MFP & Fitbit change HR calorie chaos - help??

siljethnordheim517
siljethnordheim517 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 29 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi guys. I need some help. (And in advance, sorry for my crappy English).
I just got my Fitbit charge hr yesterday. I stared using it about 3pm, and by 11pm it had tracked 6620 steps, and 3503(!) calories.
It says that my bmr is about 1800, but there is no way that I have burned over 1700 calories after the BMR calories.. I added 30 minutes on a cross trainer, witch gave me about 306 calories burned. That sounds about right, because I'm in *kitten* shape (102 kilogram and 175 cm, 25 year old woman).

And should I log my training on MFP anfter a workout on a cross trainer? I noticed that the steps on Fitbit increased when I was on the cross trainer, like i was walking/running.. And after training I logged my training. Maybe the Fitbit counted it twice or something? But still, before the training the calories burned was still way high.. There is really no way that I have burned over 1700 calories just by taking 6000 steps (a bunch of these on the crosstrainer, it seems).

Does anyone have any explanation?

And more.. Yesterday the MFP said that my foodgoal was 1720 calories, 0 in food (had not added anything), that I had 1339 calories from training, at therefore 3059 remaining. This is insane, even if I had added food. How can this be right? Is it because it includes BMR??

As you can tell, i'm super confused right now...

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  • lynz4589
    lynz4589 Posts: 389 Member
    Im not sure I fully understand but basically I only use the fitbit calories to determine what Ive burned during thre day and workouts. As I wear my fitbit and use it to track exercise I don't also add the exercise to mfp as that's double recording it. I use mfp mainly for the food diary and the forums for great support and use fitbit for steps and calories rather than logging everything on both - hope this makes sense :)
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    MFP has had quite a few syncing issues with its tracking partner apps in the last few weeks, which may be causing your issues. Also, a partial first day with the Fitbit device may not be representative of your full daily amount. Fitbit collects data and uses the historical data to fine-tune the calculations, in effect, it "learns" your patterns over time and adjusts the calculations over the days and weeks. I would suggest giving the Fitbit a couple days to collect some initial data on your daily habits, and hold off logging your training as separate activities for a couple days until the MFP syncing issues are resolved and the Fitbit has collected enough daily data.

    ​Please see this article, and search for other helpful articles, on the MFP Help pages...

    https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/2309562-not-seeing-exercise-adjustment-or-steps-from-the-partner-linked-to-your-myfitnesspal-account

    Also, check out the Fitbit Users group on MFP.

    community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users
  • kat160505
    kat160505 Posts: 12 Member
    Goodness me, I've the opposite with mine, seems to say I've burnt too few calories! [in my opinion based on prev tech I used]
  • siljethnordheim517
    siljethnordheim517 Posts: 2 Member
    Hi. Thanks for your replies. It's now 3pm here where I live, and it now says about 1200 calories burned. That seems more right, as my bmr is about 1800, and I have pretty much been inactive so far.

    And, Lynz4589, I logged my training on the crossrunner on Fitbit, not mfp. My mistake. MFP still seems a bit off, but I'll try it out a couple more days
  • canadianmom1975
    canadianmom1975 Posts: 23 Member
    Also arebyou holding the button for 3seconds at the beginning and end of your excesise..yhen it knows to track your excersise...only log your excesise with fitbit and food..water with mfp...and you dont have to eat your excesise calories..sometimes i may eat no more then 50 percent back
  • CoffeeNCardio
    CoffeeNCardio Posts: 1,847 Member
    Something is wrong with the fitbit mfp link up right now. Read all about it:

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10325227/fitbit-calorie-adjustment-wrong#latest
  • jeepinshawn
    jeepinshawn Posts: 642 Member
    I think you have your terms mixed up. Your BMR is the base metabolic Rate, this is what your body would burn if you never got out of bed. Your fitbit will give you your TDEE -Total Daily Energy Expenditure. What you should do when syncing MFP with fitbit is set your activity level to sedentary and allow negative calorie adjustments. Then when your activity level raises your fitbit will report it to your MFP and you will get some extra calories. It will take a few days for your fitbit to give you an accurate TDEE measurement. Make sure you only log your non step based exercise in either fitbit or MFP, but not both.
  • Chupiite
    Chupiite Posts: 55 Member
    Hey, I have myself Fitbit charge hr, make sure that you set dominant or non dominant hand first of all, I have noticed a lot of times that my charge records my hand movements as a steps so it's why I simply don't let MFP log them as my exercise, for tracking exercise I always turn on activity tracking and at the end I log that into MFP
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