Fitbit confusing me

caylalane
caylalane Posts: 11 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Yesterday I had a total burn of 2900. I ate 2048 and it's telling me I'm 1008 calories over my goal and over budget. What gives? Over budget makes sense I guess, it's set to lose 1000 per day and I wasn't all the way there but there is no way I'm 1000 over budget...

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  • Citycat2015
    Citycat2015 Posts: 86 Member
    Two things I found - mine doesn't account for extra exercise calories burned and add them to available calories like MFP does so anything over 1200 and it tells me I am over. Also sometimes when I add an entry then delete/ modify it to lower - it keeps the original higher item. Once I re added my whole lunch and it kept both entries. I hope that makes sense and helps.
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    Is your fitbit synced to myfitnesspal with negative adjustments enabled? Do you log your food in fitbit or MFP? Have you checked the food log on fitbit? I find there's a glitch in Fitbit where it duplicates a meal.

    Do you mfp and Fitbit calorie and activity levels match?
  • caylalane
    caylalane Posts: 11 Member
    cerise_noir wrote: »
    Is your fitbit synced to myfitnesspal with negative adjustments enabled? Do you log your food in fitbit or MFP? Have you checked the food log on fitbit? I find there's a glitch in Fitbit where it duplicates a meal.

    Do you mfp and Fitbit calorie and activity levels match?

    I log on MFP and do my exercise on fitbit. Total intake matches for calories.. but the way the burned calories show up is different. Also no, negative adjustments aren't on.
  • brb_2013
    brb_2013 Posts: 1,197 Member
    My fitbit assumes I will eat a bit less than MFP ends up giving me, so fitbit doesn't add in extra exercise calories you may have earned. Yesterday I ate about 1800 calories, but on days I eat more around 2000 I'm over on Fitbit but not for MFP. So you just have to decide which one you want to follow basically. I pay attention to fitbit of course, but at the end of the day I pay attention to the calories on MFP because that's where I log my food.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    edited April 2016
    My fitbit app currently says 2160 calories burned. With over 4 hours to go it'll get to over 2500. There's no equivalent number visible in MFP unless you query the Fitbit adjustment under Exercise (see pic below).

    It says I am under budget at 1400 in / 2160 out and I have 414 calories left.

    MFP says I have eaten 1400 (this data goes to Fitbit) and have 374 left. The 40 discrepancy between the two is typical for me. MFP's goal has been ramped up by 474 by exercise from Fitbit.

    The 474 is the difference between Fitbit's forecast of my day's energy expenditure and what I told MFP it would be (sedentary).

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