FITBIT ADJUSTMENTS

luvmykats
luvmykats Posts: 5 Member
edited November 22 in Fitness and Exercise
Is it more beneficial to check the fitbit adjustments or not? I don't really understand it.

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  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    Fitbit users will get one Fitbit Calorie Adjustment that is applied to the MFP "Exercise" number each time the two applications sync throughout the day. That adjustment includes Calories earned from steps and any individual exercises logged in Fitbit.

    If the Fitbit Calorie Adjustment is positive, that means that the total estimated Calories earned from steps and exercises have exceeded your MFP Activity Level setting and your MFP daily goal will be increased. Since the adjustment will update throughout the day, if you stop moving many hours before midnight, the earned Calories may decrease a little until the final sync at midnight.

    You do not need to log exercises in both Fitbit and MFP. I just let Fitbit log the exercises and monitor the single adjustment throughout the day. I am set at MFP Sedentary, in maintenance, exercise about one hour three times per week, average about 5000 steps (which is actually for me Lightly Active), so I get anywhere from 200 to 400 Calories for a Fitibit Calorie Adjustment each non-exercise day, and about a 600 Calorie adjustment on an exercise day.

    I would recommend reading through the first three posts in this thread on the MFP Fitbit Users group...

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    What FitBit adjustments attempt to do is this. You put in an activity level when you signed up for MFP. Your daily goals are based on that one activity level. However, there are going to be days when you are more active and days when you are less active.

    Positive adjustments mean you are more active. If your FitBit is 100% accurate you could eat 100% of those calories back and still lose at the rate you signed up for. If you enable negative adjustments and have a very inactive day, you would lose calories. A FitBit gives you information.....information is a good thing. Information will help you during maintenance. But, you need to figure out (this takes time) how accurate a FitBit is for you.

    This is a great thread about FitBits......http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy/p1
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