Anyone link Fitbit

my fitbit is also linked and no i do not eat my extra calories as i am still trying to lose.

sandicat6 wrote: »

my fitbit is also linked and no i do not eat my extra calories as i am still trying to lose.

Same is true for me.

I do! It's so handy.
I try not to eat back all of the calories I earn because I'm trying to lose weight still.
However, if I do happen to go over my normal calorie goal by a little bit and I have those
to fall back on, I don't feel as if the day was totally ruined and can still stick to my plan

I have had a FitBit and used it with MFP for about 3 years. I have always eaten back the calorie adjustments, while I was losing, and now that I am maintaining... I lost at the rate I wanted to lose and now maintain pretty effortlessly knowing that my total calories burned on FitBit is a solid estimate of my TDEE so I'm confident in eating to that level.

For those who say they aren't eating back adjustments because they are trying to lose... do you realize your goal with MFP has a deficit already built in and that any exercise calorie adjustments are meant to be eaten back to keep your net calorie goal the same, losing weight while avoiding too large of a calorie deficit?

I do eat the calories back as well so that I'm not two low with the amount of calories/ energy I need for the day. For example, my calorie goal is 1200 ( to lose weight) , I burn about 400 calories exercising, so I make sure to eat those back. Total, I eat 1600 a day however with my exercise, Im at an even 1200. Hope this makes sense.

I my Fitbit. It reminds me to move when I'm lost in a translation and generally made me realize just how horribly sedentary I was. I've now managed to up myself to the lightly active segment, largely thanks to my pretty little friend.

But it's no longer linked with MFP.

My problem was more of a psycological nature. I couldn't deal with a constantly moving calorie target and I ended up eating more than I should. I do much better when my calorie target is fixed and I manually enter purposeful exercise (usually I enter less than Fitbit would have given me as the numbers are sometimes a bit off and I haven't yet found how to adjust the settings to make them spot on). It makes me feel as if I were in control of the process and not some nifty gadget on my wrist.

briannayasel wrote: »

I do eat the calories back as well so that I'm not two low with the amount of calories/ energy I need for the day. For example, my calorie goal is 1200 ( to lose weight) , I burn about 400 calories exercising, so I make sure to eat those back. Total, I eat 1600 a day however with my exercise, Im at an even 1200. Hope this makes sense.

This is exactly how mfp is designed to work.

ladyreva78 wrote: »

I my Fitbit. It reminds me to move when I'm lost in a translation and generally made me realize just how horribly sedentary I was. I've now managed to up myself to the lightly active segment, largely thanks to my pretty little friend.

But it's no longer linked with MFP.

My problem was more of a psycological nature. I couldn't deal with a constantly moving calorie target and I ended up eating more than I should. I do much better when my calorie target is fixed and I manually enter purposeful exercise (usually I enter less than Fitbit would have given me as the numbers are sometimes a bit off and I haven't yet found how to adjust the settings to make them spot on). It makes me feel as if I were in control of the process and not some nifty gadget on my wrist.

Same here! I can't even tell you how many times I've linked my Fitbit to MFP to give it another try, and it just does not work for me. It is DEFINITELY psychological! I push the button on my Fitbit to time my workouts, and then I manually enter those exercise calories into MFP after I sync. So far, that has been the best fit for me! That's the beauty of this whole journey, you have to find what works for YOU!

LillysMomma09 wrote: »

I don't think I understand exactly how the calorie adjustments work on Fitbit.
It will say I have X amount of calories left to eat, then if I eat them the little graph thing says I'm over for the day. I don't think I understand what I'm reading yet.

Log food in MFP, let the Fitbit track all step-based activity, for non-step-based exercise, such as cycling, swimming, rowing, log the activity in either MFP or Fitbit, but not both.

If you are logging food in MFP, I would recommend ignoring the Fitbit's Calorie In Calories Out Tile Display and rely on the MFP Fitbit Calorie Adjustment - that is what I do. If you stop moving a few hours before midnight, your MFP Fitbit Calorie Adjustment could decrease as it approaches midnight, so leave about 15 Calories per hour cushion to account for the decrease.

https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1084232-what-is-the-calorie-adjustment-in-my-exercise-diary-

I do, but I don't eat my calories burned unless it's a special occassion (birthday, holiday, special work event). I feel like working out, then eatting what you just burnt defeats the whole purpose. It can be hard. At 5 even and 130-135 i get 1200 a day.