Am I logging exercise correctly with my fitbit?!?! Halp

squirrelzzrule22
squirrelzzrule22 Posts: 640 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hello-

I love my fitbit, but it confuses me sometimes.

I'm taking 10,000 steps per day between normal activity, walking, jogging, and occasionally the elliptical. I do not log these activities in MFP.

I take a power yoga class about twice a week, and a group strength training/ core circuit class for an hour twice a week. I lift heavy on my own once a week. I DO log these activities making sure to put in the correct start time. My logic was that these activities don't involve much stepping, but the power yoga really burns and the core circuit absolutely KICKS MY BUTT my heart is pounding the whole time and my abs kill. So it feels like it should be accounted for.

After a typical day, my fitbit calorie adjustment is giving me an extra 200-300 calories. But am I accidentally doubling this by recording lifting and circuits and yoga?? Please explain! I do usually eat most of that back.

25, 5'8", 160lbs, fitbit typically says I burn about 2300/ day, I eat around 1700 (typically, it varies) and I can't lose these last 25 lbs to save my life!!!

Haallp please!

ETA I do a 45 min spin class 1-2x a week. I log that as 30 mins of spin. Same question applies.

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  • redwoodkestrel
    redwoodkestrel Posts: 339 Member
    If you have your Fitbit and MFP synced together, then no, you shouldn't be earning double calories when you enter your non-step-based exercise into MFP, as long as you're accurate about your start and end times. Doing that "erases" those active minutes from Fitbit. Any active minutes you get via step-based activities that you don't log in MFP will then adjust your calories via the Fitbit.

    So, you're probably getting calorie adjustments both from Fitbit (via your steps) and from MFP (via your exercise logged), BUT they aren't "double" adjustments.

    Hope that makes sense! :happy:

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