Fitbit Help

dbkrantz
dbkrantz Posts: 138
in Health and Weight Loss
Dear MFpals,

I have a question for you. I just fot the Fitbit ultra today and used it this afternoon as soon as I received it. So far I love it, it's a great way to get more active, but I am very confused!

On fitbit, it says that my burn is at 1800 calories or so for today.

For this, my fitnesspal has given me a little over 600 exercise calories (I set my net calorie goal at 1430 calories/day) which makes a total of just over 2000 calories for today including exercise. On Fitbit, the calorie goal has been set to sedentary meaning the more active I am, the more I get to eat but it will always count a calorie deficit that I set of 250 calories/day. Today, the calorie goal was set a 1550.

Today, I ate just a little under 1800 calories. Therefore, myfitnesspal counts 200 and some calories in the deficit while Fitbit says I over ate about 200 and some calories.

I am very confused about this and have no idea which one I should follow. Am I supposed to follow MFP or follow Fitbit and eat a little less.


Any help would be more than greatly appreciated,

Thanks so much,

Deborah

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  • dbkrantz
    dbkrantz Posts: 138
    Anyone?
  • jessjoye
    jessjoye Posts: 69 Member
    I will see if I can try and help, I have a fitbit too. In general, I have a sedentary office job where I sit on my butt all day! So, my calories are set at 1200/day. Fitbit says I can have 1021/day- well that is not a healthy amount!! I can barely eat 1200 and feel like I am eating a normal amount of food!

    My advice, use fitbit for what it was designed to do... get you to exercise more...
    Use myfitnesspal for what it was designed to do... track food and provide guideance on calories....

    Best of both worlds :) Good luck!!
  • dbkrantz
    dbkrantz Posts: 138
    Thanks for your reply.

    I do intend on using both but I am a little concerned on how accurate MFP is. It gave me 600 and some calories for just walking around a little bit and going up a few flights of stairs. Considering my calories burned from daily activities is around 1600 I am a little concerned that the 600 exercises calories is way to high for me.

    And I am also confused about the contradiction in calories for MFP and fitbit where one says I have extra calories and the other that I have over eaten.
  • jessjoye
    jessjoye Posts: 69 Member
    I get what you mean about the calories. I looked up how many calories they give you for cleaning and if I knew I could get that many calories for cleaning, WOW my house would be spotless :)

    I usually don't add workouts in MFP unless they were crazy hard, like I used weights, spin class, something that I think the fitbit will have a hard time figuring out. If the calories look off, I usually change the time. Like yesterday I went rollerskating with my daughters for 2 hours. It tried giving me 900 calories, I changed it to 30 minutes of rollerskating because I knew I didn't burn that many calories! Feel free to add me as a friend if you like, more than willing to try to help... I know I need it :) and GOOD LUCK!!

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