Deleting my Fitbit exercise calories?

nschuenman
nschuenman Posts: 2 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I just got a Fitbit and linked it to my account on here and during the day it will add all my activity calories but, at the end of the day it deletes it. So looking at the past few days it has none of my exercise counted. Has anyone else had this problem?

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  • Can_Do_Gal
    Can_Do_Gal Posts: 1,142 Member
    Fitbit syncs with MFP every time you sync your Fitbit with your app (or computer). The number you see is based on what you've done so far (measured by your Fitbit) versus what MFP calculates you should have done so far (based on the settings you gave it, so sedentary, lightly active, etc.) If you exercise early in the day but then sit around the rest of the day, what will happen is just what you described. You'll see calories early on (reflecting your higher than expected burn), and then as the day goes on, they go away (reflecting that even though it had calculated you were going to end up ahead, by the time midnight hit, your calorie burn for the day was just at MFP's original estimate). If it says your Fitbit adjustment is zero (0), that's what happened. Unfortunately, you need to move more than you've been moving to burn extra calories.

    If you don't have negative calorie adjustments turned on (on MFP), it could actually even be that you burned _less_ than what MFP calculated you were going to. If that's happening, it will still show zero until you turn on negative adjustments.

    Good luck!
  • nschuenman
    nschuenman Posts: 2 Member
    Ok that makes sense! Thank you for the help! I only wear my Fitbit while I exercise because because it annoys me. I'll probably just give it to my mom because I can't see myself wearing it all day.

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