Exercise burned calories disappear?

shrinkyy
shrinkyy Posts: 21 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi all,

My fitbit tracks my steps and says I burned 90 calories. Then any time I add 10 minutes of cycling, it puts my fitbit calories down to 18. I can't understand why it's doing this. MFP and fitbit are both on the same timezone and I'm not logging the bike when I was walking or anything weird like that. It's just taking my bike calories off my fitbit calories burned on MFP and can't understand why

Thanks

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  • KarenSmith2018
    KarenSmith2018 Posts: 302 Member
    the fitbit added calories in my fitness pal is the difference between what your fitbit thinks you will burn in a day and what myfitnesspal does. So your calories in MFP is 1700 say and your fitbit based on how your day is going projects your calorie burn for the day to be 1800 so it will add 100 fitbit calories. Now if you log extra activity like your bike ride that burnt 200 calories into MFP giving you a total calorie burn for the day of 1900 and your fitbit tracker now estimates your daily burn at 1900 it will eliminate the extra from the fitbit.

    The fitbit line is just the extra (or not) it thinks you will burn in a day compared to the set value in MFP and if exercise you log means that the MFP value is now greater than the Fitbit value it will take away those exercise calories.

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