Fitbit or MFP for tracking - help please

stsquirrel
stsquirrel Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Do I track my food on my Fitbit app or on MFP - I can't remember what I use to do before I got discouraged and deleted all apps related to fitness. Thanks

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  • DuckReconMajor
    DuckReconMajor Posts: 434 Member
    Track your food in MFP, not the FitBit app
  • thankyou4thevenom
    thankyou4thevenom Posts: 1,581 Member
    edited July 2015
    MFP has a better range of foods but both sites transfer the info back and forth.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    stsquirrel wrote: »
    Do I track my food on my Fitbit app or on MFP - I can't remember what I use to do before I got discouraged and deleted all apps related to fitness. Thanks

    Log food & drink (including water) in MFP. No need to log any step-based activity—your Fitbit is tracking it for you. Log non-step exercise (like swimming or biking) either in Fitbit or in MFP—never both.

    You can learn more in the Fitbit Users group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users
  • PneumaVision
    PneumaVision Posts: 44 Member
    Just enter everything in MFP. Enable negative calorie adjustment if desired. I do this so that the calorie goal doesn't keep increasing so much. Since MFP entries have the time period, you pretty much can't mess it up, even if you enter things like walking the dog, which you probably wouldn't do anyway.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    edited July 2015
    Error4 wrote: »
    Enable negative calorie adjustment if desired. I do this so that the calorie goal doesn't keep increasing so much.

    Without negative calorie adjustments enabled (in your diary settings), you'll never eat at a true deficit on days you burn fewer calories than your activity level: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
  • PneumaVision
    PneumaVision Posts: 44 Member
    I just don't want to see silly stratospheric calorie goal numbers, which is what I'd see otherwise.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    Your Fitbit burn is TDEE (total daily energy expenditure), the calories necessary to maintain your current weight. Your default MFP calorie goal is activity level minus deficit.

    If (and only if) you enable negative calorie adjustments, eating back your Fitbit adjustments means you're eating TDEE minus deficit.
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