Activity Level - What do I choose?

JoshKevCaron
JoshKevCaron Posts: 10 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
So I've selected sedentary on my account and it says I should only eat 2000ish calories if I want to lose 1lbs a week. My for but says I burn around 3500 calories in day.

That's triple my goal. So I'm wondering if something is off. The Fitbit model is the surge. Not sure how good it is it was a gift.

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  • ElJefePerron
    ElJefePerron Posts: 88 Member
    Try eating at the 2k calories as suggested for a few weeks. Your fit bit says you're doing more exercise then sedentary. So, you might see some positive results in that time.
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    edited May 2016
    If you have your Fitbit syncing with here then as the days activities progress the 2000 cals mfp gave you will become higher (by midnight you'll see that 2000 number change to closer to what Fitbit says) - to lose 1lb per week if you do burn 3500, that would mean you could eat 3000 calories a day to lose 1lb.
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  • Alarae21
    Alarae21 Posts: 171 Member
    I don't pay attention to Fitbit, only MFP. If you have them synced if you go over your predetermined activity level (sedentary) then you will get a Fitbit adjustment to MFP which will increase your calories past your initial target.

    I set both MFP and Fitbit to sedentary and then get the additional calories. For example, I have been to the gym today and from the workouts I did I now have an adjustment to my goal of 1200 (short person here) of an additional ~550 calories to eat, so in total, 1750. This may lower slightly by 30-40 calories over the day as obviously I won't keep up the same level of activity, but it works out in the end. Just be mindful you may lose some of those extra calories over the day if your activity slows down, so don't eat right to the limit.
  • srecupid
    srecupid Posts: 660 Member
    JoshKevCaron wrote: »
    So I've selected sedentary on my account and it says I should only eat 2000ish calories if I want to lose 1lbs a week. My for but says I burn around 3500 calories in day.

    That's triple my goal. So I'm wondering if something is off. The Fitbit model is the surge. Not sure how good it is it was a gift.

    Do you actually burn 3500 calories a day or is your fitbit goal 3500 for the day? It's a big difference. That is what is reported on the home screen. What you should do is set up calorie adjustment and leave it set to sedentary. Then basically your activity level is whatever the heck your fitbit monitors not just a guess.
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  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    when you do get it sync'd you leave the activity level at sedentary anyway...and enable negative adjustments.

    Activity trackers give you extra calories to eat so let it do it's job.
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  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    JoshKevCaron wrote: »
    So it added around 270 calories once I got it synced. I felt fat yesterday I ate a whole package of KD to myself. Girlfriend is working nights at the moment and cooking for one is boring.

    I hear you...my husband is on nights too (last night tonight)

    I try to cook enough prior to night shifts for left overs.

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