Fitbit Calorie Adjustment wrong
cbkm2k12
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Sooo anyone seeing from sometime yesterday (Thu 28th Jan) that the FitBit calorie calculation appears to be somewhat wrong:-
Usually the adjustment tends to be Fitbit - MyFitnessPal = Adjustment which by my reckoning from that image should be 2964 - 2366 = 598.
(Same thing for the projection calculation today but it was fine until at least 20:30 UTC)
Usually the adjustment tends to be Fitbit - MyFitnessPal = Adjustment which by my reckoning from that image should be 2964 - 2366 = 598.
(Same thing for the projection calculation today but it was fine until at least 20:30 UTC)
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...and seems fixed now.0
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I've been having issues with my calorie adjustment, in the opposite direction - but the problem seems to be more on MFP's side - it's showing my estimated daily burn as too high considering my Sedentary settings, which is affecting my calorie adjustment.0
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Yep - it's now doing that to me as well. It did briefly get fixed though.
Now the calculation is technically correct but the numbers don't work out for the daily goal anymore.0 -
Yeah, most days MFP estimates my daily burn, based on my settings, as 1830 or so. Today it's 1980, so my FitBit adjustment is about 150 cals too low. But it keeps changing too, and I can't figure out or where it's pulling that figure from, as my settings and stats are all unchanged.0
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So the funny thing... It looks like it's calculating the correct difference between FitBit and MFP calories and then adding it to MFP calories burned before calculating the adjustment - for example for me at the moment:-
Fitbit : 2688
MFP : 2679
Adjustment: 9
Usually I'd expect to see MFP at 2360-2370 based on the activity settings:-
2679 - 2370 = 309 (which is also pretty much what I'd expect the adjustment to be at this time based on previous days).0 -
Yeah, that's a similar problem - surely the MFP estimate should be static based on your settings, rather than as changeable as it seems to be at the moment.0
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I think they're trying to change something without testing it properly
(It's currently okay for me now - again!)0 -
having a similar issue - MFP not picking up calories burned through fitbit...or it picks them up, then loses them again. so yesterday, I went from a 1000 calorie adjustment (workout, walking, moving boxes) to 0! hoping this isn't permanent as half the advantage of syncing fitbit with MFP is so that I don't have to track these activities manually!0
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having a similar issue - MFP not picking up calories burned through fitbit...or it picks them up, then loses them again. so yesterday, I went from a 1000 calorie adjustment (workout, walking, moving boxes) to 0! hoping this isn't permanent as half the advantage of syncing fitbit with MFP is so that I don't have to track these activities manually!
My yesterday was messed up too (I think when they started trying to make updates) so I added a 1kcal exercise in MFP which made it recalculate (now that the formula is working) so yesterday is correct again for me.0 -
...although now it appears to be wrong again!
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Ugh. Glad I am not the only one. I thought it was odd that when I went to the dojo last night it had me still in the green by 600 and when I got home from 2 hours of aikido it was telling me I was in the red by 500. Then this morning it says I was actually in the green by 2300.....
I sure hope whatever is going on resolves quickly.0 -
having a similar issue - MFP not picking up calories burned through fitbit...or it picks them up, then loses them again. so yesterday, I went from a 1000 calorie adjustment (workout, walking, moving boxes) to 0! hoping this isn't permanent as half the advantage of syncing fitbit with MFP is so that I don't have to track these activities manually!
The same thing is happening to me. SO annoying. Every time I sync my FitBit it updates MFP, and MFP briefly shows the correct calorie adjustment - but then it looses them again within 5 minutes.0 -
I'm having this issue with MFP losing the adjustment after a while, or showing one number and then another next time I refresh or sync - but in my case both figures are wrong because the MFP calorie estimation is wrong! Gah!0
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Well I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. I about had a heart attack at the end of my very active day yesterday and MFP showed I was over my calories by nearly 800. It keeps on bouncing back and forth between correct and incorrect, even when I sync my Fitbit and immediately check MFP.
Whatever it is, I'll be very much thrilled whenever they fix it.0 -
This keeps happening for me too. Suddenly went from big projected deficit (hadn't put dinner in yet so was what I expected) to being negative, still without dinner. Looks even worse now I've put dinner in. Keeps changing though. MFPs burn for me should be 1600 but its been between 2250 and 1738 today. Fitbit figures are showing as expected. Its all too confusing for my addled brain!0
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Same Issue. It's been messed up for two days now. I'm just using the fitbit site until they get this fixed.
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Looks like everybody else is having the same issue. Hopefully MFP is getting this fixed.0
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Same thing happening here. Calories estimated burned for the day on Fitbit are ~2900, but MFP pal as me at -30 calories even though my goal for calories consumed is ~1600 without exercise. I burned 800 calories running this morning according to fitbit.
I've also only consumed about ~300 calories so far today, so I should be around ~2000 more. But MFP has me at only 1200-1300 more. Thats a 700-800 calorie difference from what I am expecting, plus the 500 that MFP already calculates based on your weight loss goal. That's a 1200-1300 calorie deficit instead of the 500 calorie one I'm looking for.0 -
Mine has been all over the place this week as well. Every time I refresh it will swing from big negative adjustments to big positive adjustments.
Tuesday I had 18,471 steps, burned 2219 cals per FitBit, and had 3 separate calorie adjustments. (-337, 337, 337)
Weds I had 13,959 steps, burned 2019 cals, and cal adjustment of 131
Thursday I had 17,982 steps, burned 2222 cals, and had 3 separate calorie adjustments (35, 35, 35)
Today I have 10,464 so far and my adjustment keeps vascillating b/w negative 60 or so and positive 200 every time I refresh.
It's very frustrating. Fortunately I've had the FitBit long enough that I know about what kind of an adjustment I would get based on my activity, so I'm just kind of disregarding the data and eating the way I would normally eat that day.0 -
Yes, it's broken .. as is the 'help' link at the top of the MFP web page (tells me
Sorry, There Was an Error With The Request
The Desk.com support staff has been notified of this error.) (Server error 500)
Why do they mess with it when it is working apparently perfectly before it gets changed (or is it fitbit that changes something?)0 -
For me the calorie adjustments keep going up and down. Sometimes it's correct. Later in the day it goes down, even though I have exercised more. They I sync the fitbit and it goes back up. Then later it goes back down. Up and down all day. I don't have negative calorie adjustments enabled.0
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Mine has been messed up since the last update. I sent several emails, and all I get is to disconnect and reconnect. It has gotten much worse in the last two days. It continues to add adjustments and now it is making negatives and taking away. I am so frustrated with MFP and fitbit. IF I look back at my net calories, it looks like I did not even eat some days and over ate on others.0
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Glad I'm not the only one, I logged into this group today just to see what I should do to fix it...Guess I will wait it out. I was frustrated yesterday, it ended up causing me to go into the red for the first time. Oh well will just keep an eye on the TDEE that fitbit gives me.0
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So I'm not crazy! I got much too low of an adjustment in MFP last night and the same is happening today. If MFP can't be bothered to address issues like this in a timely manner (at LEAST acknowledge the problem), I may end up dropping them and just using the Fitbit platform.0
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LOL this is nuts, I went ahead and disconnected the two apps, closed them both on my phone. Reconnected the two online, opened the apps again and had a 433 calorie adjustment for exercise, exactly what it should be. That lasted for 20 seconds before it took all those exercise calories away and showed a negative adjustment of 1 calorie for inactivity. There are no updates for either app on google play either, wish they would get it together, If MFP didnt have the better food database I wouldnt even be using them now..0
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and now it is working again, went from a negative adjustment of 1 back to a positive of 433....I hate when tech doesn't work right.0
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As a programmer, I know tech always misbehaves. I spent about 15 minutes this morning planning my workaround if it didn't get fixed right away. I'll be ready next time!
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I emailed support about it.
The MFP burn for me has been bouncing around between 1900 and 2500 at every sync, when it should be a static 1770; it's as if a bored someone is amusing themselves by changing my activity level settings in MFP over and over, all day long.
My calorie adjustments are therefore totally wrong - much lower than they should be.
This is the 2nd day I've been experiencing this problem. Getting double credit for adjustments has been happening for a good bit longer. (I've just been deleting the duplicates)
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Lourdesong wrote: »This is the 2nd day I've been experiencing this problem. Getting double credit for adjustments has been happening for a good bit longer. (I've just been deleting the duplicates)
Same here.0
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