Fitbit sabotage??
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Yes, it is sabotage. Ignore the calorie adjustment completely, it is ridiculously inflated.
I find that my Fitbit is actually pretty close. I'm basing that off my average calorie intake plus exercise and my actual weight loss progress. If anything, it's a little low. I've had to override the MFP settings to create a better balance for myself.
OP, time and experience will tell if it's accurate for you. Many people find that it is. Until you know, maybe eat about 75% of that back. This is assuming that your logging is accurate. Are you weighing all solid foods? I would look at those things first.0 -
Is your FitBit making you eat?
I think that the numbers are probably right on if you are a young, healthy person with no metabolic issues. For me...ha! My FitBit tells me to eat about 1400 calories/day over what I know is maintenance on most days. YMMV.0 -
janejellyroll wrote: »
Never heard anyone say it is accurate. So, you eat all the calories fitbit says you should and still lose weight?
I find my fitbit calories underestimate my actual burn and generally have to eat about 150-200 calories per day more than my fitbit adjustments to remain in maintenance.
When I was losing I ate to my fitbit adjustments.
I do not like, nor have, an HRM Fitbit - those I am wary of. But the basic pedometer ones have always proved accurate for me.0 -
janejellyroll wrote: »
Never heard anyone say it is accurate. So, you eat all the calories fitbit says you should and still lose weight?
I do! It has been a godsend for me! I'm less than 10lbs from goal and have lost over 40 and most of my consistent progress has been since I got my Fitbit Zip
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I ignore the calorie adjustment on MFP from fitbit but use the actual calories on fitbit and work out my deficit from there rather than on what MFP tells me to eat. I'm losing steadily.
On a non workout day fitbit tells me I burn around 1900, pretty much the same as a TDEE calculator.
I've got a charge HR.0 -
My take on it is this. It's based on BMI, right? (Which is a great tool when looking at a population, but individuals vary.) I've been pretty inactive for the past year nursing various injuries, but maintaining my actual weight. However, my body fat percentage has increased about 4%. When I used my Fitbit at 18% BF (low BMI for my age) I found it gave me too few calories to maintain. Now at 22% BF (normal BMI) it's spot on.
(I don't plan on increasing my BF to be above a normal BMI to see if it starts giving me too many calories, however.
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BecomingBane wrote: »
I'm sad this is not the repraise version (it has all the outtakes from the making of the video, and it's hilarious). My favorite is the guy who busts through the chain link gate; they locked it and he just bounced off.0 -
Mine is very accurate. If you eat back all my calories I wont drop the weight.. you will only maintain.
But if I listen to how much my deficit is for that day, I drop pretty much exactly what I would expect from it.
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Oh, and I'll add that I've found mine to be pretty accurate. I pick up several hundred steps from inconsistent things like driving, but it seems to balance out with things that it under counts (like weight lifting).0
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My 5-year-old One was always way off if I was doing specific activities, specifically hiking and cardio classes on the second floor of a building, for some reason.
However, I've had used a Charge HR and a Surge over the last few years, and they've both been really accurate.0 -
blues4miles wrote: »I do not find the calorie adjustment from Fitbit to be inflated AT ALL. On a day I get my full 10,000 steps, my Fitbit might say I burned about 200 calories more than if I sat on my rear end the whole day. I actually manually log all my exercise and let those higher calorie burn estimates override what my Fitbit said.
I wish my UP3 were this conservative. It's giving me about 900 EXTRA calories per 10k steps right now.
What is your activity level set to? If you have it set to sedentary, you will get a larger adjustment from 10K steps than if you have it set to active or whatever.0 -
I'm on the Fitbit bandwagon too! I eat all of my Fitbit calories and have lost faster than expected! I
Fitbit!! 0 -
janejellyroll wrote: »
I also have a high opinion of my fitbit's adjustments.0 -
Does anyone know if the garmin vivofit is as accurate as the fitbit seems to be
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When I was lifting weights, I manually entered that activity and found that I was continuing to lose about a pound a month despite the numbers indicating I should be maintaining - When I dropped the weight lifting and the only exercise adjustment was the step count, I found it right on the money. Particularly useful for me is the 30-day rolling graph of CI-CO (syncs with MFP for food).0
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