Fitbit and tracking exercise

dlveck
dlveck Posts: 51 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've had the fitbit about 2 weeks now. There are a few things that constantly confuse me...

1. The fitbit tracks your steps...whether it be running or walking. When the fitbit syncs with MFP it gives me a calorie adjustment based on what fitbit says I burned. So, when I am walking for fitness (not just regular daily walking) I've also been logging that in MFP as exercise. Am I double dipping my calories burned?

2. When I do log exercise, should I be logging it with fitbit or with MFP or not at all and let fitbit do the logging as an adjustment?

3. Does the fitbit register steps while I'm on the elliptical? If I'm wearing the fitbit during the elliptical do I log that as separate exercise?

4. Would it make more sense for me to delete the fitbit adjustment and just continue to log my fitness exercise as though I don't have the fitbit and use the excess calories burned through TDEE as a buffer?

Help!

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  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    I've had the fitbit about 2 weeks now. There are a few things that constantly confuse me...

    1. The fitbit tracks your steps...whether it be running or walking. When the fitbit syncs with MFP it gives me a calorie adjustment based on what fitbit says I burned. So, when I am walking for fitness (not just regular daily walking) I've also been logging that in MFP as exercise. Am I double dipping my calories burned?

    2. When I do log exercise, should I be logging it with fitbit or with MFP or not at all and let fitbit do the logging as an adjustment?


    1, You don't need to log walking since it is already tracking your walking.

    2. I log it on MFP. I think it doesn't matter where you log it as long as you log it in the same place consistently? But since I always long on MFP I'm not totally sure.

    I don't use an elliptical so not sure on that one...
  • schmenge55
    schmenge55 Posts: 745 Member
    I just got my fitbit last weekend and have the same questions. From what I can tell the fitbit DOES make a calorie adjustment for running and elliptical. I am not sure how accurate it is, but it does "see" my steps for both of these and does seem to increase the calorie burn based upon my pace

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