fitbit users...,question!

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  • lmew91
    lmew91 Posts: 88 Member
    I wear my Fitbit Alta pretty much every day, and I usually hit the 10,000 step goal, often ending up with about 12,000 steps. I don't really pay a lot of attention to how many calories it gives me because I don't eat back the calories it gives me. I do know that I've never been in the 1,000's for exercise calories. I don't really think I burn as many calories as it gives me credit for, but I don't really worry about it because I focus on being within a certain range of calories each day, not including what I've burned. I think that if you burn serious calories via strenuous activity, you would want to pay more attention to calories burned so that you are fueling your body appropriately, but that's not really the case for me, on most days. :smile:
  • mommytoaiden
    mommytoaiden Posts: 75 Member
    I never eat back a single exercise calorie so I don't pay much attention anyway. MFP gives me 1650 to eat for my goals and I eat that or stay under.
  • treegirl97
    treegirl97 Posts: 70 Member
    I usually hit my daily step goal of 11,000 and on average I earn between 450 to 550 extra exercise calories.
  • Colorscheme
    Colorscheme Posts: 1,179 Member
    lmew91 wrote: »
    I wear my Fitbit Alta pretty much every day, and I usually hit the 10,000 step goal, often ending up with about 12,000 steps. I don't really pay a lot of attention to how many calories it gives me because I don't eat back the calories it gives me. I do know that I've never been in the 1,000's for exercise calories. I don't really think I burn as many calories as it gives me credit for, but I don't really worry about it because I focus on being within a certain range of calories each day, not including what I've burned. I think that if you burn serious calories via strenuous activity, you would want to pay more attention to calories burned so that you are fueling your body appropriately, but that's not really the case for me, on most days. :smile:

    I hit 1027 or something when I did 25000 steps. My legs were like jello!
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    Colorscheme wrote: »
    wizzybeth wrote: »
    I did 10,000 steps today and it gave me about 381 calories. I have never seen that many calories....

    That sounds about right. I get 500 cals for 10k steps because I run/jog for most of them. I'm 5'7" and 158 lbs.

    I forgot to say on MFP I allowed it to adjust for negative calories - not sure if that changes anything or not, but in general I rarely if ever burn more than 500 calories in a day - only if I do a 5 mile hike or something or ride my bike for 22 miles.

    Someone asked about the calories changing - I think the app "projects" how many calories you're going to have based on your activity up till that point, then if you don't live up to the expectations, you lose them. Which, if that's how it goes, sucks, cause you could easily think "Hey I have 500 extra calories! Yay me! Let's eat LOTS OF ICE CREAM" only then to find out, oops, they were taken away. LOL. Not sure if that's the case and I could be totally talking out my behind there, but it's an idea. lol
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    CaitMang wrote: »
    For thoes of you that have your fitbit synced with mfp... this question is for you!

    Do you feel the "exercise" calories they are givng you are accurate? I feel like they are very excessive! For example today... it gave me and additional 1184 calories (Did not work out, just at work)! I think that's insane! If i consumed that plus my daily allowance I'd be eating like 2,600 calories a day.
    Did you set your Fitbit to lose 2lbs per week? How low are your MFP calories? I only get highly inflated fitbit calories if the calories on FB and MFP aren't matched up.

    Also, do you log drives? I do, since it takes away fake steps. I also wear my fitbit on my non dominant hand and se it to dominant in the settings.
  • karahm78
    karahm78 Posts: 505 Member
    My Fitbit is very accurate, I am losing weight or maintaining as expected eating back most of the calories it gives me. I have been wearing the One for 2 years this month, and it has been great.

    I also NEVER get steps logged when driving, but maybe that is because it is clipped on and not on my wrist?
  • ACSL3
    ACSL3 Posts: 623 Member
    I have a fitbit One, not one of the wrist ones, but I find it to be very accurate. I go by the calorie goal on MFP (set to sedentary, negative calories enabled) and eat more when it syncs with fitbit. I'm losing weight at the rate I would expect for my calculated deficit.
  • healthykaitlin
    healthykaitlin Posts: 91 Member
    Mine does that too!!! I'm not sure if it has to do with heart rate, but it'll add 1-3k when I'm at 10-15k steps. I just disregard it... If I got in a killer workout I might eat back 50-150, but that's about it
  • StacyChrz
    StacyChrz Posts: 865 Member
    hiyomi wrote: »
    Does anyone know why sometimes it adds calories, and then they dissapear as if it took them back? lol I get that sometimes where at 1PM I have 50 extra calories, then by 7PM they are gone and it says zero again :/ lol

    If you have MFP and Fitbit set to make negative calorie adjustments it will do that. As of 1PM you may have been really active and have worked harder than it expects you to by that time of day but then by 7PM you may have been less active over the whole day than it thinks you should have been. I hope that makes sense.
  • StacyChrz
    StacyChrz Posts: 865 Member
    I have noticed that MFP has been 'glitchy' for me lately, the calorie counts and steps weren't matching up very well for me on Monday. Maybe that has something to do with your inflated numbers?
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    I feel its mostly accurate with my burn, they are usually not far away, within 95% accuracy imo.
  • mikejdeleon85
    mikejdeleon85 Posts: 81 Member
    yes im experiencing the same issue.

    last week with my charge it seemed pretty ok 13,000 steps burning about 900-1000 calories i walk in the warehouse i work for like 30min to an hour daily when possible and then over the weekend i got a reading of 4,000 steps and burned 1,000 calories i knew that was a red flag. so i decided to switch back to my blaze disconnected the charge from my fit bit account and now in getting readings from 10,000-13,000 steps is showing calories burned at about 1,500-1,800 that seems a bit excessive if anyone could help it was be greatly appreciated

    Thanks

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