Is anyone else having trouble with their Fitbit?

Khovde07
Khovde07 Posts: 508 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
More specifically, it linking to MFP. Last night I worked out from 7:00-8:00 and when I looked on the MFP app it said that I gained an extra 701 calories. Well that's pretty awesome so I had a post-workout snack (granola bar and fruit). Then when I got up this morning my desktop told me that I was over in calories last night. Weird. So I looked at the app again and I still had 701 extra calories. I looked up and looked back down again and now the app says I'm over calories as well!

I was pretty sore from a workout the previous day so I hadn't moved much yesterday and thought maybe that had something to do with it. But I reached my step goal, had an hour of active minutes, and burned a total of 3,006 calories yesterday.

Why in the hell is MFP saying I went over calories?! Everything looked like it was synced so I'm utterly confused.

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  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    I'm not even looking at my calories available on MFP anymore because the syncing with Fitbit is so wacky. I log my food here and my exercise on Fitbit and use my Fitbit dashboard to figure out how many calories I have to eat.
  • 6502programmer
    6502programmer Posts: 515 Member
    What did your calorie adjustment on your MFP diary look like?

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  • Khovde07
    Khovde07 Posts: 508 Member
    @jemhh I'm trying to use my Fitbit to track calories so I know how many workout calories I should be eating back. I'm worried I'm not eating enough and putting my body in starvation mode.

    @6502programmer My calorie adjuster for both MFP and Fitbit were at 3006 calories. On Wednesday, I worked out and had extra calories (but now they're gone too) and my calorie adjuster for Fitbit says 2789 and MFP says 3214. Both days the adjustment reads 0.
  • 6502programmer
    6502programmer Posts: 515 Member
    edited February 2016
    yuck. disconnect and reconnect the fitbit / mfp integration. I've been lucky that my fitbit burn is going to mfp fine, and it's putting the delta in properly.

    I did, however, open a support ticket with mfp.. the screenshot says taht negative adjustments are disabled, but on the site, they're enabled.
  • bubbajoe1066
    bubbajoe1066 Posts: 95 Member
    I asked this in another thread.... i was told MFP has some sort of bug they are working on... my calories are all over the place... sometimes it adds calories ..sometimes not... the new glitch i'm seeing is this *You've earned 1,636 extra calories from exercise today.. no way i come close to earning this much.. looks like it actually doubled my extra calories... i don't add excersise to MFP ,just whatever i get using my fitbit only, for fear of doubling up on my calories gained.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Khovde07 wrote: »
    @jemhh I'm trying to use my Fitbit to track calories so I know how many workout calories I should be eating back. I'm worried I'm not eating enough and putting my body in starvation mode.

    @6502programmer My calorie adjuster for both MFP and Fitbit were at 3006 calories. On Wednesday, I worked out and had extra calories (but now they're gone too) and my calorie adjuster for Fitbit says 2789 and MFP says 3214. Both days the adjustment reads 0.

    Don't worry about starvation mode. It's not what you think it is. Nobody stops losing fat because they eat too little. That being said, I am happy to see you are eating back your exercise calories.

    I set my Fitbit to lose a pound a week. The dashboard has a spot that says I have X number of calories left. That's based on the calories I've burned (steps, logged exercise, and BMR-type calories burned so far) plus an estimate of BMR-type calories I'll burn until midnight, less 500 calories. As I log food, those calories decrease. If I log exercise, they go up. It's similar to looking at the MFP calories available.

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