Eating all the calories!

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  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,240 Member
    It doesn't HAVE to be THAT complicated (says the guy who makes his that complicated, or more) :-)

    You have a 3500+ tdee according to Fitbit and also a good amount of fat available to lose.

    A 25% cut (if you're able to comply with it) is sustainable for you. So aim for -750 and leave some extra green, or aim for 1000 and go a little in the red (most would do the first).

    A little = 125, 150; not 500 Cal.

    Connect Fitbit to trendweight to get your weight trend.

    Keep at it for a month.

    Compare actual to expected results and express it as a % overage or underage.

    Remember that this refers to the complete day, not just exercise. So 5% error on 3500 Cal is 175 Cal.

    Remember that when you manually enter an exercise on MFP you are overwriting what Fitbit detected during that time period. That can affect results.

    Remember that everything you don't log correctly in terms of food also affects results.

    Of course at the end of the day accuracy matters less than consistency.

    Consistency allows you to adjust regardless of accuracy.
  • SierraFatToSkinny
    SierraFatToSkinny Posts: 463 Member
    I've only lost two pound in the month since buying my Fitbit. I'm extremely discouraged.

    I have it set to lose two pounds a week....

    Probably a combination of logging error and also exercise inflation.

    I'm feeling seriously discouraged.
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  • SCoil123
    SCoil123 Posts: 2,111 Member
    I log all food here and all activity through fitbit. The MFP activity burns were giving me double what fitbit said so I decided the lower fitbit number was more accurate. MFP is set to lowest activity level and I allow for negative adjustments when syncing. This formula has allowed me to eat most or all of my earned activity calories.
  • SusanMFindlay
    SusanMFindlay Posts: 1,804 Member
    SCoil123 wrote: »
    I log all food here and all activity through fitbit. The MFP activity burns were giving me double what fitbit said so I decided the lower fitbit number was more accurate. MFP is set to lowest activity level and I allow for negative adjustments when syncing. This formula has allowed me to eat most or all of my earned activity calories.

    I do the same (except that I chose a higher "base" activity level for reasons of convenience). It has worked perfectly for me. My weight loss is within a pound of what it "should" be if FitBit's calorie burns are correct.
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