Signifigant weight loss - feeling overwhelmed with info

SusanMFindlay

leooftheyear wrote: »

TrinaJo4 wrote: »

Ok so I seem to have gotten a lot of different opinions and here is what I'm going to do.

MFP has me at 1976 calories per day a sedimentary (I work in an office) to lose 2 pounds per week. I use a CHARGE 2 fit bit (which uses my heart rate) so I'm going to add about 50% of my calories to MFP. The TDEE from fit bit is 2400 calories roughly. For the last three weeks my daily calories used has been over 3200 everyday.

I will do that for a few weeks and se how it goes.

Thanks everyone for your help. I appreciate the time it takes to answer!

Hi Trina,

Please don't add calories from FitBit, link your accounts and allow negative calories. that way you don't even have to worry about logging exercise.

Make sure both your fitbit and MFP goals are the same (e.g. lose 2lbs per week).

This. While I don't find FitBit to overestimate my calorie burn, you need to realize that it includes your base calorie burn in the numbers it reports for a workout. So, when it says you burn 500 calories in a 1 hour workout, 100 of those calories might be ones you were going to burn anyway (just by existing) and only 400 of them are "extra" calories from the workout.