syncing fitbit with mfp

Is your activity level set to sedentary? Many times if you don't see the adjustment that you expect it is because you haven't yet moved enough to "earn" the extra calories.

If I tell MFP that I am active and I take a short walk, I might not earn any calories because I still haven't moved enough to earn more calories than an active person would on an ordinary day. I won't begin earning calories until I move MORE than what an active person would be expected to.

siillyliilyy wrote: »

Its set to active because I'm always on my feet and in the gym once a day. I just wish it would send my calorues burnt from my fitbit and log it into mfp.. Without manually adding it to mfp and having it double up in my fitbit... Is that possible?

If you want to see adjustments without doing more activity, you will have to adjust your activity level to "sedentary."

Right now you are burning UNDER the calories allotted for an active person. That's why you're not seeing adjustments. You would begin to see adjustments when you burned MORE than what would be expected for an active person. This is to prevent you from counting calories twice and eating more.

If you want to see adjustments sooner, you can tell Fitbit you're sedentary. You will begin to see adjustments earlier in the day if you're moving more (I'm set at sedentary and I begin to see adjustments at a few thousand steps, very early in the morning). MFP combined with Fitbit isn't really designed to track all your exercise -- it's designed to credit you with extra calories when you move more than your activity level (which determines your calorie goal) indicates.