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Fitbit calories?

meganreid163
meganreid163 Posts: 72 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Simple question. Do you eat what your Fitbit suggestions for your goals?

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  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    edited June 2019
    not clear what you mean.

    i use MFP to determine my calorie goal and log the food i weigh.

    i do eat back a portion of exercise calories (synched with fitbit).
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,704 Member
    Fitbit is likely to estimate most people's TDEE fairly closely, but will be further off for a few, and quite far off for a very, very few. It's just a different kind of estimate, a little more personalized than a "calorie calculator", but still a statistical estimate. Like all statistical estimates of something with a relatively small standard deviation, it'll be close for most people, those most similar to the average of the underlying research statistics.

    So, eat the number of calories your Fitbit gives you, or number of calories MFP gives you with your Fitbit adjustment synced in if you're trying to lose, stick with it for 4-6 months, and see how things turn out.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,675 Member
    edited June 2019
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    Fitbit is likely to estimate most people's TDEE fairly closely, but will be further off for a few, and quite far off for a very, very few. It's just a different kind of estimate, a little more personalized than a "calorie calculator", but still a statistical estimate. Like all statistical estimates of something with a relatively small standard deviation, it'll be close for most people, those most similar to the average of the underlying research statistics.

    So, eat the number of calories your Fitbit gives you, or number of calories MFP gives you with your Fitbit adjustment synced in if you're trying to lose, stick with it for 4-6 months, and see how things turn out.

    Weeks, not months, oh hasty one! :wink:
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,704 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    Fitbit is likely to estimate most people's TDEE fairly closely, but will be further off for a few, and quite far off for a very, very few. It's just a different kind of estimate, a little more personalized than a "calorie calculator", but still a statistical estimate. Like all statistical estimates of something with a relatively small standard deviation, it'll be close for most people, those most similar to the average of the underlying research statistics.

    So, eat the number of calories your Fitbit gives you, or number of calories MFP gives you with your Fitbit adjustment synced in if you're trying to lose, stick with it for 4-6 months, and see how things turn out.

    Weeks, not months, oh hasty one! :wink:

    LOL! Oops, yes: Weeks!

    (Sorry, OP.)
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