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    FitBit adding an insane amount of calories...?

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    • Posts: 721 Member
      One formula I've seen for calculating calories burned per step is to divide your weight by 3500. I don't know your weight but for someone who's 200 pounds and does 19k steps, that's around 1100 calories burned. So the Fitbit might not be as off as you think.
    • Posts: 417 Member
      I'm set to lightly active and at 5400 steps my fitbit has already given me an extra 80 calories. I lost 30 pounds a couple years ago eating back my fitbit adjustments. I learned that I am FAR from sedentary, but I'd been trying to eat like I was.

      I'm set to lightly active now, eat back most of the fitbit adjustments, and I've lost about five pounds in five weeks, so I'm right on the schedule I was set at. (I recently upped my goal to 1.5# per week because I need to lose another 17 pounds before they'll list me on the kidney transplant list.)
    • Posts: 1,179 Member
      Angierae75 wrote: »
      I'm set to lightly active and at 5400 steps my fitbit has already given me an extra 80 calories. I lost 30 pounds a couple years ago eating back my fitbit adjustments. I learned that I am FAR from sedentary, but I'd been trying to eat like I was.

      I'm set to lightly active now, eat back most of the fitbit adjustments, and I've lost about five pounds in five weeks, so I'm right on the schedule I was set at. (I recently upped my goal to 1.5# per week because I need to lose another 17 pounds before they'll list me on the kidney transplant list.)

      I think it depends on how fast you get the steps, because when I hit 5k steps I get 150 cals as those steps came from walking/jogging 4 mph for 30 mins.
    • Posts: 26,368 Member
      RealLifeDaria wrote: »
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      Even for "actual calories" burned so far today FitBit is giving me what seems to be a wildly inflated number--something like 2,500 cals.

      For what it's worth, I'm 38, 5'5", 136 pounds, and I'd burn close to 2500 calories a day (counting everything, obviously) if I walked 19k steps in a day.

      What does your fitbit tell you that you're burning in a day total? Honestly I never sync'ed mine because it was a hassle and the numbers definitely didn't always make sense, I just ate 20% less than what it told me in average and I lost just fine.
    • Posts: 233 Member
      RealLifeDaria wrote: »
      I've been logging in MFP for a few weeks and just decided to sync up my FitBit. I just started using it a few days ago, but I generally log 12K-19K steps a day. I've had my goal in MFP set to 1350 cals/day, but now that I've linked my FitBit its adding and INSANE amount of calories to my adjustment--like over a thousand. That doesn't seem like it can be right?! Any insight? If it's going to say I'm 1,000+ calories under each day by having them linked, I'd rather keep them separate.

      Seems like our stats are pretty similar. Not sure why you think 2500 is inflated?
      And this was at the lower end of your 12-19,000 steps.

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    • Posts: 417 Member
      Colorscheme wrote: »
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      I think it depends on how fast you get the steps, because when I hit 5k steps I get 150 cals as those steps came from walking/jogging 4 mph for 30 mins.

      Yes, it changes by intensity.
    • Posts: 26,368 Member
      Angierae75 wrote: »
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      Yes, it changes by intensity.

      That was kinda broken with my One though! More intense minutes, more steps... less calories. Infuriating.
    • Posts: 1 Member
      The app gave me 760.540 extra calories to burn today because I Made a 3100 extra steps... Something is very wrong...
    • Posts: 978 Member
      edited December 2018
      ZOMBIE THREAD ALERT

      @sandervoorn: Have you got your fitbit set up for the same weight loss goals as MFP? Assuming you've got it set for 500kcal deficit, then 210kcals for 3100 extra steps seems about right.

      EDIT: Also as a note it's best to start up a new thread rather than bump up super old threads, as people are likely to miss your post and just talk to OP (who posted almost 3 years ago)
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