Anyone Stop Using Their FitBit?

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  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    But there's another question: wearing it as a pedometer, merely so I keep motivated and keep moving while not in the gym ... do I include gym steps (workouts) or take it off while I am there?
    Do you include gym steps in what? What you eat back? I'd say not if you're also eating back based on whatever estimator you use when you don't wear it. Include them in your steps goal for the day? Sure, why not? Though either way is fine, it's your personal goal so include/exclude anything.
  • sjlawgirl
    sjlawgirl Posts: 31 Member
    Is it that you're not seeing your food calories show up on Fitbit or that your Fitbit adjustment here at MFP shows up as zero for most of the day?

    If it's the latter, go to MFP, My Home, Goals, and look at your number under Calories Burned in Normal Daily Activity. Then go to Fitbit and look at your total calorie burn so far today. The MFP number doesn't change. Say it's 2800. You don't get a Fitbit adjustment until the value of your total burned from your Fitbit exceeds 2800. The difference is your adjustment. So it's normal for that to be 0 for most or even all of the day.

    It doesn't show "fitbit calorie adjustment" at all on MFP. Even if its "0" it will still post as that after a sync but its not doing that. Hence the unlinking and relinking and then BOOM...there it is. Annoying.
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    So it's not really that you're not synching, you're becoming unlinked entirely? Does your food synch over to Fitbit?
  • FitnessRXusaAnna
    FitnessRXusaAnna Posts: 44 Member
    1000 calorie deficiencies!!! You are damaging your metabolism for the future. Can you sustain your current lifestyle for the rest of your life?

    People think the equation goes sonething like this.

    ((( what I eat - exercise/activity = my weight )))

    This in fact is impossible because energy ( food ) and mass ( your weight ) are not the same thing. :sad:
    A calorie in is NOT a calorie out. Metabolism is not that simple. If it was why is america still getting fatter despite the 100 cal snack packs ect ..........

    I'm thinking many of you are on here to reduce your body fat not just your weight.
    I have no affiliation with this site but it gives you good sound information on fat loss and why despite losing weight you gained it back. This especially possible if you have lost 10% of your previous weight you started at.
  • jrwms714
    jrwms714 Posts: 421 Member
    But there's another question: wearing it as a pedometer, merely so I keep motivated and keep moving while not in the gym ... do I include gym steps (workouts) or take it off while I am there?
    Do you include gym steps in what? What you eat back? I'd say not if you're also eating back based on whatever estimator you use when you don't wear it. Include them in your steps goal for the day? Sure, why not? Though either way is fine, it's your personal goal so include/exclude anything.
  • jrwms714
    jrwms714 Posts: 421 Member
    But there's another question: wearing it as a pedometer, merely so I keep motivated and keep moving while not in the gym ... do I include gym steps (workouts) or take it off while I am there?
    Do you include gym steps in what? What you eat back? I'd say not if you're also eating back based on whatever estimator you use when you don't wear it. Include them in your steps goal for the day? Sure, why not? Though either way is fine, it's your personal goal so include/exclude anything.

    Sorry I was unclear. I meant that I have MFP log my exercise cals as well as my food cals. Because I am now using my FitBit for steps ONLY, do I take it off during gym workouts, or do I include those steps in my daily goal? I am not using those steps for anything like calorie counting or calorie adjustment - merely to motivate me to get more steps in during the day.
  • nuttyfamily
    nuttyfamily Posts: 3,394 Member
    But there's another question: wearing it as a pedometer, merely so I keep motivated and keep moving while not in the gym ... do I include gym steps (workouts) or take it off while I am there?
    Do you include gym steps in what? What you eat back? I'd say not if you're also eating back based on whatever estimator you use when you don't wear it. Include them in your steps goal for the day? Sure, why not? Though either way is fine, it's your personal goal so include/exclude anything.

    Sorry I was unclear. I meant that I have MFP log my exercise cals as well as my food cals. Because I am now using my FitBit for steps ONLY, do I take it off during gym workouts, or do I include those steps in my daily goal? I am not using those steps for anything like calorie counting or calorie adjustment - merely to motivate me to get more steps in during the day.

    I think only you can answer that. I wear mine even when I go for my runs, etc. I like to see my full day, workouts included.

    If your focus is to get in more steps sans workouts, then don't wear it during your workouts.
  • jrwms714
    jrwms714 Posts: 421 Member
    Great, easy answer. All is clarified for me and I'm happily moving with my FitBit as of this moment!

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