Fit bit Cals in VS Cals Out Zone

xxharleyquinnxx

Which zone do you aim to be in? I'm normally in the under zone which is yellow (through the week) and more in the red zone at weekend hah but never been in the green zone? Just a bit confused on whether I should be in the under yellow zone or not for losing weight? Surely it makes sense to be under your calorie limit?

shadow2soul

Did you select a goal to lose weight on Fitbit?

If so, say you selected a 500 cal deficit, to be in the green you would need to be 500 cal under your Fitbit calorie burn. Yellow would mean you were over 500 calories under your goal. Red when mean you weren't 500 under.

kpkitten

If you pre-log, you'll be red most of the day anyway. I usually end up green around dinnertime and yellow by the time I go to bed, but I have a 750cal deficit and plenty of space to be under that limit (I've got over 100lb to lose).

The zone is based on what you should have eaten by that point in the day to be on track to maintain your chosen deficit. So if you tell Fitbit you want to lose 1lb a week, you have a 500 cal deficit. If you've burned 700 cals by the time you wake up, and log a 200cal breakfast, you'll be green. But if you log nothing you might be yellow and if you log a breakfast of more than about 250 cals you'd be red. The only time I think it's worth checking the zone is a little after lunch IF you eat a standard 3 meals a day with roughly equal calories AM and PM, and then after dinner. But checking your calories againt MFP is much easier but it doesn't have confusing zones that look bad if you pre-log your food before you do any exercise.

WinoGelato

I don't look at calories in and out on FitBit. I only use MFP to track the food portion of my dayc and FitBit to track the movement portion of my day. I have the two systems synced, with negative adjustments enabled, and then I just let them work it out. If I do non step based activity like circuit training I log that , but otherwise I just let FitBit tell MFP how many calories I burned and MFP tells me how many calories I can eat.

I've used a FitBit with MFP for over 3 years now, lost the weight I set out to lose and am currently maintaining it. I learned early on that if you try to over analyze the numbers in FitBit you'll drive yourself crazy, you have to put a bit of trust into it but most people find it works quite well and is a reliable predictor of calorie burn.

NorthCascades

Sorry I must have been confused.