Who Has Lost Using Fitbit's Numbers?

I also feel like my Fitbit tells me I can eat way more that I need to. I try to stick to my 1760 that fitness pal gives me, and that seems to be working. I lost almost 8 pounds in a month doing this.

I have a FitBit One since almost 2 yrs out of which i have used it daily since this Jan now. It is very accurate for me. Though sometimes it logs stairs for me that i haven't climbed, but the end calorie count turns out to be quite accurate. Because my loss stats end of the week seem to match the deficit i have in the week.

I use the Charge HR as well and I have been having very good success staying within the caloric range it gives me.

I didnt realize that could happen. eeekk I think I eat back about half of my exercise most of the time tho. My FB user ID is https://www.fitbit.com/user/4K9TK4 if you want a friend on there

I also have a Charge HR. I have MFP set to lose 2lbs/week, so I'm given 1730 calories a day. I do NOT have my Fitbit and MFP linked. I did before, and eating back ALL of the Fitbit adjusted calories was NOT working for me! So, I manually enter in half of my daily exercise calories into MFP that Fitbit calculated. Sometimes I don't even need those extra calories, though.

Ordered a fit bit today .. Should be in within the week .. Looking for fit bit pals since I found out you can use a app that connects other fit bit friends
Add me if you would like to add me

I have the charge. Since July 1st last year I've lost 43lbs. I log my food, pay attention to my fitbit numbers, and make the assumption that fitbit probably overestimates by a few % and that I probably underestimate by a few % so we cancel each other out. My losses have been pretty consistent with the figures so I'm confident that it's worked.

gandssmith wrote: »

i'm do dumb. i've had my fitbit for a while. have never really paid attention to the total calories burned for the day. so do you just look at the total calories burned for that day and keep your calories in so many below that to lose? How many calories should you stay below to lose a pound or two a wk? i've been at a stand still for a long time. i've tried lower my calories, upping my calories, eating back my calories. nothing seems to be working.

@gandssmith
If you link MFP and your Fitbit accounts, it will do the math for you and figure out what is extra that you can eat and add the extra calories as an adjustment in your exercise diary. At the end of the day, your MFP goal + Fitbit adjustment should be anywhere from 250-1000 calories under your Fitbit calorie burn (depending on which rate of loss you selected). If MFP is set to Sedentary, you will probably see very large adjustments. If you set MFP to Lightly Active or higher, it will take longer to get calories added and if you have negative adjustments turned on you will actually start the day with a negative adjustment (losing calories).

If you aren't losing, have you double checked the entries you are using from the database? There is a lot of stuff that's really off (I saw a chicken entry that was about 1/3 the calories it should have been not to long ago).
Also, if not already, have you considered using a food scale to weight out portions (it's more accurate than measuring cups and has less clean up)?

I have the same fitbit as you and I just eat when I'm hungry. I'm usually pretty spot on with my cals that mfp gives me. And using that I'm losing weight a lot easier than I was with just mfp before. It probably has something to do with the fitbit app because I want to see all the goals green at the end of the day ya know? So it makes me push myself harder than I normally would.

I have the Charge HR. I've had it since November, but I was cautious of using too many of the calories up until the last three or so months. With MFP set for 2lbs/week, I am losing at that rate while eating most, but not all, of my Fitbit calories. This is going by monthly averages and not each week's loss.

FitBit + MFP has been freakily accurate for me.

I have a Fitbit Alta.
So I was curious whether the calories out minus calories in (logged using MFP), along with the resulting calories balance given by Fitbit app would equal what I saw on the scale. This was using 20 days worth of figures.

Fitbit says my daily burn is approx 2400 cal.
Fitbit set my daily intake to be 1940 calories giving me a 500 cal a day deficit to result in 1lb a week.

I added up all the calories taken in 37,424 averaged to 1872.2.
I added up what my Fitbit Alta reported to be my daily burned calories, 48,821, averaged to 2441.05.
Here's the math :-)
2441.05 - 1872.2 = 569.8 x 20 = 11,398 / 3500 = 3.25 lbs

3.25 lbs is what Fitbit says I should have lost in those twenty days.
What my scale said...3.14 for that 20 days.

I was very pleased to see the results. :-)

So this helps me to trust the apps and the Fitbit Alta more. Especially when my scale fluctuates because of whether I'm retaining water that day or whatever the variables might be that weigh in day which make you go...how come it says I gained a lb in a day?!?! Arrgh!

Connie

I find my fitbit underestimates what I am doing. I have a flex so does not take HR or do stairs so when I carry my daughter around or running up and down steps.

I have had my fitbit for a couple of years now, didn't lose hardly anything (but there were other issues involved I recently discovered), anyway Mine is a fitbit flex and I have it on my non dominate hand, but I have my setting set to the dominate one and sensitivity set to normal. I feel that it is now more accurate for my calorie burn and I have finally started losing some weight. So if you are having trouble losing then try adjusting your settings....not sure if you can do that on the other ones.

I had it set on non dominant hand and sensative