the point of buying a fitbit if you aren't going to use the information you get from it?

oorie

Sorry i'm going to try and explain better.. In the my fitness pal app you can set your phone to track your steps... When i had that setting on it would add more calories for me on my calorie intake.. My first question was since its added does it mean i can eat those calories? My second question was would it be better to just stay in my calorie intake ( i have 1400) and not have those extra calories added would that matter if i did or didnt? The fitbit is to track my steps, my work out and the calories i do burn. I feel that when those calories are added it makes me feel that i worked out for nothing..

BusyRaeNOTBusty

Yes, you can and should eat the extra calories added it. You might lose weight faster if you did not, but that might no be healthy, or sustainable. You might find yourself quitting because it's too hard, or you might gain it all back quickly when you stop because you deprived yourself so much.