Mfp has gone haywire

lisaw19855
lisaw19855 Posts: 165 Member
edited November 2024 in Getting Started
Today I've eaten 1450 calories and fitbit is showing I have burned 2450 calories.

However, in my diary it's showing calories burned from mfp 2400 and fitbit as 2450 but apparently at 1450 calories I've eaten 300 too many.

My goals are the same, 500 calorie deficit.

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  • afatpersonwholikesfood
    afatpersonwholikesfood Posts: 577 Member
    My Fitbit/MFP sync has been screwed up for a couple of days now.
  • lisaw19855
    lisaw19855 Posts: 165 Member
    I seem to be having nothing but trouble. Some days it adds fitbit adjustments twice so I need to manually add calories to my food intake.

    And they keep asking me to upgrade.
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    edited January 2016
    It's MFP's issue, not fitbit's. It's happening to almost everyone I know that has one.

    Btw, if it's adding twice, you can simply edit out one of the duplicate entries from your "Add Exercise" tab on your home page here instead of messing with your calories eaten. :)

    That was my issue earlier this week, but now MFP is giving me less than half of my exercise calories earned.
  • MKEgal
    MKEgal Posts: 3,250 Member
    Or just ignore exercise in re calories / weight loss.
    That's actually safest, since most people underestimate what they eat and most machines
    overestimate calories burned.
    For most people, most of the time, they pretty much cancel out.
    Neither my weight doc (endocrinologist specializing in weight issues) or dietitician had ever heard of
    "eating back" exercise calories. Told me just to eat at my healthy calorie goal.
  • lisaw19855
    lisaw19855 Posts: 165 Member
    MKEgal wrote: »
    Or just ignore exercise in re calories / weight loss.
    That's actually safest, since most people underestimate what they eat and most machines
    overestimate calories burned.
    For most people, most of the time, they pretty much cancel out.
    Neither my weight doc (endocrinologist specializing in weight issues) or dietitician had ever heard of
    "eating back" exercise calories. Told me just to eat at my healthy calorie goal.

    It's not about eating my calories back its about eating enough to maintain healthy weight loss and keeping tabs on it.

    I'm working with a personal trainer and a nutritionist which a doctor is not.

    There is such thing as eating too little which means the body isn't absorbing nutrients and can cause muscle wastage.

    So while I don't eat ALL my exercise calories back if I eat 1250 calories and burning around 2500 I may need to top up a little before I make myself ill.
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