Should i eat my exercised calories?fitbit synced
JadeGxo
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Hi i just synced my fitbit and its giving me extra calories to eat from what exercise i did should i eat them or just stick to my usual 1260? Anyone help??
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I do. I eat every single one.
However after years of using Fitbit and using a food scale to determine how much I am eating, I know that I can trust the calorie burn.4 -
I definitely want to 😂 i just hope i dont end up gaining weight 🙈 .. Thanks for the reply0
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MFP is giving you extra calories? you have both apps synced together? just to be clear!
If they are both synced together, then yes you can eat back those calories but be aware they can be overestimated so eat some of them back.
When you have data over time and your rate of loss is perhaps higher than it should be then you will know its ok to eat most if not all of them back.3 -
yeah their both synced together .. That's smart thinking because most of the time i think it overestimates steps i think ill try eating half the extra calories see how that goes thanks 😊1
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Yeah that's what I used to do when in the losing phase
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I always eat some of my fitness calories. However MFP seems to be giving me extra calories. I earned 189 calories so far today. I have logged approximately 2900 steps on my fitbit and have not exercised yet today. I have deleted those calories under the exercise tab because this does not seem correct to me. I also earned 449 extra fitness calories yesterday, which I most definitely did not earn. Is anyone seeing this glitch?1
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i got 665 extra calories today ive done 14k steps so far today but its my first day with my fitbit synced to MFP so im not sure how it works yet 🙈1
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665 calories seems like a lot. I've had similar days and never gotten that many calories, I think I would cry with joy if I did!!5
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I wouldn't eat calories that I earn just for walking. To me I was already expending that energy prior to starting my weight loss plan - it was already "counted" if you would. I do monitor my exercises with a heart rate monitor, so I do add those in to eat based on my needs that day. Sometimes I eat them, sometimes I don't.13
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it also takes a while for fitbit to get to know your movements, that takes a few weeks and then the calorie burn will be more accurate imo.
50% is a good average to eat back.0 -
kimmurden1 wrote: »I wouldn't eat calories that I earn just for walking. To me I was already expending that energy prior to starting my weight loss plan - it was already "counted" if you would. I do monitor my exercises with a heart rate monitor, so I do add those in to eat based on my needs that day. Sometimes I eat them, sometimes I don't.
You would if your setting here is at sedentary, nothing is counted if you are set to sedentary - so even a walk is exercise and can be counted as a burn.6 -
missvida58 wrote: »665 calories seems like a lot. I've had similar days and never gotten that many calories, I think I would cry with joy if I did!!
it depends on the height/weight of the OP, the heavier and taller we are, the more we burn.2 -
Unfortunately for me, my weight has not changed so this seems suddenly excessive.1
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i did a 60min walk this morning and a 40min walk after lunch (as a workout) not just me strolling around im trying to get the steps in .. And i have the fitbit 3 months now i only figured out i could sync it today 😂 .. Now you have me wondering if it is giving me to many extra calories to eat 🤔🤔3
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Have you input this much walking as exercise in the MFP database to see how much it gives? that would give you an idea if both are similar?3
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Also you can use the Sparkspeople calorie burn calculator for exercise, again it would give you an idea of the burn. At the end of the day you'll know if you are over estimating your calorie burn by how your weight loss is going, if you are losing at the expected rate then all is well etc etc3
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missvida58 wrote: »I always eat some of my fitness calories. However MFP seems to be giving me extra calories. I earned 189 calories so far today. I have logged approximately 2900 steps on my fitbit and have not exercised yet today. I have deleted those calories under the exercise tab because this does not seem correct to me. I also earned 449 extra fitness calories yesterday, which I most definitely did not earn. Is anyone seeing this glitch?
It’s important to note that Fitbit adjustments are NOT just fitness calories.
The adjustment includes exercise and activity level correction. If you are just more active in general day to day life than you told MFP you will get an adjustment.3 -
shadow2soul wrote: »missvida58 wrote: »I always eat some of my fitness calories. However MFP seems to be giving me extra calories. I earned 189 calories so far today. I have logged approximately 2900 steps on my fitbit and have not exercised yet today. I have deleted those calories under the exercise tab because this does not seem correct to me. I also earned 449 extra fitness calories yesterday, which I most definitely did not earn. Is anyone seeing this glitch?
It’s important to note that Fitbit adjustments are NOT just fitness calories.
The adjustment includes exercise and activity level correction. If you are just more active in general day to day life than you told MFP you will get an adjustment.
I did not realize this, and you're right, I was much more active this morning and yesterday at work. Thanks so much for this info!0 -
LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »Have you input this much walking as exercise in the MFP database to see how much it gives? that would give you an idea if both are similar?
The problem with this is that Fitbit adjustments aren’t just for exercise. They are activity level adjustments that include day to day activity as well as deliberate exercise. So if someone is more active than they told MFP they would be, they will get an adjustment even if there was no exercise.3 -
i did a 60min walk this morning and a 40min walk after lunch (as a workout) not just me strolling around im trying to get the steps in .. And i have the fitbit 3 months now i only figured out i could sync it today 😂 .. Now you have me wondering if it is giving me to many extra calories to eat 🤔🤔
For me 1hr 40 min walk at around 3.5 miles an hour would give me a burn of approx 360 - but I'm only 5ft 2 and 125lbs.0 -
I eat back part, but not all. Usually about half. My reason is that I don't think most methods of quantifying caloric expenditure in exercise are really all that accurate and reliable.
You could probably use feelings of legitimate hunger as a guide. If you find that you're actually hungry (as opposed to bored, or having a snack habit, or whatever), eat 'em back! You must've burned them.
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The calories earned back will also depend on what your activity level is set to. If set to not very active you will earn more calories back than lightly active or very active. There was a thread on here somewhere that mentioned what to set to based on steps without exercise.2
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I have a Fitbit Charge 2 synced with MyFitnessPal and I eat all of my exercise calories. I’ve lost 41 pounds since January / 173-132.
I know some only eat a portion of theirs, I started out eating around 50% or so but I guess I’m lucky in that I can still lose eating all of mine. Best to observe and see how you do.
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This thread was really helpful. Two months ago I switched jobs and would now consider myself more "lightly active" than "sedentary." I had started to get way more exercise calories than before (Fitbit synced) and couldn't figure out why...but now I know!2
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When people doubt the accuracy of the FitBit adjustments and think that the calories are inflated - it usually comes down to them not understanding how FitBit works, or more likely, how FitBit and MFP work together.
First - FitBit is an activity tracker and measures a calorie burn for your total daily activity, inclusive of your BMR, NEAT and exercise which is an estimate of your TDEE or total calorie burn for a day.
The calorie adjustments you see in MFP when you have that two synced, reflect the difference between what MFP thought you would burn based on your stats and activity level, and what FitBit estimates you actually burn. If you’ve chosen a lower activity setting than your actual activity reflects - ie choosing Sedentary because you have a desk job but you actually average 7,500 or more calories per day - you will see bigger adjustments because, you really aren’t Sedentary.
Starting with eating back about half the calorie adjustments (combined with logging accurately) can help you determine how accurate the FitBit projections are for you.
What I can tell you is that for me, it’s accurate, and I’m a petite female over forty with a desk job maintaining my weight at 118 lbs, but FitBit (and actual results) says I burn 2100-2200 cals/day. That’s because I average 12k or more steps and therefore if I was set at Sedentary still (I was at first), I would see those big adjustments. Not trusting them and eating back the calories would have lead me to under eat and under fuel my activity.8 -
if its the fit bit with the 24 hour hrm then yes i would eat all of them back, that's as accurate as you can get with those types of devices.1
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Wow thanks for all the replies its my first time posting didnt think i would even get a answer 😂 i think i will up my activity level i was only doing like 12000 steps a day but I've up that a lot in the last few weeks today I've done 23000 .. Im going to eat half the added calories for a week or 2 and see how that goes im 5'5 and 194 lbs was just scared incase id gain if i ate them sound for all the advice 😊😊2
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I use MFP to log food, but I base my deficit on the total burn Fitbit shows for the day so I don't really look at how much MFP recommends. Basically, if Fitbit says I burned 2700, I eat 1700. That leaves me at a deficit of about 1000 a day, or 2 lbs a week. My weight trend app shows an average loss of 2.5 lbs/week for a deficit of 1200/day, so in my case it is actually underestimating my burn.
It can take some time to really know how accurate your Fitbit is (that's based on an average across 3 months for me) weightloss is a marathon, not a sprint imo. It's worth finding out if what you're doing is right for you.1 -
Depends how accurate you are in your logging.0
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Every extra calorie earned is worth eating! If I worked out enough to earn that Snickers bar worth of calories, I'm going to eat it.2
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