RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »

MFP is not picking up my fit bit steps, I have unpaired them and denied access then re set it up, my steps are set to fit bit. Ant other ideas on what to try?

The FAQ's are generally not looked at by anyone, so your potential audience is very small, and issues aren't really related to the topic of FAQ's.

Suggest you scan through the headers of topics in main Fitbit group - probably find your issue already with topic, and if not can start one - but I'd scan first and read through the many a topic on exactly that - with many suggestions.

callumwalker1995 wrote: »

My fitbit in my workout this morning said I burned 726 calories yet the polar watch with hr monitor chest strap said I burned 1590 because it recognised my hr was about 130 on average whilst my fitbit said 90. DOes the fitbit charge hr have such a bad accuracy like this?

It can with some. Most start to show inaccuracy when going higher HR's though, that's about the worst example of low HR I've seen when the adjustments on wrist are followed.
Or it's shows bad ability to adjust as fast as HR is during like intervals.

So if you haven't followed Fitbit's advice as to where to wear it when working out - follow those first.

If you are and HR is still that bad - you physically aren't a good candidate for optical HR reading.
Keep using the Polar.
Now - Fitbit does use better formula than cheaper Polar's - the nicer Polar's use the same methods as Fitbit.
So if your Polar only has gender, age, weight, height, and no VO2max test or restingHR or HRmax available to change - then take those calories burns with big grain of salt too - they could be very inflated.

Oh - was that workout steady-state aerobic where the formula for calorie burn based on HR even apply?

Log out of your app, don't just close it, log out so you have to log in again.
While logged out, change the setting on the website to disabled. Save, then enable it again. Save.
Now log back into the app.
Still a problem - contact support.

adamyovanovich wrote: »

So here is my dilemma. I weigh 316, MFP gave me 2600 cal to eat, but i set it to 2000 cal per day which is 3 pounds a week or %1 of my body weight. Yesterday i walked 7k steps, walked, no run, no other exercise. It gave me an adjustment of 1393, MFP told me to eat 3393 calories.

WTF, no way that is right, that would put me into gain weight. What is going on here?

2000 eating goal + 1393 MFP sees you burned from Fitbit over it's own sedentary estimate of daily burn = 3393

Fitbit total burn was likely upwards of 4900.

So you still had your 1500 deficit - or 3 lb weekly goal for daily amount.

Yep - sounds about right.

And as long as your stride length and distance for that walking was pretty correct - you got great calorie burn estimate from Fitbit for MFP to do the work with.

So meet your goal.

Have you had any experience with calorie levels prior to starting diet - I mean besides seeing 1200 cal diets as fast weight lot methods?
Most people have no concept at all of calories burned or eaten - because they have never looked.

If most people could log exactly what they ate for a week without it influencing what they ate, and if the were pretty weight neutral, no gain or loss - they'd now exactly what their maintenance was for that level of activity.
But most attempt to get more active - so that number goes up actually.

Just to mention that the infrequently viewed FAQ in the stickies is not the best place to get comments and ideas for issues. The FAQ is supposed to be on that topic - not troubleshooting.
You'll find much more support in general topics anyway, if not already finding a topic open on exactly your issue. Which is about always the same.