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Fitbit exercise adjustment vastly overestimated

dweeben
dweeben Posts: 6 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
MFP's projection of my :) extra calories burned for the day, taking data from my fitbit, is consistently really far off the reality picked up by my fitbit.

For example, my fitbit will say I have burned 1900 in a day, whereas MFP projects I will burn 2300, even at 10pm where I'm clearly not about to burn 500 calories in exercise before midnight.

I wear the fitbit all day every day. I have entered exactly the same weight, height and calorie/weight loss goal into both. Any ideas?? Am I doing something wrong? Do I misunderstand how it works??

Thanks for any help :-)

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  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    You still burn calories while you are sleeping, so maybe that's why they project you'll burn another 500. I'm pretty sure they count a day from when you wake up one day until you wake up the next.
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    Have you checked that the time zones are set to the same one? That is the most likely issue.
  • dweeben
    dweeben Posts: 6 Member
    Thanks CyberTone, I think you were right!
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