Does anyone eat back their Fitbit adjustment calories?

_J_en
_J_en Posts: 40 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi,

I see a lot of high Fitbit adjustments that increase the net calories.

Who eats the calories back? And should you?

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  • ladyraven68
    ladyraven68 Posts: 2,003 Member
    Hi,

    I see a lot of high Fitbit adjustments that increase the net calories.

    Who eats the calories back? And should you?

    If you're having high fitbit adjustments, your MFP activity setting is probably too low.

    Look at your Home, then Goals page.

    At the top right is a figure for Calories burnt during daily activity. This is what MFP thinks you will use in a day, based on the information you input. then it deducts a defict to give you your calorie goal..

    if MFP says 1800, but your fitbit says 2000, you will get an extra 200 calories per day.

    I count mine, otherwise what's the point in actuially having the fitbit?
  • rfsatar
    rfsatar Posts: 599 Member
    It all depends on how much planned exercise I have done in the day.
    At the moment I am set to Lightly active on MFP and in my TDEE and BMR calcs and I think it is now about right..

    I eat to a TDEE deficit range, so it really comes down to how much exercise I have done that day. If I have been at the gym/pool, then I eat a proportion of those back until I am in my deficit range and then I have some wiggle room if I am still peckish.
    On my rest/stretch days, I tend to obviously burn a lot less, and therefore much more reliant on making that deficit range using FB adjusted calories.

    I bought my FB off the back of joining here for the all-day calories to be added - so yes sometimes that adjustment can be very necessary for hitting healthy calorie levels through the day, but I use MFP to judge how much more I can have in my day, not FB.
  • HardRockCamaro
    HardRockCamaro Posts: 147
    My adjustment is normally 50-120 cals of extra allowance.
    On around 1700cals allowance anyway that's around 5% difference and I doubt the estimates/measurements are that accurate.

    So I don't make sure I eat them back and if I do by chance I don't feel bad about going over my 1700 or so target (which is 750 below my needs so I lose weight). I'm still at a good deficit and that is enough for me.

    If I was trying to maintain weight as opposed to lose it I'd pay closer attention and experiment with a couple if weeks not eating it back vs a couple of weeks of eating it back.

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