fitbit calorie adjustment

Mrs_K_
Mrs_K_ Posts: 23 Member
edited November 18 in Fitness and Exercise
I got a fitbit as an anniversary gift Friday. I am very happy with it and feel it pretty close to being accurate. The only problem I am having is my calorie adjustment on mfp. It says on my dashboard that I have burned 591 calories today but I am only getting a calorie adjustment of 251 calories. Why is that? I will add I have a fitbit charge hr.

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  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    Your Fitbit burn is TDEE (aka your maintenance calories). Adjustments are the difference between your Fitbit burn and your MFP activity level.

    You can learn more in the Fitbit Users group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users
  • PopeyeCT
    PopeyeCT Posts: 249 Member
    edited May 2015
    There is an activity level in your MFP profile that MFP uses to make a guess at how many calories you're likely to burn during the course of your day. Fitbit tells MFP exactly how many calories you really did burn, so MFP adjusts for the difference and gives you credit. It can also take away calories, which can happen if you have it on "active" and you sit at a desk all day.
    Mrs_K_ wrote: »
    . It says on my dashboard that I have burned 591 calories today but I am only getting a calorie adjustment of 251 calories.
    So this means that the 591 calories reported by Fitbit is 251 more than what MFP expected you to burn. The two numbers won't ever be exactly the same. The bigger the better. That means you've been more active.

    So the number could actually be negative. Although there is an option to turn off negative adjustments.

    I saw a suggestion when I got mine a couple weeks ago to set my activity to "sedentary" and leave negative on, then just let Fitbit take care of it. It's working great.

    Grats on your Fitbit!
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    If (and only if) you enable negative calorie adjustments, then eating back your Fitbit adjustments means you're eating TDEE minus deficit: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
  • Mrs_K_
    Mrs_K_ Posts: 23 Member
    Ok great. Thanks for the advice I will do that!
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