Fitbit assuming too many calories

guroprincess

Fitbit is always assuming my TDEE is 2200 on days that I forget to wear my Fitbit. Realistically, my sedentary TDEE is around 2000.

Therefore, it's constantly adding a positive adjustment of around ~200 calories to my daily goal here on MFP (on days that I forget to wear my Fitbit). For example, yesterday it assumed 2200 cal burned even though all I did was sit around.

On days that I remember my Fitbit and I'm actually somewhat active (like today, I walked 13,000 steps) should I assume Fitbit knows what its doing and eat back the calories it's added?

It doesn't have this problem on days that I manually add exercise, by the way.

(I guess I could fix this by actually wearing my Fitbit consistently, but some days I just forget. It happens. Maybe I could just ignore Fitbit's adjustment on the days I forget?)

guroprincess

After doing a little poking around I realized that back when I wasn't using my Fitbit it assumed 1600 calories TDEE which is actually a few hundred under. I guess since I've been exercising on a daily basis it just assumed that I'm going to burn 2200 because that's what I've been burning daily lately. I'll just have to remember to wear it every day

Ready2Rock206

After doing a little poking around I realized that back when I wasn't using my Fitbit it assumed 1600 calories TDEE which is actually a few hundred under. I guess since I've been exercising on a daily basis it just assumed that I'm going to burn 2200 because that's what I've been burning daily lately. I'll just have to remember to wear it every day

Yep - I find if I exercise a lot it does assume I'll keep doing it - so if I burn a lot one day and then am not active the next day my negative calorie adjustment can be pretty painful.

guroprincess

^Thanks! bump for other opinions though.