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Still getting used to allowed cals being bumped up

txrn123
txrn123 Posts: 47 Member
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Not so much on my off days but on the days I work (nurse) 12 hr shifts by the end of the day my MFP goal has gone from 1340 to as high as 1900. It will increase throughout the shift because I am running around so much (5 to 6 miles, per FB). So I will spread the food I bring with me throughout the shift and then still have an extra 300-400 for any after work/midnight snack but I leave enough to where I am still 100 or so below the MFP goal for the day.

I trust FB but I guess I worry about trusting it too much and worry a little that eating those extra 500-600 cals will mess up my weight loss.

Anyone have issues with eating up to changes through the day MFP goal after FB uploads info to it? Has it effected your progress?

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  • wolfordwebsites
    wolfordwebsites Posts: 24 Member
    I have the same issue, fitbit gives me 500-600 call every day extra. However, it has not changed my weight-loss. I've lost 17 pounds in two months, and I eat back almost all of my exercise calories. SW 213
    CW 196
  • JAT74
    JAT74 Posts: 1,081 Member
    Try and ignore the calories burned according to FB. I generally set my MFP goal to what I think I need to be able to lose 0.5lbs per week without exercise, which I think is in the region of 1250. I then allow myself to eat a daily average across the week of 1350 regardless of the activity I do that day. I do the 5:2 diet so I work out my weekly calories based on that figure and 5 days a week eat up to 1600 with the other two days at 550.

    In my case I think the BMR and TDEE calories all the calculators give me are inaccurate and my true numbers are much lower as I don't lose much weight, probably no more than 0.5 lbs per week even eating an average of 1350 and working out daily.

    My fitbit tells me that almost every day I burn off between 1900-2300 but I'm eating at 1350 and not losing much so I should be losing 1-2lbs per week which isn't the case. As I've been exercising daily since 5th January this year without a day off I don't know what would happen if I did less but I use these numbers more as a way to become more active and to keep an eye on my activity level than to eat more because personally I know I can't get away with it.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    I, too, was shocked when Fitbit gave me so many calories. But I ate them all back, lost the weight, and have maintained for eight months.

    Trust your Fitbit for several weeks, then reevaluate your progress.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    edited March 2015
    You should worry more about leaving an extra 300-400 calories along with the deficit you have taken.

    That's a great way to make the body adapt by slowing down, causing the Fitbit to now inflate daily calorie burn, and then you get the situation like the poster above where you must eat even lower and lower just to get a slow weight loss.
    That will likely suck trying to reach goal, and even worse at maintenance.

    Why not prevent muscle mass loss by reaching your goal.
    If you burn more, why not eat more.

    Shouldn't you always eat correctly for your level of activity, even if that means it's higher than average?
    That's a lesson you'll have to learn of you hope to maintain goal weight anyway.

    Fitbit actually underestimates your daily burn.
    It assigns sleeping level calorie burn, BMR, to all non-moving time.
    But when awake you burn more - RMR.
    When standing you burn even more.
    When digesting processing food you burn about 10% of what you eat.
    All that is not accounted for in daily burn.

    Nope - eat up, plan better if needed.
    Enjoy the results of your hard work.

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