Fitbit synced to mfp calories with weight loss

Yes. Most of my "exercise calories" from FitBit are from walking and general daily activity though. I don't do a lot of intense cardio.

If you are trying to lose then you need to create a deficite between calories in and calories out so you should not eat back all of your exercise calories earned.

steffie140 wrote: »

If you are trying to lose then you need to create a deficite between calories in and calories out so you should not eat back all of your exercise calories earned.

His baseline calorie goal is 1560. His deficit is built into that. No way is he maintaining on 1560 (even if sedentary).

Edited to note that FitBit reports burn of 4500 (which seems really high, but could be valid depending on height/weight and what was done). Calorie goal appears to be 3500ish when adjustment of ~2000 is added to base goal of 1560. That looks like a 1000 calorie deficit aiming for 2 pounds/week. If the OP is at a healthy weight already, that's way too much. If in the obese range, it's reasonable. If overweight, it's too high *unless* this activity level is normal. If this is a normal activity level, it'll be an okay starting point for data gathering.

Watch what happens with the scale. If you're losing too fast, eat more (to shrink the deficit). If you're losing too slow, eat less (to increase the deficit). Make sure your weight loss goal is reasonable for your size.

steffie140 wrote: »

If you are trying to lose then you need to create a deficite between calories in and calories out so you should not eat back all of your exercise calories earned.

He burned 4500.
He ate 3100.

Guess what happened. Even if he ate 400 more as suggested.

I used to be able to eat back all of my calories with my Zip, but when I got a Charge2 I noticed it gave me a lot more calories back compared to the Zip. I presume it was taking HR into consideration thus relating in a higher calorie burn reported compared to my old Zip that does not track HR. This seriously messed with me and I gained weight eating back the calories the CH2 gave me. I ended up adjusting my goal to 2lbs/wk, from 1/wk to make an adjustment (reducing base calorie allotment) to try and compensate, even though my mental target is still 1/wk loss.

Everyone says to eat back half, but I soooo wish there was a setting where you could tell it to only permit 50% or any other percentage of exercise calories earned to be granted/displayed. I want to be rewarded with extra calories for working out and it worked for me for about a year with the Zip. Now I feel like I have to do this math dance to try and figure out either what I can eat back and still lose weight or divide the calories earned in half and figure out how many I have left, every time I open MFP with the higher calories that the CH2 grants.

My advice is to see how you do for a few weeks to see what works for you. If your losing, great! If not well then time to do some math dancing.

burn seems...way to high...When i walk 20k+ steps i burn 1000 tops even at my job which is a mover i heavy lift and squat like crazy +1.5 hours walk to get there and home + all the stairs i climb carrying heavy things.

God i wish i was a man sometimes.

Hi, MFP gives you a calorie number which will help you lose weight without adding in exercise. However, since you're working out you can eat back your workout calories, but most people on the forum often mention to eat back at last half of the extra calories to help with overestimation that often occurs for burn.

SusanMFindlay wrote: »

Also, how long have you been using the FitBit? The heartrate monitor ones can take a week or two to "get to know you" and give accurate numbers.

Thanks for this! Just got my Fitbit Charge 2 on Sunday and was wondering how accurate it was. Last night, before dinner, MFP told me I had 1400 calories including workout calories while the Fitbit said I had around 3200. I will ignore this on the Fitbit for a while.

gataman3000 wrote: »

I'm 6"0 240, I'm in the obese range for the bmi chart but I have a good amount of muscle, I'm hoping to lose 40 pounds and my waist is a 36/38. I've had the charge hr 2 since maybe a month after it was released, that's a day of me up at 8am in the bed at 12pm with a fair amount of walking. To me it seems high, I don't feel stuffed I feel close to full most of the day but so much food makes me nervous, I was curious to if anyone has had experience eating all their exercise calories back and still losing weight.

I'm currently eating back approximately 3/4 of my exercise calories and losing at a rate of about 1.5 per week. Granted, I've just restarted this journey as of late January so may still be losing some water weight as I never had the quick initial drop so many speak of.

I am 5'9 and also about 240 pounds.
For 12000 steps my fitbit charge HR usually gives me 2000 cals.
But then again, I am a woman, so it would be lower.
And exercise calories escalates after the first 5000 steps.
But I wouldn't eat back calories burned.