Base calorie goal when using Fitbit?
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HanMW96
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Now I have a Fitbit, I've set my base activity level as sedentary and will add on everything the Fitbit tracks. Does that sound right?
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Christine_72 wrote: »
And you maintain? I'm surprised by how many calories I could apparently consume and still maintain?0 -
Now I have a Fitbit, I've set my base activity level as sedentary and will add on everything the Fitbit tracks. Does that sound right?
Best way to do it from experience, if you wanna lose weight, put a 15% deficit (lose 0.5lb a week/250calories) and exercise another 250-400 calories.
If you wanna maintain and you workout, put a (gain 0.5lb a week) and exercise 250calories.
You put activity level as sedentary and you add your workouts to the "exercise" section.
for example 10minutes of hiit equals 150-200 calories, 20 minutes of cardio equals 125-200 calories , but it depends on intensity of course
so keep sedentary level, add the rest. even walking is an exercise.0 -
I was wondering the same thing. I've tried setting it to sedentary and very active but, it seems to balance itself out on my end. If I put sedentary it will say 10,000 steps is +2000 calories and if I have it set to very active it will be only +1000. My calories always seem to be at between 4k-5k per day which is impossible for me to do and sounds ridiculously high.0
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Christine_72 wrote: »
And you maintain? I'm surprised by how many calories I could apparently consume and still maintain?
Aah i can't answer that one, as i have never eaten ALL of my fitbit calories back, I'd say i would gain if i did that! I'm currently set at maintenance/sedentary calories and creating a deficit through exercise (trying to lose a few vanity pounds).
Going off my numbers here, i should be losing around 1lb a week, but it is much, much slower than that... You might be one of the lucky ones, and your fitbit numbers are perfectly accurate, it's trial and error.0 -
@Christine_72 seems to get the FitBit estimates to work. Not me! Probably because of cycling and swimming. I also got ridiculous numbers from mowing the lawn. (Vibrations from the mower?) Anyway, I had to leave the apps un-linked and do a bit of reckoning when adding the FitBit calories to my tally, which I did by adding "Walking, 4.0 mph, very brisk pace" with enough time to equal whatever number of calories I felt were reasonable from the FitBit app.0
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mohamedahmed07 wrote: »Now I have a Fitbit, I've set my base activity level as sedentary and will add on everything the Fitbit tracks. Does that sound right?
for example 10minutes of hiit equals 150-200 calories, 20 minutes of cardio equals 125-200 calories , but it depends on intensity of course
so keep sedentary level, add the rest. even walking is an exercise.
the burn from hiit/cardio is going to depends on the persons weight as well not just intensity1 -
Thank you all, I think I'm going to chop 500 off from my Fitbit calorie goal, cause even that is still more than I have been eating! I believe I have been undereating, but not by 800/900 cals a day like my Fitbit says!! Does this sound good?1
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Thank you all, I think I'm going to chop 500 off from my Fitbit calorie goal, cause even that is still more than I have been eating! I believe I have been undereating, but not by 800/900 cals a day like my Fitbit says!! Does this sound good?
why would you want to cut off 500 from your fitbit calorie goal? if your goal is more than what you are eating you dont eat less. how many calories are you eating?how much does it give you?2 -
I'd start by eating back 50% of your exercise calories/fitbit adjustment and go from there. Adjust up or down after a few weeks of data.
I highly recommend downloading a weight trending app, I use Trendweight. It syncs with fitbit and mfp. It will smooth out the fluctuations, so you wont panic if you see a sudden gain on the scales.0 -
CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »mohamedahmed07 wrote: »Now I have a Fitbit, I've set my base activity level as sedentary and will add on everything the Fitbit tracks. Does that sound right?
for example 10minutes of hiit equals 150-200 calories, 20 minutes of cardio equals 125-200 calories , but it depends on intensity of course
so keep sedentary level, add the rest. even walking is an exercise.
the burn from hiit/cardio is going to depends on the persons weight as well not just intensity
first of all, overweight person shouldn't do hiit, and someone overweight won't do it as intense.
so it's intensity - weight = calories burn, it evens out at the end a fat person won't run as fast as a fit one, a fit one won't burn as much as a fat person with the same intensity.0 -
Yes, just don't set a large deficit that is more than 500 less calories per day.0 -
Also, what does Fitbit say your TDEE is? I average 15-18k steps a day and fitbit estimates my tdee to be 2300-2400.
I'm 45, 5'8 and 148lbs0 -
mohamedahmed07 wrote: »CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »mohamedahmed07 wrote: »Now I have a Fitbit, I've set my base activity level as sedentary and will add on everything the Fitbit tracks. Does that sound right?
for example 10minutes of hiit equals 150-200 calories, 20 minutes of cardio equals 125-200 calories , but it depends on intensity of course
so keep sedentary level, add the rest. even walking is an exercise.
the burn from hiit/cardio is going to depends on the persons weight as well not just intensity
first of all, overweight person shouldn't do hiit, and someone overweight won't do it as intense.
so it's intensity - weight = calories burn, it evens out at the end a fat person won't run as fast as a fit one, a fit one won't burn as much as a fat person with the same intensity.
who said an overweight person shouldnt do hiit? I did it when I was obese and I do it now when Im only a few lbs overweight and Im not dead yet. just because a person is overweight/obese does not mean they cant do certain things. everyone is different. as for running you cant say one person who is "fat" cant run as fast as a thin one. I have seen some people who outweigh me outrun me.4 -
CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »mohamedahmed07 wrote: »CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »mohamedahmed07 wrote: »Now I have a Fitbit, I've set my base activity level as sedentary and will add on everything the Fitbit tracks. Does that sound right?
for example 10minutes of hiit equals 150-200 calories, 20 minutes of cardio equals 125-200 calories , but it depends on intensity of course
so keep sedentary level, add the rest. even walking is an exercise.
the burn from hiit/cardio is going to depends on the persons weight as well not just intensity
first of all, overweight person shouldn't do hiit, and someone overweight won't do it as intense.
so it's intensity - weight = calories burn, it evens out at the end a fat person won't run as fast as a fit one, a fit one won't burn as much as a fat person with the same intensity.
who said an overweight person shouldnt do hiit? I did it when I was obese and I do it now when Im only a few lbs overweight and Im not dead yet. just because a person is overweight/obese does not mean they cant do certain things. everyone is different. as for running you cant say one person who is "fat" cant run as fast as a thin one. I have seen some people who outweigh me outrun me.
Why do you insist on making me look wrong xD obviously someone trying to lose weight is not "Athletic" and probably haven't run before for quite some time, so I would expect a 140lb person to outrun a 240lb person.
and hiit is too hard for overweight people, too much stress on the cardiovascular system, can someone overweight run for 30-60seconds with all of their speed 8-12 times a workout? If they can, then sure they can do it, but most can't.0 -
mohamedahmed07 wrote: »CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »mohamedahmed07 wrote: »CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »mohamedahmed07 wrote: »Now I have a Fitbit, I've set my base activity level as sedentary and will add on everything the Fitbit tracks. Does that sound right?
for example 10minutes of hiit equals 150-200 calories, 20 minutes of cardio equals 125-200 calories , but it depends on intensity of course
so keep sedentary level, add the rest. even walking is an exercise.
the burn from hiit/cardio is going to depends on the persons weight as well not just intensity
first of all, overweight person shouldn't do hiit, and someone overweight won't do it as intense.
so it's intensity - weight = calories burn, it evens out at the end a fat person won't run as fast as a fit one, a fit one won't burn as much as a fat person with the same intensity.
who said an overweight person shouldnt do hiit? I did it when I was obese and I do it now when Im only a few lbs overweight and Im not dead yet. just because a person is overweight/obese does not mean they cant do certain things. everyone is different. as for running you cant say one person who is "fat" cant run as fast as a thin one. I have seen some people who outweigh me outrun me.
Why do you insist on making me look wrong xD obviously someone trying to lose weight is not "Athletic" and probably haven't run before for quite some time, so I would expect a 140lb person to outrun a 240lb person.
and hiit is too hard for overweight people, too much stress on the cardiovascular system, can someone overweight run for 30-60seconds with all of their speed 8-12 times a workout? If they can, then sure they can do it, but most can't.
because most of what you are saying is wrong. just because a person is fat does not mean they cant be athletic. maybe a majority of obese people havent run while fat,so you are saying that since I am overweight by less than 10 lbs that hiit is too hard for me? I am not an athletic person either. Yet I do it and can do it and have when I was obese.
There are no guarantees that a 140lb person can outrun an 240lb person(depends on the people in question). maybe the 240lb person has been running for awhile and the 140lb person hasnt. There can be many variables but with you saying fat people cant do certain things is appalling. I have done a lot of things when I was obese I couldnt do when I was thinner,some people cant run at all no matter what their weight is.The more you do something the more efficient your body gets at it. you saying fat people cant do certain things is appalling.3 -
CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »mohamedahmed07 wrote: »CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »mohamedahmed07 wrote: »CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »mohamedahmed07 wrote: »Now I have a Fitbit, I've set my base activity level as sedentary and will add on everything the Fitbit tracks. Does that sound right?
for example 10minutes of hiit equals 150-200 calories, 20 minutes of cardio equals 125-200 calories , but it depends on intensity of course
so keep sedentary level, add the rest. even walking is an exercise.
the burn from hiit/cardio is going to depends on the persons weight as well not just intensity
first of all, overweight person shouldn't do hiit, and someone overweight won't do it as intense.
so it's intensity - weight = calories burn, it evens out at the end a fat person won't run as fast as a fit one, a fit one won't burn as much as a fat person with the same intensity.
who said an overweight person shouldnt do hiit? I did it when I was obese and I do it now when Im only a few lbs overweight and Im not dead yet. just because a person is overweight/obese does not mean they cant do certain things. everyone is different. as for running you cant say one person who is "fat" cant run as fast as a thin one. I have seen some people who outweigh me outrun me.
Why do you insist on making me look wrong xD obviously someone trying to lose weight is not "Athletic" and probably haven't run before for quite some time, so I would expect a 140lb person to outrun a 240lb person.
and hiit is too hard for overweight people, too much stress on the cardiovascular system, can someone overweight run for 30-60seconds with all of their speed 8-12 times a workout? If they can, then sure they can do it, but most can't.
because most of what you are saying is wrong. just because a person is fat does not mean they cant be athletic. maybe a majority of obese people havent run while fat,so you are saying that since I am overweight by less than 10 lbs that hiit is too hard for me? I am not an athletic person either. Yet I do it and can do it and have when I was obese.
There are no guarantees that a 140lb person can outrun an 240lb person(depends on the people in question). maybe the 240lb person has been running for awhile and the 140lb person hasnt. There can be many variables but with you saying fat people cant do certain things is appalling. I have done a lot of things when I was obese I couldnt do when I was thinner,some people cant run at all no matter what their weight is.The more you do something the more efficient your body gets at it. you saying fat people cant do certain things is appalling.
Well, obviously there are exceptional cases in almost every science research or everything people talk about I thought this was obvious enough that I don't have to mention it, you're right someone overweight could be more athletic than a skinny person but in a very rare cases, that wasn't what I meant anyways.0 -
Now I have a Fitbit, I've set my base activity level as sedentary and will add on everything the Fitbit tracks. Does that sound right?
Yes.
You can chose ANY MFP level and, if negative adjustments are enabled, **at midnight** the final calculation (which is mis-labelled as an 'exercise adjustment') will be exactly the same.
There will be more calories added if you are set as sedentary on MFP, and fewer added (or potentially some subtracted) if you're setup as very active but prove not to be.Thank you all, I think I'm going to chop 500 off from my Fitbit calorie goal, cause even that is still more than I have been eating! I believe I have been undereating, but not by 800/900 cals a day like my Fitbit says!! Does this sound good?
Do you have some personal data that lead you to believe that Fitbit and your logging are not accurate for you?
I would assume that I am normal and my tools will work for me, and adjust when and if they prove not to!
Connect fitbit.com to trendweight.com and evaluate your progress based on your trending weight.
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Now I have a Fitbit, I've set my base activity level as sedentary and will add on everything the Fitbit tracks. Does that sound right?
Yes.
You can chose ANY MFP level and, if negative adjustments are enabled, **at midnight** the final calculation (which is mis-labelled as an 'exercise adjustment') will be exactly the same.
There will be more calories added if you are set as sedentary on MFP, and fewer added (or potentially some subtracted) if you're setup as very active but prove not to be.Thank you all, I think I'm going to chop 500 off from my Fitbit calorie goal, cause even that is still more than I have been eating! I believe I have been undereating, but not by 800/900 cals a day like my Fitbit says!! Does this sound good?
Do you have some personal data that lead you to believe that Fitbit and your logging are not accurate for you?
I would assume that I am normal and my tools will work for me, and adjust when and if they prove not to!
Connect fitbit.com to trendweight.com and evaluate your progress based on your trending weight.
How do I enable negative adjustment? I've also set my Mfp base goal as what my Fitbit says my BMI is, or is this wrong considering I will burn cals whilst sedentary which are not in the exercise adjustment?0
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