Fitbit

LisaAvasNana

For those of you that have/had a fitbit. I find just by having it I want to stay moving. Should I reset my goals to Sedentary since it tracks all my steps and automatically adds it to my exercise? What are some of your suggestions or experiences?

Thanks
Lisa

jaz050465

As long as you have enabled the negative activity part- it won't matter as Fitbit will automatically make adjustments. Ask if you want a more detailed e plantation.

uptowndisco

Can you give more info please, if I enable negative adjustments, will MFP steal back my daily Calorie's if fitbit reports low activity that day ?

HDHogger

Can you give more info please, if I enable negative adjustments, will MFP steal back my daily Calorie's if fitbit reports low activity that day ?

IMO MFP and FitBit aren't on the same page when it comes to your inactive calories burned per day. MFP is higher than FitBit on sedentary calories burned; so, that's where the negative adjustments come in. You can use FitBit program without a FitBit tracker and see what I mean. If you don't regularly sync FitBit to MFP you are getting robbed for your daily activity calories burn. MFP is a great website for me because of the food database but you need to track your own activity, adjust your idle calorie burn and then decide your fitness goals. I burn about 2200 idle calories per day so I subract 1000 calories for a two pound weight loss per week. So, my daily activity burn is usually around 500 calories which gives me a 1700 calorie diet plan. According to MFP that fitness goal would turn out to be 3.5lbs of weight lost per week and that isn't correct. The way I do it works out to 2lbs of weight lost per week if I log everything. In my case I set my daily calorie goal to 1700 and eat away. I could make my daily calorie intake 2200 calories and log all my exercise but my routine is the same every day.

jaz050465

Can you give more info please, if I enable negative adjustments, will MFP steal back my daily Calorie's if fitbit reports low activity that day ?

Let's say you set you MFP activity to sedentary which gives you 1300. If your fitbit estimates you burn 1600 in that day, you will be given an extra 300 cals as a fitbit adjustment. If however you only burnt 1200, it would give you a negative adjustment and say you have 100 cals left to eat.
However if you'd set you activity level to,say moderately active which lets say estimated a burn of 1500 and your Firbit again said you'd burnt 1600, you will only get an extra 100 as an adjustment. If you only burnt 1200 that day- you would get 300 taken off. So whatever you set it to, you will be given the same number of cals to,eat.

HDHogger

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Let's say you set you MFP activity to sedentary which gives you 1300. If your fitbit estimates you burn 1600 in that day, you will be given an extra 300 cals as a fitbit adjustment. If however you only burnt 1200, it would give you a negative adjustment and say you have 100 cals left to eat.
However if you'd set you activity level to,say moderately active which lets say estimated a burn of 1500 and your Firbit again said you'd burnt 1600, you will only get an extra 100 as an adjustment. If you only burnt 1200 that day- you would get 300 taken off. So whatever you set it to, you will be given the same number of cals to,eat.
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I can tell you understand how fitbit works which is good. The problem is logging exercise: -> Most people wear their fitbit and we'll say they walk for their exercise, MFP adjusts your fitbit burn and it is right but most people log their exercise in addition to their fitbit data. That is going to give you credit for your exercise and fitbit burn which you actually have to eat back or your nutrition needs aren't met.

samammay

Let's say you set you MFP activity to sedentary which gives you 1300. If your fitbit estimates you burn 1600 in that day, you will be given an extra 300 cals as a fitbit adjustment. If however you only burnt 1200, it would give you a negative adjustment and say you have 100 cals left to eat.
However if you'd set you activity level to,say moderately active which lets say estimated a burn of 1500 and your Firbit again said you'd burnt 1600, you will only get an extra 100 as an adjustment. If you only burnt 1200 that day- you would get 300 taken off. So whatever you set it to, you will be given the same number of cals to,eat.

I can tell you understand how fitbit works which is good. The problem is logging exercise: -> Most people wear their fitbit and we'll say they walk for their exercise, MFP adjusts your fitbit burn and it is right but most people log their exercise in addition to their fitbit data. That is going to give you credit for your exercise and fitbit burn which you actually have to eat back or your nutrition needs aren't met.

No, because when you log exercise, MFP asks for a time, which it reports to FitBit and FitBit adjusts your burn adjustment accordingly. You dont get double credit.

HDHogger

Let's say you set you MFP activity to sedentary which gives you 1300. If your fitbit estimates you burn 1600 in that day, you will be given an extra 300 cals as a fitbit adjustment. If however you only burnt 1200, it would give you a negative adjustment and say you have 100 cals left to eat.
However if you'd set you activity level to,say moderately active which lets say estimated a burn of 1500 and your Firbit again said you'd burnt 1600, you will only get an extra 100 as an adjustment. If you only burnt 1200 that day- you would get 300 taken off. So whatever you set it to, you will be given the same number of cals to,eat.

I can tell you understand how fitbit works which is good. The problem is logging exercise: -> Most people wear their fitbit and we'll say they walk for their exercise, MFP adjusts your fitbit burn and it is right but most people log their exercise in addition to their fitbit data. That is going to give you credit for your exercise and fitbit burn which you actually have to eat back or your nutrition needs aren't met.

No, because when you log exercise, MFP asks for a time, which it reports to FitBit and FitBit adjusts your burn adjustment accordingly. You dont get double credit.

No matter how you slice it FitBit and MFP are wrong about your lifestyle burn. If I set mine to not active for reason of I don't remember the name given. I'll name the lowest activity level inactive. If you are inactive MFP automatically gives you some extra callorie burn. If I walk 10,000 steps a day that is considered active. If I use inactive along with logging my calorie burn it works out. If you change your activity level to active then the steps taken daily which fitbit records then the calorie burn changes. If you use fitbit then you need to log your data separately and not link fitbit web application to MFP then enter the fitbit data and change your goals. Confusing to say the least. I say learn your daily burn if you do nothing. then proceed from there. Your inactive burn -1000 cals gives you 2lbs weight loss per week. Figure your activity level and add that to give your total calorie burn. If you exercise you need to eat that back. You will loose 2lbs for week.

jaz050465

Let's say you set you MFP activity to sedentary which gives you 1300. If your fitbit estimates you burn 1600 in that day, you will be given an extra 300 cals as a fitbit adjustment. If however you only burnt 1200, it would give you a negative adjustment and say you have 100 cals left to eat.
However if you'd set you activity level to,say moderately active which lets say estimated a burn of 1500 and your Firbit again said you'd burnt 1600, you will only get an extra 100 as an adjustment. If you only burnt 1200 that day- you would get 300 taken off. So whatever you set it to, you will be given the same number of cals to,eat.

I can tell you understand how fitbit works which is good. The problem is logging exercise: -> Most people wear their fitbit and we'll say they walk for their exercise, MFP adjusts your fitbit burn and it is right but most people log their exercise in addition to their fitbit data. That is going to give you credit for your exercise and fitbit burn which you actually have to eat back or your nutrition needs aren't met.

No, because when you log exercise, MFP asks for a time, which it reports to FitBit and FitBit adjusts your burn adjustment accordingly. You dont get double credit.

No matter how you slice it FitBit and MFP are wrong about your lifestyle burn. If I set mine to not active for reason of I don't remember the name given. I'll name the lowest activity level inactive. If you are inactive MFP automatically gives you some extra callorie burn. If I walk 10,000 steps a day that is considered active. If I use inactive along with logging my calorie burn it works out. If you change your activity level to active then the steps taken daily which fitbit records then the calorie burn changes. If you use fitbit then you need to log your data separately and not link fitbit web application to MFP then enter the fitbit data and change your goals. Confusing to say the least. I say learn your daily burn if you do nothing. then proceed from there. Your inactive burn -1000 cals gives you 2lbs weight loss per week. Figure your activity level and add that to give your total calorie burn. If you exercise you need to eat that back. You will loose 2lbs for week.

I think you're wrong. But if you set it to sedentary- fitbit won't give you any credit until you have walked 5000 steps (in my case) because as you said, their lowest activity level still counts for som activity. Harley- where are you getting your information from.

jenmck5

It has been an interesting discussion. I haven't looked too closely at some of that, perhaps I need to. I have been using MFP and my fitbit since about June. I love it, and it does keep me moving. I do use some of the extra calories that it gives me. I put my setting on slightly active (I'm a teacher). But the best advice I have gotten is from my friend who has her doctorates in Health and Movement Science - is that if it is working for you go with it. That is what my husband and I have been doing since June and is working for us. When I start to slow down in the weight loss area then I will look closer. I just use my earned fitbit calories as a bonus - sometimes I use them other times I don't.

(Secret OCD in me - I like to have 200- 300 or so calories left a day that I have earned)