Fitbit and eating exercise calories?

sharibrat

Just got my fitbit today and am reading about how it works, how fitness pal adjusts, etc.

When I was using just MFP, it adds your exercise calories to your fixed daily calorie consumption, so you 'eat your extra calories'. Now with synching to fitbit, the two don't agree and it seems like you don't eat your exercise calories. There seems to be no fixed daily calorie 'goal' in fitbit, it seems to change throughout the day, so I don't think it's possible for the two websites to have the same goal and the same "calories left" number.
So, do you still eat your exercise calories or not? One says I have 300 to eat and the other says 600....which to go by??

mangobadango

Hi there! Have you synced MFP and FitBit? You can do this under Tools. Once you do that, FitBit will add calories to your exercise area as a FitBit Adjustment.

As far as the number of calories to eat, I like to aim for 85% of what FitBit is telling me I burned for the day. But that is a personal preference. When I first got my FitBit I did an excel spreadsheet that showed how many calories I ate, how many calories FitBit told me I burned and what my weight was each day. This helped me to come to the conclusion that I need to eat between 85-90% of my FitBit Calories burned.

When I'm not involved in an exercise challenge on here I don't track my exercise at all, I just let FitBit pick up the calories burned for the day.

sharibrat

I do have the two synched but they never agree. I am not sure if I should go by the calories that MFP is telling me I have left, or the calories that fitbit tells me I have left.....