fitbit calories added...how?

PMcLinn
PMcLinn Posts: 27 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I need someone to dumb this down for me as I have read the other posts and I thought had it all figured out, but apparently not.

My account is set to sedentary

My 'normal calories burned' is 2510

My calorie allotment is 1500

I wear a fitbit and THOUGHT that when it registered I had burned the 2510 calories anything above and beyond that would be the extra calories that I can add to my daily allotment, but today, at 10:30AM it is saying I have burned only 1198 calories and has added 67 to my allotment. I am SOO confused! Can someone explain to me how it works? Does NOT eating all of the calories that you earn back have the potential to stall weight loss?

On another note, I have two messages from MFP that it won't let me delete and it keeps saying I have a new message, when In fact I don't....is there a way to delete them? It hurts my brain LOL

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  • pplf2001
    pplf2001 Posts: 133 Member
    Your fitbit will adjust throughout the day. The adjustment is based on the project burn for the whole day. The total on your fitbit (and on the fitbit dashboard) is the point you are at so far in the day for calorie burn. The fitbit adjustment will change throughout the day based on how much walking around you do at work/home and what excercise you do.

    Does that help?
  • PMcLinn
    PMcLinn Posts: 27 Member
    yep, I actually clicked on the adjustment spot on the app and it explained it there too LOL...I guess the adjustment for the day thing is weird for me, I go in spurts, I have a desk job but try to walk on my breaks and lunches, sometimes I work out in the mornings, sometimes go for a walk in the evening, and some evenings I get home, sit on the couch, and don't move LOL, I noticed today that it took away some of my calories after my walk and I had been sitting at my desk for two hours, poor thing is probably very confused.
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    yep, I actually clicked on the adjustment spot on the app and it explained it there too LOL...I guess the adjustment for the day thing is weird for me, I go in spurts, I have a desk job but try to walk on my breaks and lunches, sometimes I work out in the mornings, sometimes go for a walk in the evening, and some evenings I get home, sit on the couch, and don't move LOL, I noticed today that it took away some of my calories after my walk and I had been sitting at my desk for two hours, poor thing is probably very confused.

    It is not confused - it is trying to predict what the rest of your day will be like. I am similar - I have a desk job but walk a decent amount right before work dropping two kids off at two different schools and from the parking lot into my office - that can be around 3,500 steps and I will usually see a small adjustment of ~70 calories or so on MFP. Then I sit at my desk for a few hours with limited breaks and the small adjustment can go even smaller... if I walk on my lunch break for a solid 30-40 minutes then I will see the adjustment jump up, and then with my evening activities of getting kids from school, cooking, chasing kids around the house, etc I usually end up with a MFP adjustment anywhere from 300-400 by the end of the day.

    My MFP goal is 1700 and I changed my setting to lightly active after starting to see how many steps I do take and how many calories were burned from the FitBit. I set FitBit to easiest setting, so only 250 calorie a day reduction as I am within 5 lbs of goal weight. The advice I got was to try to get both your MFP settings and goals to closely resemble your FitBit settings and goals. As it is, FitBit usually shows about 50-100 calories less remaining at the end of the day than MFP but I think that is close enough for me.
  • PMcLinn
    PMcLinn Posts: 27 Member
    the confused comment was supposed to be a funny ;-). I have days where I will walk 10,00 steps in a few hours, and days where I can't get to 10,000 steps all day, I had over 400 calories 'left' last night, and well, the got left! I Just couldn't eat back that many calories, I walked over 11,000 steps in 5 hours, so I had a huge deficit . I am getting if figured out slowly but surely
  • sami_83
    sami_83 Posts: 161
    Re: your MFP messages- I had the same problem. The only way to delete them is to open them and delete them from there. I guess they really want us to read them? Haha
  • PMcLinn
    PMcLinn Posts: 27 Member
    thanks!!

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