question about fitbit

mygrl4meee
mygrl4meee Posts: 943 Member
edited February 16 in Health and Weight Loss
I love my fitbit but I have a question. Right now it says overall calories burned is 2000. I am rounding up to keep it simple
so I have had 1600 calories and probably won't have anything else tonight. Does this mean at the moment I am only at a 200 calorie under to lose weight? And if my fitbit says 2000 burned and I ate 2000 then its a wash. No gain. Loss? I am losing weight still but slow. Thanks for any insight any one can offer.

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  • chasetwins
    chasetwins Posts: 702 Member
    Yes - if your calorie burn according to fitbit is 2000 and you eat 2000...then you are not at a deficit. The fitbit dashboard like MFP tells you how many calories you have left according to how you have it set up.
  • mygrl4meee
    mygrl4meee Posts: 943 Member
    Thanks. One issue I have is that I have mfp and fitbit synced and at night it may say I have 300 calories left so then I eat some of them and close out the day under. But next day it will show me over. I am trying to ignore some of the calorie adjustment. Any ideas why it does that?
  • kimosabe1
    kimosabe1 Posts: 2,467 Member
    have a snickers or 2.
  • chasetwins
    chasetwins Posts: 702 Member
    How long have you had the fit bit? It takes awhile to be accurate with estimations of your daily calorie burn. You can turn that off though and have it a set amount instead.

    My burns vary day by day depending on what I am doing so I have it actual burn not estimation. Estimation will give you an average according to your past.
  • Chickaboo2014
    Chickaboo2014 Posts: 136 Member
    It seems to me it starts over at midnight, after you fall asleep so basically, you start over. You don't burn many calories sleeping.
    Also, are you entering your exercise on MFP only? I assume, yes. IDK if you know this, but on MFP, you are supposed to enter the time you started exercising and the amount of time spent exercising. This way, Fitbit will recognize it as the same workout and won't give you double credit for calories burned.
  • kewpiecyster
    kewpiecyster Posts: 154 Member
    The reason is because fitbit shows what you have burned up to that point - and MFP shows what the *expect* you to burn for the day. Fitbit will adjust based on your activity. I know for my days, I am most active throughout the day until dinner. And then I sit down and stay sitting until bed. So, when Fitbit syncs around 4 p.m. - MFP adjusts because I have been more active than normal...and it gives me some higher calories. HOWEVER - by the end of the night that adjustment goes down a little because I was pretty much inactive from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

    So, I try not to eat everything back, just to be on the safe side. Another thing to keep in mind - MFP has already accounted for your defecit - so eating up to make it a wash according to MFP is ok. So if MFP says you have 2000 to eat, and fitbit adds in 200 because of activity - MFP will say 2200. I normall would eat half of the fitbit adjustment back, so I would consume 2100 that day. This way when it evens out at the end of the night, I am right on target. If I eat that 2100 and it shows 0 calories left - I have still met the weight loss calories because MFP plans it that way.
  • mygrl4meee
    mygrl4meee Posts: 943 Member
    I have had it for a year. I only enter workouts on mfp but if I do something like a simple walk with the dogs i let fitbit do its thing. I do enter the time I workout. Where on fitbit do I change it so it doesn't guess?
  • chasetwins
    chasetwins Posts: 702 Member
    go to your fitbit dashboard - click on setting in the upper right hand side. It will default to your personal info - Scroll down to preferences it will show calorie estimation enabled. Change to disable and see if that helps :)
  • chasetwins
    chasetwins Posts: 702 Member
    another issue you may have - just thought about it is your plan on fitbit do you have it on custom? I have it on sedentary therefore I only get calories when i actually earn them...I would check this first before changing the settings for estimation
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