Eating back calories and Fitbit

Maxematics wrote: »

Fitness trackers seem to be on the mark for some, but can over/underestimate for others. It shouldn't ever be anything too drastic though. I use Trendweight and a spreadsheet that was posted on the boards to assess the margin of error for my Fitbit. I don't remember the link offhand but it's been posted many times by @PAV8888. It's helped immensely thus far.

Glad to hear it's helped @Maxematics

As you mentioned in your post there are multiple components at play:
--the accuracy of caloric intake logging
--the accuracy of the tracking device for the activities of the user
--whether the user is an average or outlier snowflake.

What is the likelihood that an outlier snowflake finds themselves on MFP?
THREE standard deviations from the mean is only 0.3% of the population.
Which still amounts to over 1,000,000 people in just the US and Canada.
Admittedly, the vast majority, including myself, are part of the other 99.7%

Latest version of the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14k_zGWeklpl05lNqSWN_SK1XzuwnmVHtUfW8Eao5kIE/edit?usp=sharing

hoganpm0 wrote: »

I wish they would let you not have it add calories based on activity like they let you not add Negative calories if you want.

Since you're a Premium member this is an option for you, to disable all exercise/tracker calories from being added to your goal.