*You've earned 661 extra calories from exercise today

jofjltncb6

And all I've done is walk ~900 steps so far today. Have had fitbit and MFP synced for a couple of years now without having this problem. What am I missing?

This is how we calculate your calorie adjustment:

Fitbit Calories Burned
Full Day Projection
(Based on 1733 calories burned as of 10:28 am) 3117
MyFitnessPal Calories Burned
2456
Fitbit Calorie Adjustment
661

_John_

let me rephrase that...are you currently many pound overweight which could account for your increased calorie burn? Or have you taken any illegal or otherwise heartrate accelerators?

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on?





:laugh:

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jofjltncb6

How fat are you?

How fat would I need to be to have that kind of burn from walking from the parking garage to my office?

AllonsYtotheTardis

Try unplugging it, and plugging it back in.

Escloflowne

How fat are you?

How fat would I need to be to have that kind of burn from walking from the parking garage to my office?

Bout Treefiddy

usmcmp

Shouldn't add speed to your morning coffee.
















Does it need new batteries?

CompressedCarbon

I believe this just demonstrates how incredibly efficient you are. I'd go ahead and eat that pan of cinnamon rolls, just so you don't go into starvation mode.

jofjltncb6

I believe this just demonstrates how incredibly efficient you are. I'd go ahead and eat that pan of cinnamon rolls, just so you don't go into starvation mode.

Finally!

Someone with some *real* advice that isn't mean and snarky and useless.

Thank you for actually reading and understanding my post and providing a meaningful response that actually makes sense.

JoRocka

clearly you've worked hard.

have a beer with the full pan of cinnamon rolls.

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SHHitsKaty

And this my friend is why a FitBit is so unreliable and a total waste of money.

lokepa

How fat are you?

How fat would I need to be to have that kind of burn from walking from the parking garage to my office?

Bout Treefiddy

LMAO!

sarafischbach9

I don't have a fitbit but I do the iOS step features until I can afford something better. Sometimes my steps don't always like to sync and I have to restart the app. Maybe you can just turn it back on and then off? Sometimes things simply don't like to work

williams969

I believe this just demonstrates how incredibly efficient you are. I'd go ahead and eat that pan of cinnamon rolls, just so you don't go into starvation mode.

No, no, NO! Why on earth would we want to do THAT? It's CICO-right? So more out = more lost = more WIN! I say make sure to eat ANOTHER 661 calories LESS (or heck, eat nothing), so you can lose it FASTER than everyone else. Starvation mode is a MYTH! Look at how skinny those people living in famine are! Geez, first world problems, y'all!


And, BTW, have you not yet grown your chloroplasts? Air and light diet, baby!

jillybean_75

I think it is estimating what your full day calorie burn will be (TDEE) based on where you are at that moment (1700 calories burned by 10:30 AM). So if MFP is set based on your goals for you to burn 24xx calories a day, they add in the difference 661. You will need to readjust it throughout the day.

I don't have a FitBit, but I have a BodyMedia fit and I find that it works the same way. I have a negative balance first thing in the morning because it is estimating for me at the beginning of the day when it syncs.

jofjltncb6

And this my friend is why a FitBit is so unreliable and a total waste of money.

I've used it for over two years to predictably control my weight in both directions seemingly at will. I'm not quite ready to call this one day blip (for which there may yet be a perfectly reasonable explanation) justification for not having invested the initial <$100.

Perhaps fitbit adjusted my assumed TDEE burn rate given my higher-than-normal intake during the past month with a less-than-previously-expected increase in weight.

Just a theory.

sijomial

You must have been walking on a mini-trampoline.

Don't reward yourself with food - buy some new leg-warmers.

BarbieAS

I had a burn like that once. MFP was giving me a 900 or so calorie credit at the end of the day (no real exercise that day, didn't expect much, if any, adjustment). Looked at my Fitbit dashboard, and it showed that I had burned about that much in about an hour span that afternoon. I'm 100% sure I was actually napping during that hour. Dr. Oz told me that getting extra sleep is good for weight loss, so I just figured my Fitbit is really really smart and knew how much good I was doing for my body during that nap, and ate some nachos. (Actually, I just overwrote the weirdo calorie burn and went about my business, but that's no fun. Hasn't happened before or since, and I've had my accounts synced since May 2012.)

jofjltncb6

I think it is estimating what your full day calorie burn will be (TDEE) based on where you are at that moment (1700 calories burned by 10:30 AM). So if MFP is set based on your goals for you to burn 24xx calories a day, they add in the difference 661. You will need to readjust it throughout the day.

I don't have a FitBit, but I have a BodyMedia fit and I find that it works the same way. I have a negative balance first thing in the morning because it is estimating for me at the beginning of the day when it syncs.

Sure, that's the general concept...however, I've had it synced w/ MFP for over two years and have never seen this kind of early adjustment. I've seen an early adjustment several times before, when I was up and active earlier than usual (or even up and active past midnight the night before like I was last night), but never at this magnitude. And so far this morning, the bulk of my activity was walking from the parking garage to my office, something I do nearly ever weekday.

epj78

Just my 2 cents - don't ever go by FitBit's calorie burn to earn more calories to eat. I LOVE the FitBit for incenting you to stay active during the day and for making you aware if you aren't active at all. However, it is really just a glorified pedometer - I wouldn't ever count on ANY of the calorie burns (whether accurate or not) as a basis of what to eat back. I definitely don't believe it is a waste of money because I 100% see a difference in both how quickly I lose fat and how I feel when I'm getting 10,000 steps a day (great if you can do this on your own without something tracking you, but I can't). However, if I ate back everything it says I burn during my walks, I wouldn't lose an ounce.

However, if you find you can eat back the calories and want an accurate count - I agree with others - try disconnecting and reconnection. The equivalent of a "reboot."

Sam_I_Am77

This isn't meant to be snarky or ****ty in any way. Re-calculate your calorie deficit with a TDEE or BMR calculation and then put your FitBit on Ebay or Craig's List. Those things are fairly inaccurate and don't account for the calorie "burn" that occurs post exercise. TDEE makes life so much simpler and the MFP calc is far too involved.

Benefits of TDEE
- it makes things much simpler
- only need to worry about tracking your daily nutrition
- no tracking of calorie "burn" via a fairly inaccurate method
- no worrying about eating back exercise calories "burned"

MFP
- Requires you to track your regular calorie consumption
- Requires you to track your exercise calorie "burn" via a fairly inaccurate method
- Requires you to eat-back calories burned from exercise

To me MFP's calc seems like a major pain in the *kitten* for managing your nutrition plan, keep it simple.

Chevy_Quest

I believe this just demonstrates how incredibly efficient you are. I'd go ahead and eat that pan of cinnamon rolls, just so you don't go into starvation mode.

Finally!

Someone with some *real* advice that isn't mean and snarky and useless.

Thank you for actually reading and understanding my post and providing a meaningful response that actually makes sense.

Ha - Well Played!

WaterBunnie

Check your FitBit is showing the correct time. Could be showing yesterday's activity today? Happened to mine recently and I was gradually losing a few hours a day so my morning walk to work eventually began to sync to the previous day. FitBit happily replaced it. Could be your timezone has reset itself or maybe the box that lets you use estimated predicted burn?

jofjltncb6

Check your FitBit is showing the correct time. Could be showing yesterday's activity today? Happened to mine recently and I was gradually losing a few hours a day so my morning walk to work eventually began to sync to the previous day. FitBit happily replaced it. Could be your timezone has reset itself or maybe the box that lets you use estimated predicted burn?

My first thought was that it was for yesterday...because my fitbit didn't sync w/ fitbit.com during the day/evening yesterday. However, I checked and it appropriately calculated an adjustment for yesterday, so I don't think that's it.

I'm still going with an adjustment to fitbit's estimated calculation for my above-average intake vs my lower-than-expected weight increase during that time.

Barbellarella_

DId you accidentally change your Fitbit food log settings? If you had it set to sedentary before (Starts out low and lets you earn calories as you are active throughout the day), but then accidentally changed it to Personalized (uses past history to estimate calories you will burn) then I could see why it might change like that.

If not, maybe change it to sedentary and see if it still acts wonky for a few days.

WaterBunnie

I can never understand how people think the TDEE method can be more accurate than something you wear that actually moves with you? Surely you've had to make a fairly inaccurate assumption of your burn rate for that? What happens if the class you usually do gets cancelled or you are unable to go but your calorie goal relies on the assumption you've attended? Eating more on exercise days and less when you don't makes perfect sense to me - after all, wouldn't a non-dieter eat more naturally on a day they'd been especially active?

Barbellarella_

And this my friend is why a FitBit is so unreliable and a total waste of money.

Blasphemy

martinel2099

If it looks too good to be true then it probably is. Reduce it's estimate and go with something lower. Worst case scenario you add a little extra deficit this week.

BarbieAS

Check your FitBit is showing the correct time. Could be showing yesterday's activity today? Happened to mine recently and I was gradually losing a few hours a day so my morning walk to work eventually began to sync to the previous day. FitBit happily replaced it. Could be your timezone has reset itself or maybe the box that lets you use estimated predicted burn?

My first thought was that it was for yesterday...because my fitbit didn't sync w/ fitbit.com during the day/evening yesterday. However, I checked and it appropriately calculated an adjustment for yesterday, so I don't think that's it.

I'm still going with an adjustment to fitbit's estimated calculation for my above-average intake vs my lower-than-expected weight increase during that time.

Check your Fitbit dashboard and look at the graph that breaks down your calorie burn by time chunks, and make sure there's nothing crazy. 1733 calories actually burned by 10:48am seems like a LOT for less than 1,000 steps, regardless of your size or previous activity or whatnot.