Confused about adjustment
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Thanks everyone. This is only the first week so I will see if it settles down after a week or two. I'm not going to eat back my calories just yet since its really just up and down and slow walking the dog. If after a couple of weeks I continue to get the same I will start eating back calories.
Since I'm new to the fitbit is eating back 50% about right in your experience with the HR? Keeping in mind I still have 75 lbs to lose and I'm on 1200 calories which puts me between 1.5 to 1 lb a week loss.0 -
Christine_72 wrote: »Francl has a point with the heart rate. I started off with the zip and now have an Alta, neither of which have HR monitors, so i have no experience with them. Mine simply gives me calories for steps/distance.
It does have 'active minutes' though, right? I know that I used to get all kinds of weird numbers when I had my One, that didn't really make much sense if you only had the data from steps and active minutes (one of the reasons I stopped using it)... like some days I had a lower TDEE even though I walked 5k more steps and had more active minutes or something.0 -
leanjogreen18 wrote: »Thanks everyone. This is only the first week so I will see if it settles down after a week or two. I'm not going to eat back my calories just yet since its really just up and down and slow walking the dog. If after a couple of weeks I continue to get the same I will start eating back calories.
Since I'm new to the fitbit is eating back 50% about right in your experience with the HR? Keeping in mind I still have 75 lbs to lose and I'm on 1200 calories which puts me between 1.5 to 1 lb a week loss.
I'd eat 50% to start. I've only had mine for a month now so I can't really say if it's accurate or not - my clothes still fit the same at least (and I've been mostly eating at maintenance, so what Fitbit tells me).1 -
leanjogreen18 wrote: »Thanks everyone. This is only the first week so I will see if it settles down after a week or two. I'm not going to eat back my calories just yet since its really just up and down and slow walking the dog. If after a couple of weeks I continue to get the same I will start eating back calories.
Since I'm new to the fitbit is eating back 50% about right in your experience with the HR? Keeping in mind I still have 75 lbs to lose and I'm on 1200 calories which puts me between 1.5 to 1 lb a week loss.
I'd eat 50% to start. I've only had mine for a month now so I can't really say if it's accurate or not - my clothes still fit the same at least (and I've been mostly eating at maintenance, so what Fitbit tells me).
I'm still not understanding the fitbit when it comes to calories yet. I'm just sticking to mfp and in a couple of weeks I will begin eating the transfered from fitbit exercise calories (50%).
I'm hoping one day I will understand how the fitbit calories/in/out/over/under works:).0 -
leanjogreen18 wrote: »leanjogreen18 wrote: »Thanks everyone. This is only the first week so I will see if it settles down after a week or two. I'm not going to eat back my calories just yet since its really just up and down and slow walking the dog. If after a couple of weeks I continue to get the same I will start eating back calories.
Since I'm new to the fitbit is eating back 50% about right in your experience with the HR? Keeping in mind I still have 75 lbs to lose and I'm on 1200 calories which puts me between 1.5 to 1 lb a week loss.
I'd eat 50% to start. I've only had mine for a month now so I can't really say if it's accurate or not - my clothes still fit the same at least (and I've been mostly eating at maintenance, so what Fitbit tells me).
I'm still not understanding the fitbit when it comes to calories yet. I'm just sticking to mfp and in a couple of weeks I will begin eating the transfered from fitbit exercise calories (50%).
I'm hoping one day I will understand how the fitbit calories/in/out/over/under works:).
MFP really overestimates the calories that Fitbit gives you, honestly. So eating half either way seems like a good start (I have to make sure that I have 100-150 calories left at the end of the day).
But so far the 'calorie left' part of Fitbit seems pretty accurate at least.1 -
leanjogreen18 wrote: »leanjogreen18 wrote: »Thanks everyone. This is only the first week so I will see if it settles down after a week or two. I'm not going to eat back my calories just yet since its really just up and down and slow walking the dog. If after a couple of weeks I continue to get the same I will start eating back calories.
Since I'm new to the fitbit is eating back 50% about right in your experience with the HR? Keeping in mind I still have 75 lbs to lose and I'm on 1200 calories which puts me between 1.5 to 1 lb a week loss.
I'd eat 50% to start. I've only had mine for a month now so I can't really say if it's accurate or not - my clothes still fit the same at least (and I've been mostly eating at maintenance, so what Fitbit tells me).
I'm still not understanding the fitbit when it comes to calories yet. I'm just sticking to mfp and in a couple of weeks I will begin eating the transfered from fitbit exercise calories (50%).
I'm hoping one day I will understand how the fitbit calories/in/out/over/under works:).
MFP really overestimates the calories that Fitbit gives you, honestly. So eating half either way seems like a good start (I have to make sure that I have 100-150 calories left at the end of the day).
But so far the 'calorie left' part of Fitbit seems pretty accurate at least.
I do not understand the calories left/over/under/in/out and it's driving me crazy.
I've read so many explanations on reddit, fitbit and here and I'm still not getting it:( I need a fitbit for dummies:)0 -
leanjogreen18 wrote: »leanjogreen18 wrote: »leanjogreen18 wrote: »Thanks everyone. This is only the first week so I will see if it settles down after a week or two. I'm not going to eat back my calories just yet since its really just up and down and slow walking the dog. If after a couple of weeks I continue to get the same I will start eating back calories.
Since I'm new to the fitbit is eating back 50% about right in your experience with the HR? Keeping in mind I still have 75 lbs to lose and I'm on 1200 calories which puts me between 1.5 to 1 lb a week loss.
I'd eat 50% to start. I've only had mine for a month now so I can't really say if it's accurate or not - my clothes still fit the same at least (and I've been mostly eating at maintenance, so what Fitbit tells me).
I'm still not understanding the fitbit when it comes to calories yet. I'm just sticking to mfp and in a couple of weeks I will begin eating the transfered from fitbit exercise calories (50%).
I'm hoping one day I will understand how the fitbit calories/in/out/over/under works:).
MFP really overestimates the calories that Fitbit gives you, honestly. So eating half either way seems like a good start (I have to make sure that I have 100-150 calories left at the end of the day).
But so far the 'calorie left' part of Fitbit seems pretty accurate at least.
I do not understand the calories left/over/under/in/out and it's driving me crazy.
I've read so many explanations on reddit, fitbit and here and I'm still not getting it:( I need a fitbit for dummies:)
Have you checked out the fitbit forums? They have individual ones for each model of fitbit.
https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Help-Forums/ct-p/product
@Francl27 I usually get at least 160 active minutes everyday.1 -
leanjogreen18 wrote: »leanjogreen18 wrote: »leanjogreen18 wrote: »Thanks everyone. This is only the first week so I will see if it settles down after a week or two. I'm not going to eat back my calories just yet since its really just up and down and slow walking the dog. If after a couple of weeks I continue to get the same I will start eating back calories.
Since I'm new to the fitbit is eating back 50% about right in your experience with the HR? Keeping in mind I still have 75 lbs to lose and I'm on 1200 calories which puts me between 1.5 to 1 lb a week loss.
I'd eat 50% to start. I've only had mine for a month now so I can't really say if it's accurate or not - my clothes still fit the same at least (and I've been mostly eating at maintenance, so what Fitbit tells me).
I'm still not understanding the fitbit when it comes to calories yet. I'm just sticking to mfp and in a couple of weeks I will begin eating the transfered from fitbit exercise calories (50%).
I'm hoping one day I will understand how the fitbit calories/in/out/over/under works:).
MFP really overestimates the calories that Fitbit gives you, honestly. So eating half either way seems like a good start (I have to make sure that I have 100-150 calories left at the end of the day).
But so far the 'calorie left' part of Fitbit seems pretty accurate at least.
I do not understand the calories left/over/under/in/out and it's driving me crazy.
I've read so many explanations on reddit, fitbit and here and I'm still not getting it:( I need a fitbit for dummies:)
The in/out/in the zone stuff is completely useless, frankly.Christine_72 wrote: »leanjogreen18 wrote: »leanjogreen18 wrote: »leanjogreen18 wrote: »Thanks everyone. This is only the first week so I will see if it settles down after a week or two. I'm not going to eat back my calories just yet since its really just up and down and slow walking the dog. If after a couple of weeks I continue to get the same I will start eating back calories.
Since I'm new to the fitbit is eating back 50% about right in your experience with the HR? Keeping in mind I still have 75 lbs to lose and I'm on 1200 calories which puts me between 1.5 to 1 lb a week loss.
I'd eat 50% to start. I've only had mine for a month now so I can't really say if it's accurate or not - my clothes still fit the same at least (and I've been mostly eating at maintenance, so what Fitbit tells me).
I'm still not understanding the fitbit when it comes to calories yet. I'm just sticking to mfp and in a couple of weeks I will begin eating the transfered from fitbit exercise calories (50%).
I'm hoping one day I will understand how the fitbit calories/in/out/over/under works:).
MFP really overestimates the calories that Fitbit gives you, honestly. So eating half either way seems like a good start (I have to make sure that I have 100-150 calories left at the end of the day).
But so far the 'calorie left' part of Fitbit seems pretty accurate at least.
I do not understand the calories left/over/under/in/out and it's driving me crazy.
I've read so many explanations on reddit, fitbit and here and I'm still not getting it:( I need a fitbit for dummies:)
@Francl27 I usually get at least 160 active minutes everyday.
I think the settings are different for those depending on the type of Fitbit that you have. I have no idea how my One worked but the Charge 2 seems to only count 'active minutes' if I'm active for more than 10 minutes or something.. but if I'm just doing stuff in my kitchen it doesn't count (even if I'm on my feet and walking back and forth a bit for 5 minutes). I'm not sure how it works. Maybe I should look that up, lol.0 -
I'm pretty sure the Alta has the same 10 minute rule.0
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leanjogreen18 wrote: »leanjogreen18 wrote: »Thanks everyone. This is only the first week so I will see if it settles down after a week or two. I'm not going to eat back my calories just yet since its really just up and down and slow walking the dog. If after a couple of weeks I continue to get the same I will start eating back calories.
Since I'm new to the fitbit is eating back 50% about right in your experience with the HR? Keeping in mind I still have 75 lbs to lose and I'm on 1200 calories which puts me between 1.5 to 1 lb a week loss.
I'd eat 50% to start. I've only had mine for a month now so I can't really say if it's accurate or not - my clothes still fit the same at least (and I've been mostly eating at maintenance, so what Fitbit tells me).
I'm still not understanding the fitbit when it comes to calories yet. I'm just sticking to mfp and in a couple of weeks I will begin eating the transfered from fitbit exercise calories (50%).
I'm hoping one day I will understand how the fitbit calories/in/out/over/under works:).
Ditto's to skipping that data - just remove that info - very few eat through the day to exactly match what they are burning - and that's what it's trying to help you do.
Fitbit is assigning all non-step time as BMR level burn.
Look in your daily calorie burn graph at a 15 min increment while sleeping and do the math, it'll be close to the Mifflin BMR that MFP uses.
But that is actually underestimated when you are really awake, burning RMR level burn (resting metabolism).
It also can't tell if standing burning even more.
It also doesn't take into account the about 10% of your eaten calories that are used for food processing.
So it generally underestimates - less active, even more so.
Steps though calculate out to distance, and distance and time and mass are a very accurate in formulas for calorie burn. Normal everyday walking should use this formula, unless unfit and HR goes too high fooling it.
If you get intense enough and HR goes over a point (usually 90 unless your Fitbit decides it's higher), then HR-based calorie burn is used if the time span is long enough and steps are seen - so you aren't getting big burn for getting elevated HR from being scared or such.
So it has a MUCH better handle on your daily burn than you guessing from 4 non-exercise daily activity levels on MFP. And then hoping you are inputting exercise correctly.
If you trust MFP and don't understand how it came up with your numbers - then you should trust Fitbit more.
Accuracy of course can be improved in some cases on Fitbit.
And just so you know - they are NOT exercise calories from Fitbit.
The result of math happens to be put in the exercise diary.
But as many discover, they can have no exercise and merely increased daily activity and get correct adjustments.
Or have a hard workout and be tired rest of day and get no adjustment or negative.0
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