Fitbit and exercise

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    angelsja wrote: »
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    Jadub729 wrote: »
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    My fitbit is linked to MFP so I just let it sync itself, I dont trust the calories they give me though. I eat about half.

    Why don’t you trust the data?

    I believe it overestimates calories burned. I've read several articles stating that it is not 100% accurate when it comes to calories burned. I can get 100 "steps" doing my hair :D

    I’ve had one synced with MFP for years and it’s accurate for me, countless members on here have used the two programs successfully trusting the data and eating back the exercise adjustments.

    Usually when someone doesn’t trust the data it’s because they’ve for themselves set as Sedentary when they average 10k or more steps (NOT Sedentary) so they see big adjustments and don’t think that can possibly be accurate.

    Maybe take it off while doing your hair if that bothers you - 100 steps is 1% of my total day and I’m not going to sweat about little inaccuracies like that - I mean, I don’t get “credit” for calories burned while the thing is charging so in the end it’s kind of a wash... I’ve lost the weight I set out to lose and am currently maintaining by trusting and eating back the calorie adjustments. Blanket skepticism doesn’t seem warranted in a device I paid money for...

    That's funny because my Calories still go up when I'm not wearing mine eg if I take it off to go in the bath etc also people that don't wear it at night wake up to calories burned I've only had mine since February and have found its 200-300 calories over per day based on calories burned and weight loss

    That's because you burn calories 24/7...even at total rest. You still burn calories in a coma...a lot of them. FitBit isn't just giving you calories for movement...it includes your basal calories.

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