FitBit and MFP

cszul
cszul Posts: 3
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I've been using the FitBit the past few weeks and am loving that I can track everything. Anyway, I have it linked to MFP and it's always giving me calories back at the end of the day. However, I don't always go over my calorie goal. For example tonight I just went over my projected calories burned in the last hour but I synced up a few hours ago and it gave me back about 200 calories (calorie adjustment). Any idea how it works? Why is it adjusting my calories even though I hadn't reached my calorie goal for the day? Sorry if this is confusing - I'm confused myself. :)

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  • Drastiic
    Drastiic Posts: 322 Member
    Some of your questions can be answered here:
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/help/section/65-fitbit-integration
  • cszul
    cszul Posts: 3
    Wow, I should have known to look there. Thank you so much...now I get it! :)
  • bimpski
    bimpski Posts: 176 Member
    the fitbit adjustment was driving me crazy. when i logged my exercise with the start time, the number would post on mfp wall (or whatever you call it) but the fitbit adjustment was delayed so it looked like i was burning twice as many calories. there doesn't seem to be a way to re-post the correction, so i felt i had to "comment" the real calories burned. i kinda felt like a fraud. so i don't bother to log my start times anymore. i just let fitbit tell me the total at the end of the day. now the problem is this. if i exercise in the am and don't stay active throughout the day then mfp/fitbit takes away those calories i burned (yes, the number decreases even though i've already done the exercise). so if i log my exercise it's there to stay. if i don't log and just leave it up to mfp/fitbit then i can potentially lose those extra calories i've earned. that just doesn't seem right.
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