FitBit adding an insane amount of calories...?

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  • xvolution
    xvolution Posts: 721 Member
    One formula I've seen for calculating calories burned per step is to divide your weight by 3500. I don't know your weight but for someone who's 200 pounds and does 19k steps, that's around 1100 calories burned. So the Fitbit might not be as off as you think.
  • Angierae75
    Angierae75 Posts: 417 Member
    I'm set to lightly active and at 5400 steps my fitbit has already given me an extra 80 calories. I lost 30 pounds a couple years ago eating back my fitbit adjustments. I learned that I am FAR from sedentary, but I'd been trying to eat like I was.

    I'm set to lightly active now, eat back most of the fitbit adjustments, and I've lost about five pounds in five weeks, so I'm right on the schedule I was set at. (I recently upped my goal to 1.5# per week because I need to lose another 17 pounds before they'll list me on the kidney transplant list.)
  • Colorscheme
    Colorscheme Posts: 1,179 Member
    Angierae75 wrote: »
    I'm set to lightly active and at 5400 steps my fitbit has already given me an extra 80 calories. I lost 30 pounds a couple years ago eating back my fitbit adjustments. I learned that I am FAR from sedentary, but I'd been trying to eat like I was.

    I'm set to lightly active now, eat back most of the fitbit adjustments, and I've lost about five pounds in five weeks, so I'm right on the schedule I was set at. (I recently upped my goal to 1.5# per week because I need to lose another 17 pounds before they'll list me on the kidney transplant list.)

    I think it depends on how fast you get the steps, because when I hit 5k steps I get 150 cals as those steps came from walking/jogging 4 mph for 30 mins.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    RealLifeDaria wrote: »
    higgins8283801 wrote: »
    RealLifeDaria wrote: »
    After looking at it, it seems to be giving me WAY more calories/step than it should. For the ~20 minutes I walked my dog this evening at about a 3.0 mph pace, it gave me more than 150 cals. That's WAY too much for a 20 minute walk! I have my height and weight entered in correctly, so I'm not sure why its burn estimate seems so off.

    when it syncs to MFP, it adjusts for what it thinks you'll use by the end of the day; if you look tomorrow you'll notice that it will take back ones you really didn't burn. I try and just eat back a little bit of them for this reason

    Even for "actual calories" burned so far today FitBit is giving me what seems to be a wildly inflated number--something like 2,500 cals.

    For what it's worth, I'm 38, 5'5", 136 pounds, and I'd burn close to 2500 calories a day (counting everything, obviously) if I walked 19k steps in a day.

    What does your fitbit tell you that you're burning in a day total? Honestly I never sync'ed mine because it was a hassle and the numbers definitely didn't always make sense, I just ate 20% less than what it told me in average and I lost just fine.
  • msalicia116
    msalicia116 Posts: 233 Member
    RealLifeDaria wrote: »
    I've been logging in MFP for a few weeks and just decided to sync up my FitBit. I just started using it a few days ago, but I generally log 12K-19K steps a day. I've had my goal in MFP set to 1350 cals/day, but now that I've linked my FitBit its adding and INSANE amount of calories to my adjustment--like over a thousand. That doesn't seem like it can be right?! Any insight? If it's going to say I'm 1,000+ calories under each day by having them linked, I'd rather keep them separate.

    Seems like our stats are pretty similar. Not sure why you think 2500 is inflated?
    And this was at the lower end of your 12-19,000 steps.

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  • Angierae75
    Angierae75 Posts: 417 Member
    Colorscheme wrote: »
    Angierae75 wrote: »
    I'm set to lightly active and at 5400 steps my fitbit has already given me an extra 80 calories. I lost 30 pounds a couple years ago eating back my fitbit adjustments. I learned that I am FAR from sedentary, but I'd been trying to eat like I was.

    I'm set to lightly active now, eat back most of the fitbit adjustments, and I've lost about five pounds in five weeks, so I'm right on the schedule I was set at. (I recently upped my goal to 1.5# per week because I need to lose another 17 pounds before they'll list me on the kidney transplant list.)

    I think it depends on how fast you get the steps, because when I hit 5k steps I get 150 cals as those steps came from walking/jogging 4 mph for 30 mins.

    Yes, it changes by intensity.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Angierae75 wrote: »
    Colorscheme wrote: »
    Angierae75 wrote: »
    I'm set to lightly active and at 5400 steps my fitbit has already given me an extra 80 calories. I lost 30 pounds a couple years ago eating back my fitbit adjustments. I learned that I am FAR from sedentary, but I'd been trying to eat like I was.

    I'm set to lightly active now, eat back most of the fitbit adjustments, and I've lost about five pounds in five weeks, so I'm right on the schedule I was set at. (I recently upped my goal to 1.5# per week because I need to lose another 17 pounds before they'll list me on the kidney transplant list.)

    I think it depends on how fast you get the steps, because when I hit 5k steps I get 150 cals as those steps came from walking/jogging 4 mph for 30 mins.

    Yes, it changes by intensity.

    That was kinda broken with my One though! More intense minutes, more steps... less calories. Infuriating.
  • sandervoorn
    sandervoorn Posts: 1 Member
    The app gave me 760.540 extra calories to burn today because I Made a 3100 extra steps... Something is very wrong...
  • Deviette
    Deviette Posts: 978 Member
    edited December 2018
    ZOMBIE THREAD ALERT

    @sandervoorn: Have you got your fitbit set up for the same weight loss goals as MFP? Assuming you've got it set for 500kcal deficit, then 210kcals for 3100 extra steps seems about right.

    EDIT: Also as a note it's best to start up a new thread rather than bump up super old threads, as people are likely to miss your post and just talk to OP (who posted almost 3 years ago)

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