Fitbit Calorie Adjustment vs Entering Exercise

MisterOtter

Just kind of curious what those of you who also have FitBits do when it comes to logging your exercise. For the past month I've been content to just accept the FitBit calorie adjustment under my Exercise tab, and just let it do its thing. Tonight though I did a long session of lifting and running, and put on my HRM to just see where things fell.

According to the HRM I burned an average of 100 calories lifting, and 450 calories running (the treadmill, meanwhile, estimated 250 calories burned). I'm perfectly fine with underestimating my calories burned, and tend to divide anything the HRM says in half and log that. After today's long session though, I'm figuring I burned around 350 calories, yet my Fitbit calorie adjustment here says I've burned 75 calories. I get that it's averaging everything over a day, and with sitting in an office all day burning negligible calories, and then having a big exercise night will offset the average, but I just feel like I'm missing something.

TL;DR: Should I manually enter my calories burned according to the treadmill and HRM, or just accept the FitBit calorie adjustment based on my TDEE?

heatherlynne32

I, too, am confused by this. I'm very interested in what others have found out as well!

lilmisfit

I always delete the fitbit calorie adjustment if I've worked out. Instead, I set the timer on my fitbit when I start working out and log that activity record. If I didn't work out, I just leave the fitbit adjustment.