fitbit calorie burn count

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  • WaterBunnie
    WaterBunnie Posts: 1,371 Member
    I didn't think you could set your fitbit to sedentary - surely it's whole purpose is to decide that for you? As long as you have negative adjustments enabled in MFP then you won't overeat on lazy days whatever your activity level is set for in MFP because it'll adjust downwards rather than up.
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    WaterBunnie wrote: »
    I didn't think you could set your fitbit to sedentary - surely it's whole purpose is to decide that for you? As long as you have negative adjustments enabled in MFP then you won't overeat on lazy days whatever your activity level is set for in MFP because it'll adjust downwards rather than up.

    @WaterBunnie - it's for the food plan tile. You have 2 options when you look at the calories you can eat on Fitbit:
    1. Personalized : "Uses your past activity history to estimate your calorie burn for the day and increases or decreases if you're more or less active than usual."
    2. Sedentary: "Starts out low and lets you earn calories as you are active throughout the day.
      Note: with this setting you can start the day with a very low calorie estimate."
    It doesn't have to do with calories burned, just the area that shows what you can eat. The sedentary setting only gives you calories to eat as you earn them and the personalized gives you an estimate at the beginning of the day based on your history.
  • MommyMichelle1234
    MommyMichelle1234 Posts: 25 Member
    Weezoh wrote: »
    Once you link your fitbit to MFP when you enter cardio on MFP it asks you the time in addition to the duration; it then automatically removes tracked activity by the fitbit in that period. If you're walking or running you probably don't need to bother; but anything else you'll log as normal and MFP/FB will work it out for you. You don't actually need to log anything on fitbit (and it's much less confusing that way) because of the automatic syncing.

    What about activities also logged on Map My Fitness? Like biking or gym workouts? Will all three apps link and sync? Like.... if I leave the fit bit on while biking and use map my ride, will fitbit automatically calculate for that time frame? Or would I have to enter that info on the fitbit app instead of mapmyride?

    I like using map my fitness because of the gps capabilities.
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    christinev297 wrote: »
    @shadow2soul do you recommend setting fitbit to sedentary if you have mfp at sedentary? My fitbit is set to personalised and mfp sedentary

    @christinev297 - Don't worry about it unless you like to look at your fitbit dashboard to see what you can eat. If you do turn it on, for a large portion of the day it will say you can eat less than MFP will, so it can be helpful to have it turned on if your adjustment shrinks at the end of the day. Hopefully I'm not making that too confusing. An example:

    Fitbit set to Sedentary @ 8:26 AM - 634 calories is what I can eat as of right now.
    I haven't synced since I got up, so right now the calories to consume is based on my BMR minus a 750 calorie defict. As I start moving around this number will increase.
    Fitbit set to Personalized @ 8:31 AM - 1371 calories is what I can eat as of right now.
    Here Fitbit is estimating based on my history that even though it hasn't tracked movement as of the last sync, that from my history I will burn enough to eat at least this amount today. Now as the day goes on, it will change this estimate based on whatever my activity is like at the time of the sync. So if I'm active, it could end up giving me a higher estimate than I what I really need and end up taking away calories later. With the Sedentary setting, whatever the calories to eat tile shows is safe to eat, the number will only increase and you will never have the shock of losing calories later.
    MFP set to Lightly Active - 1230 calories before Fitbit Adjustment
    Since the Fitbit Adjustment is estimated by MFP, MFP will probably be giving you more calories to consume until the end of the day. It's similar to the Fitbit Personalized setting.

    Other than that, I recommend leaving 100-200 calories (or whatever you usually lose from your adjustment on MFP uneaten).
  • WaterBunnie
    WaterBunnie Posts: 1,371 Member
    shadow2soul wrote: »
    WaterBunnie wrote: »
    I didn't think you could set your fitbit to sedentary - surely it's whole purpose is to decide that for you? As long as you have negative adjustments enabled in MFP then you won't overeat on lazy days whatever your activity level is set for in MFP because it'll adjust downwards rather than up.

    @WaterBunnie - it's for the food plan tile. You have 2 options when you look at the calories you can eat on Fitbit:
    1. Personalized : "Uses your past activity history to estimate your calorie burn for the day and increases or decreases if you're more or less active than usual."
    2. Sedentary: "Starts out low and lets you earn calories as you are active throughout the day.
      Note: with this setting you can start the day with a very low calorie estimate."
    It doesn't have to do with calories burned, just the area that shows what you can eat. The sedentary setting only gives you calories to eat as you earn them and the personalized gives you an estimate at the beginning of the day based on your history.

    Ah that's what you meant. Has no bearing on the calories you end up with on MFP though either way.

  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    WaterBunnie wrote: »
    shadow2soul wrote: »
    WaterBunnie wrote: »
    I didn't think you could set your fitbit to sedentary - surely it's whole purpose is to decide that for you? As long as you have negative adjustments enabled in MFP then you won't overeat on lazy days whatever your activity level is set for in MFP because it'll adjust downwards rather than up.

    @WaterBunnie - it's for the food plan tile. You have 2 options when you look at the calories you can eat on Fitbit:
    1. Personalized : "Uses your past activity history to estimate your calorie burn for the day and increases or decreases if you're more or less active than usual."
    2. Sedentary: "Starts out low and lets you earn calories as you are active throughout the day.
      Note: with this setting you can start the day with a very low calorie estimate."
    It doesn't have to do with calories burned, just the area that shows what you can eat. The sedentary setting only gives you calories to eat as you earn them and the personalized gives you an estimate at the beginning of the day based on your history.

    Ah that's what you meant. Has no bearing on the calories you end up with on MFP though either way.

    Pretty much. It's useful for people who eat all their fitbit adjustment only to wake up and be told they went over. With the Sedentary setting they can check Fitbit to see where they are at calorie wise and if they eat all the calories they are allotted before bed according to Fitbit's tile, then they shouldn't wake up to being told they went over. It should put them either under or right at their goal. Hopefully that makes sense.
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