FitBit Cals not being logged on MFP

carolineball17
carolineball17 Posts: 1
edited November 2024 in Introduce Yourself
I use FitBit to track calories burnt and I told it I was doing cardio. I did the elliptical for an hour and based on the machine's estimation with my weight entered, I burnt about 600 cals. Overall my daily burn according to FitBit I've burnt 2,353 calories today, but on MFP it hasn't added my burnt calories from FitBit. So it says allotted cals (1220) + cals eaten (1753) + cals burnt (0) = 553 over. When I manually entered the 600 cals, then my fitbit said I did 2 hours of exercise instead of the one. How do I make this so the calories automatically sync?

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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    You log your exercise calories into MFP not Fitbit (it then puts the info into Fitbit .. by magic or gnome carriers or something)

    You shouldn't believe the machine estimates though - take 50 - 75% of the calories it gives you - they overestimate a lot (MFP database also does) - you can adjust the calories by double-clicking as you enter into MFP (don't believe the MFP database either)

  • sheepotato
    sheepotato Posts: 600 Member
    You can set it to sync here: https://www.myfitnesspal.com/apps/show/30

    I didn't like having it automatically sync because I wear my fitbit all day and it was adding exercise calories constantly throughout the day. I preferred to manually log exercise.
  • LexGN
    LexGN Posts: 24 Member
    I used to wear a heart rate monitor, but it actually figured more calories burned than either the machines or MFP. I lost 30 pounds in 5 months, and it worked to use the heart rate monitor to figure calories burned. I ate back any calories that made my net less that 1200....(make sense?) So if my net calories were 1400 after exercise calories added, I didn't eat any back, but if I ate 1200 calories, burned 400, I'd eat 400 more.
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