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Fitbit & Exercise Calories

CLARB85
CLARB85 Posts: 19 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Hey! Sorry if this has been asked before but I can’t seem to find it. I’ve just started using MFP and have just synced my Fitbit. Will the calorie exercise burned figure sync up pretty much right away? Reason being, I am planning on eating back some of my exercise calories (obviously I won’t if I don’t feel like I need to) but would need to know how many I burned pretty much straight away wouldn’t I! I don’t want to get to midnight starving and realise I could have eaten 400 calories in exercise until it updates! Hope that makes sense!! Thanks.

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  • kiay131982
    kiay131982 Posts: 217 Member
    My fitbit itself is slow to sync to my app, but once it has then it usually shows up on mfp pretty quick!
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Exercise calories do not sync to MFP, Fitbit didn't do that option.

    But Fitbit like all good trackers sends a Daily Burn figure for MFP to correct itself.

    That difference of correction could be exercise, increased daily activity, or usually a little of both.

    First day is not a good test as figures will be off anyway.

    Usually it's fast sync, unless there are issues.

    Don't log workouts on MFP as that now forces a sync back to Fitbit to replace what it had, and then a new daily burn sent back to MFP. That just increases the potential for an issue.

    And since that Fitbit adjustment is more than just exercise - eat it up.

    If you are doing more than MFP guessed from your selected activity level with no exercise - you eat more.
    After all - if MFP had nailed it right on with what Fitbit is reporting anyway - you'd be eating them all and no question would enter your mind since there'd be no adjustment.
  • CLARB85
    CLARB85 Posts: 19 Member
    heybales wrote: »
    Exercise calories do not sync to MFP, Fitbit didn't do that option.

    But Fitbit like all good trackers sends a Daily Burn figure for MFP to correct itself.

    That difference of correction could be exercise, increased daily activity, or usually a little of both.

    First day is not a good test as figures will be off anyway.

    Usually it's fast sync, unless there are issues.

    Don't log workouts on MFP as that now forces a sync back to Fitbit to replace what it had, and then a new daily burn sent back to MFP. That just increases the potential for an issue.

    And since that Fitbit adjustment is more than just exercise - eat it up.

    If you are doing more than MFP guessed from your selected activity level with no exercise - you eat more.
    After all - if MFP had nailed it right on with what Fitbit is reporting anyway - you'd be eating them all and no question would enter your mind since there'd be no adjustment.

    Thanks so much for this! Very helpful. I’ll keep an eye on it - thank you!
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