Eating back Fitbit exercise calories

scottishagate

This is weird! If my maintenance calories keep me at maintenance and mfp reports my 5 week weight stays the same. But if I exercise and eat back, MFP says I will gain 1 or even 1.5 lbs in 5 weeks. How can this be?

LivingtheLeanDream

Are you linking your Fitbit and MFP? sounds like they aren't ...

If you have both linked normally as you move more then that would increase your maintenance amount, so if you are logging your food and coming in at maintenance calories then of course you'll maintain. So yes, you do eat back the majority of exercise cals given by Fitbit - I've found it to be pretty accurate overall.