FitBit: Logging Calories Burned

Serenifly
Serenifly Posts: 669 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hello ladies (and gents)

I wear a fitbit, since I had a baby 16 weeks ago walking and hiking is my only real exercise, I aim to get over 10,000 steps a day and am managing losing a lb a week doing so.

Thing is; I synch my fitibit at night and says (example) 12,000 steps for day, 2,190 calories burned. so I put in those calories burned and gain a few extra thousand calories to eat! (of course I never do!) but then it reads 'in 5 weeks you will lose _____"

do you think this is accurate? Is it OK to put that many calories burned in the journal ...

also side note, I already consume 2000 calories per day because I'm breastfeeding and need to keep my supply up

thanks! :)

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  • chasetwins
    chasetwins Posts: 702 Member
    you should sync fit bit with MFP - then it will add your accurate extra calories
  • Serenifly
    Serenifly Posts: 669 Member
    hmmmmmm you can do that?!??! do you know how? I had no idea! haha I've been using one for over a year!
  • chasetwins
    chasetwins Posts: 702 Member
    Yup are you on a computer or your phone?
  • Serenifly
    Serenifly Posts: 669 Member
    Iphone 4s and have a FitBit Zip (updating to Flex next week)
  • Serenifly
    Serenifly Posts: 669 Member
    congrats on the weight loss btw! amazing almost 60 lbs!!!
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    Connect your accounts at http://www.myfitnesspal.com/apps/show/30

    Log food & drink in MFP. Do not log step based exercise. Log non-step workouts either in MFP or in Fitbit. I find Fitbit's burns to be way more accurate than MFP's one-size-fits-all guesstimates. If you log in MFP, you're asked for start & end times and MFP overrides your step data during your workout.

    MFP has a Fitbit Users group: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/1307-fitbit-users
  • chasetwins
    chasetwins Posts: 702 Member
    just wanted computer or phone to tell you how lol - go to apps & devices on your MFP app - find fitbit and hit connect - follow prompts (log in info)

    And thank you :)
  • Serenifly
    Serenifly Posts: 669 Member
    Awesome~!!!! Thanks guys!!! that's awesome :) Log food on MFP and non fitbit step exercises :) perfect!

    Are you expected to eat your exercise steps even with fitbit?
  • chasetwins
    chasetwins Posts: 702 Member
    if MFP estimates your calorie burn lower than fitbit - having it syncs it will adjust your allotted calories for you :)
  • Serenifly
    Serenifly Posts: 669 Member
    Yeah I notice that! haha went from 2300 calories extra to 194!!! that's great because I didn't want false hope I'd be losing 20 lbs in 5 weeks lol
  • chasetwins
    chasetwins Posts: 702 Member
    LMAO ya I pay NO attention to that "you'll lose X amount" - was hardly ever accurate either way :/
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    Are you expected to eat your exercise steps even with fitbit?
    Your Fitbit burn is your TDEE.

    When you set up your MFP account, you specified an activity level: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided MFP used your answer, plus your age, sex & height, to estimate how many calories you burn every day (not including exercise). Then you set your weight-loss goal, and MFP subtracted the appropriate deficit to calculate your daily calorie goal.

    Once you link an activity tracker to your MFP account (via the "Apps" tab at the top of every page), you start getting calorie adjustments. If your tracker says you burned more calories than MFP estimated, you get a positive adjustment (meaning more calories to eat). If you enable negative calorie adjustments and you burn less than the MFP estimate, you will lose calories. (But negative calorie adjustments will never drop your daily calories below 1,200.)
  • Serenifly
    Serenifly Posts: 669 Member
    Thanks guys!!!! very helpful! :)

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