Fitbit exercise calories

higgins8283801

Do you ignore the random calories fitbit adds to your exercise total?

It added 80, and I haven't done anything but regular walking. I never know how to treat these extras. But sometimes it throws my net off at the end of the day so I'm not sure how to handle them.

fitbit said I burned 216 this morning during my beach walk, but now I'm up to 415 burned somehow.

_runnerbean_

I do sometimes eat back some of the fitbit calories- my MFP activity level is set to lightly active so fitbit starts adding calories if I go over 6k steps per day. You have to watch out though as fitbit calculates using a predicted daily step count so if you are very active in the morning fitbit will add calories. If you then sit down all afternoon fitbit will take some of those calories off again.

williams969

I eat almost every one. The bulk of my cardio is just walking across campus all day/week long between classes. So, yeah, in essence, I'm eating the "incidental" burn of necessary walking. As long as your MFP calorie deficit is set, and you eat at/below it, you're golden.

Oh, and I do like runnerbean, I realized there's a certain amount of "overestimation" that is erased later in the day. However, with experience, you'll "know" what you're usual calorie intake should be. For example, I have 3 weeks of average burns to look at--around 2,100 calories a day. I usually plan ~1,800 calories to eat, and add or subtract a treat or so in the evening to balance it out to a 250-300 calorie deficit, whatever the evening sync says.

nicsflyingcircus

I don't eat any of them, not on purpose anyway.

That being said, Sunday I was over 7500 steps (and I am set to sedentary) and it so happened I ate a ribeye that went over my calorie allowance by 125 and the 335 extra calories Fitbit gave me happened to keep me in the green, heh. I do not make a practice of that and it wasn't a purposeful "oh, I can eat more because I walked around a fair bit (3.75 miles, whoopdeedoo) today."