ehwilson wrote: »

I also feel I get way too many in adjustments. I turned on negative adjustments, but it isn't helping. As of right now (11:30 am), I have only walked just over 4,000 steps and I have an increase of 119 calories for the day. I don't feel I should have any. Is there a way around this?

That doesn't sound too unreasonable for 4,000 steps, although I don't know your stats or what your activity level is set to. What would you expect to see?

That sounds so much more reasonable than mine. I’m mostly sedentary, and as of 4:30 PM with just over 3000 steps logged its giving me 440 calories and it’s driving me nuts.

I have the same thing. MFP says I can eat 1171 cals more because I had 5969 steps.. Next day it was 2066 cals for 10597 steps. All my measurements are correct and I installed it for 1lbs weight loss/week. But if I would believe MFP, I should eat 3536 cals to lose weight.. lol

Steps does not equal calories.

Steps is used to calculate a distance.

Distance & time & mass = calories.

Different paced steps lead to different distance and different calories calculated.

And that calculation has nothing about fitness and activity levels in it.

Good observation, and indeed a problem if it slips to that method.

It needs about a week, and then it keeps improving on stats - to decide where that HR line is for moving into exercise.
Part of formula is resting HR. Part is steps. Part is amount time elevated
So if long enough with enough steps and elevated it goes back and tags that time as workout to apply HR-based to.

It's usually about 90 bpm in studies, so wouldn't be surprised if that's the starting point. called Flex HR point.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21904287

They've adjusted the step and time amount - not sure where it's currently at - Fitbit forums may mention it now.

The problem is if elevated HR compared to avg - may be slipping into that mode easier.
Other problem if out of shape which is figured if resting HR is higher than a certain amount - than lower line of cross-over.

About the only thing I've seen people do like if med's keep them elevated during daily activities - is disable HR on device.
They turn on for exercise, and from time to time to see what it is.
Turn on at night so Fitbit can estimate resting HR.

That change of HRmax changes the break points for the Zones that it labels certain HR's at.
It somewhat effects the calculation of calorie burn.

And as you noticed slightly raised the bottom level. so that's good method.

I think you'll find the numbers on Fitbit forums for when workouts are auto-counted - they've gotten that out before so people knew.
Kind of like the Active and Vigorous levels for the workouts.

PhillyD520 wrote: »

If you're using Fitbit Charge 3 HR, there is an issue with calculating steps. It is counting your arm movements in addition to your steps.

Is this a known issue?

Because the wrist devices have also had the challenging of attempting to register step impacts despite the fact the arm is swinging.

And they generally do good with that scenario - the problem was actually it would register less impact than reality depending on how you swing your arms - meaning less distance given, meaning less calorie burn than reality.

Also, generally the distance seen with non-steps is so minor and barely any calorie burn - it doesn't matter in the sense of daily calories.

For steps as a goal figure - sure it messes that up.

I've found this too. I got my Charge 3 about a month ago, and noticed a plateau in my weight loss. When the syncing issues happened last week, I just told it to stop counting my steps altogether, and have been manually entering any exercise I do into MFP, and immediately saw results. Now I'm using my fitbit to track exercise calories and remind me not to be as sedentary, but I'm not getting credit for the steps I take in MFP, and it's working much better.