New around here. Have another ? For Fitbit

4kidsandadh
4kidsandadh Posts: 6 Member
edited November 25 in Food and Nutrition
Hi all, I’m trying to get all this figured out before starting MFP tomorrow.

I put in my goals as sedentary as far as my activity for the day. With my steps from Fitbit it gave me an ex 1200 calories for the day. I’m only at 7,000 steps for the day so I think that’s a lot. By doing sedentary it gave me 1250 cals for the day. Now it’s at 2293 cals for the day.

Here’s my stats

5’3
218lbs
Female

Is that to many calories a day to lose. How much should I put down that I want to lose a week?

Any info would be great. I feel so lost with this app. Just want to start losing as I’m going through pre menapause and it’s Killing my weight. Ugh

Thanks

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  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    edited February 2018
    That seems high to me, but that's how it *should* work. When I was your weight but I'm 3" taller I would cut on 2K and that was about 10-12K steps daily.
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    Are you adding exercise calories in addition to the FitBit calories?
  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    please let no one have quoted that when I said "3 inches higher" lol
  • angelsja
    angelsja Posts: 859 Member
    That is alot I only earn a couple of hundred calories when I get to 7k steps or do you mean your total calories burned is 2293? If so then that's ok but if mfp is telling you to eat that something is off :/
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Hi all, I’m trying to get all this figured out before starting MFP tomorrow.

    I put in my goals as sedentary as far as my activity for the day. With my steps from Fitbit it gave me an ex 1200 calories for the day. I’m only at 7,000 steps for the day so I think that’s a lot. By doing sedentary it gave me 1250 cals for the day. Now it’s at 2293 cals for the day.

    Here’s my stats

    5’3
    218lbs
    Female

    Is that to many calories a day to lose. How much should I put down that I want to lose a week?

    Any info would be great. I feel so lost with this app. Just want to start losing as I’m going through pre menapause and it’s Killing my weight. Ugh

    Thanks

    Your FitBit is giving you your total energy expenditure...it's not just from steps. You burn a *kitten* ton of calories just existing.

    Right now I have 4,831 steps and 1,709 calories burned...most of that "burn" is me being alive.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Did you just purchase the Fitbit? If so, give it a few weeks for the adjustment to settle down to normal as it adjusts to your daily life.
  • angelsja
    angelsja Posts: 859 Member
    As of now 1874 Cal's 4167 steps some weight training and circuit type training in there too but mostly existing :)
  • 4kidsandadh
    4kidsandadh Posts: 6 Member
    I’m so confused. Ha sorry. Ok it has 1047 under exercise and I haven’t exercised. It’s just fitbit steps. Someone told me to put under activity that I don’t do anything and let fitbit steps be added. I work in a kitchen at a school. So I walk the whole 6hrs. I normall work out 3-5 days a week but today’s a DOR. Should I change activity part to lightly? I don’t what I’m doing here which is why I always give up on this app. But I don’t want to. Thanks for trying to help me..
  • 4kidsandadh
    4kidsandadh Posts: 6 Member
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  • 4kidsandadh
    4kidsandadh Posts: 6 Member
    This is what I’m talking about.
  • threec
    threec Posts: 97 Member
    That’s how many it’s saying you have burned so far today, to lose a pound a week eat 500 calories a day less than you’ve burned, a pound and a half eat 750 less than you’ve burned and for 2 pounds a week eat 1000 less than you’ve burned.

    Or enter your stats and goals into MFP & sync your Fitbit with MFP and eat what MFP tells you to to reach your goals. I don’t like math so I do what the app tells me to. The two play nicely together.
  • angelsja
    angelsja Posts: 859 Member
    How many steps are you getting due to lifestyle as in at work not purposeful exercise? Mfp asks you to choose a activity level based on your day to day lifestyle without exercise I would up 1 level and see how you get on
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    I would recommend that you set the MFP Activity Level to at least Lightly Active; set MFP to lose 1.0 lb per week or no more than 1.5 lbs per week; and enable negative adjustments in MFP so that any sick or less active days (such as on the weekend) that you don't move that much will adjust the daily MFP goal downward for just that day.

    Start by eating back at least 50 to 75% of the Fitbit Calorie adjustment; and then adjust the eat back percentage based on real results after about 4 to 6 weeks.

    I ate back 90 to 100% of my Fitbit Calorie adjustment and lost weight at the expected rate, and I currently maintain by eating back 100%. I have been logging Calorie intake for four years, weigh all solids, use measuring cups and spoons for liquids, and verify all of the food I log against nutrition labels or web sites; so I am confident that I am not underestimating my Calorie intake. If you are not as confident with your food logging, you may want to start with eating back 50% of the adjustment to give yourself a beginners cushion in case you may be underestimating how many Calories you are eating.

    I would recommend reading through the first three posts in this thread on the MFP Fitbit Users group...

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users
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