Still confused about fitbit!

juliaky84
juliaky84 Posts: 72 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
My calorie goal on MPF is 1500 for a 250 cal deficit per day. I am sedentary. It was be 1750 cal for weight maintenance.

I would like to know what my fitbit zip estimates for my BMR. It should also be around 1750 right?

I cannot even find on the dashboard where it estimates a calorie goal for me - please help.

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  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    at http://www.fitbit.com/ the thing with a flame is how many calories Fitbit thinks you have used, If you click that it flips round and shows the calorie goal.
  • juliaky84
    juliaky84 Posts: 72 Member
    Ah yes I just found it thank you.

    I don't understand why fitbit says my goal is to burn 2300 cal per day? How in the world did it come up with that. And I don't see how that number relates to my calorie goal from MFP (which is 1500 cal per day). Help please!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    BMR isn't maintenance calories...BMR is your basal calories...just the calories you burn generally existing. I assume you do more than simply exist....

    My BMR is 1780 calories....my TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditures)....my maintenance is 2,800 - 3,000 calories per day depending. I do a whole lot more than simply existing....
  • Followingsea
    Followingsea Posts: 407 Member
    Ah yes I just found it thank you.

    I don't understand why fitbit says my goal is to burn 2300 cal per day? How in the world did it come up with that. And I don't see how that number relates to my calorie goal from MFP (which is 1500 cal per day). Help please!

    That's a suggested stretch goal. You can revise it to something more attainable if you want. (Click on the gear on that tab to update that goal). I would advise leaving it for now, figuring out what your average daily burn is for a week or so, then setting it for 100-300 calories above that. It's a goal, after all.

    Your MFP goal is to eat your daily burn minus X calories, basically. They should about match.
  • juliaky84
    juliaky84 Posts: 72 Member
    Thank you.

    Now, will fitbit also give me an estimate of calories to eat?
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    I let fitbit.com increase my food calories on MFP, I don't manually log exercise normally.

    So if you set up MFP for sedentary with your chosen weight loss rate / deficit the fitbit will autocorrect if you're more active than you told MFP.
  • Followingsea
    Followingsea Posts: 407 Member
    Thank you.

    Now, will fitbit also give me an estimate of calories to eat?

    It will, and if you connect your accounts MFP will adjust your daily calories based off of how active you've been to maintain a daily deficit of -250. If you haven't already done that you can do it here: https://www.myfitnesspal.com/apps/show/30

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