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Thank you @heybales!

Thank you for your reply @nicsflyingcircus ! I do have my stride length custom set and no, GPS is not always on. I do house walk as well but also step in place while watching a show and such. I was under the impression that if I marched in place(I believe @heybales mentioned it in another thread), distance picked up from…

Tonight's snack was quick oatmeal cooked in the microwave with chopped prunes and some whole milk. Warm, creamy and satisfying.

This^. Last night I was craving chocolate and peanut butter. Period. If I chose to be "good" and eaten an apple with peanut butter (1 small apple ~ 70-80 calories+1 T. PB 90 calories) that craving would've still been unmet.... Instead, I answered my craving with one square of Ghirardelli 60% chocolate (50 calories)+ 8 g…

@lesdarts180 Lesley, praying for you and your family.

It does sync if I wait long enough but it does glitch more often than not, hence why I do it manually. I admire and appreciate your drive to figure this out!

Heybales, thank you so much for taking the time to help me out with this issue! I do have auto-sync enabled on the Fitbit app but I don't think it's making any difference on the MFP's end.

Thank you for clarifying the negative adjustment function. I am manually synching Fitbit on the phone app, sometimes during the day and always in the evening around 9.

I went ahead and enabled negative adjustments. Thank you for bringing it up!

Yes, the am times that you see are screenshots I took the following day. The 9 pm sync screenshots are also taken the following day. I did not enable negative adjustments thinking I didn't need to do that because I regularly take more steps than my chosen sedentary activity setting and by synching Fitbit in the evening…

Thank you PAV once again for sharing your wisdom and knowledge! You have been a great help in my journey!

Do you mean the scale was not moving for six weeks and then one day last week you stepped on it and you were 3 lbs. lighter?

Wow. You blew me away once again by your insight. I will take your advice and go through the set up again. Thank you so much!

These are yesterday's figures.

You are amazing! I love how you go into nitty gritty of possibilities. Thank you so much! I did check the time zones. They are set correctly on both ends. Is this what you mean by detailed picture? Also, if the issue continues should I adjust my MFP goal to 1410 to get similar #'s on both ends?

Here are some screenshots of yesterday. Fitbit says that my TDEE was 1883. MFP adjusted total burn to 1923. Am reading this all wrong? My goals are set to maintain on both apps. Since I got my Fitbit (about 2 months ago) I have been going by MFP's weekly NET calorie goal and ignoring Fitbit's #'s. Is that ok?

So if I don't enable negative calorie adjustments the estimates will be inaccurate? I currently don't have them enabled because I regularly get 4,000+ steps a day and my activity is set to Sedentary. I suppose on sick days I will enable them. What is your advice?

This part was very helpful as well.

Thank you all for replying! So thankful for this community!

"Even if you logged 50 different items in the day, and every one was rounded down by your scale and not up, and they were all very calorie dense like butter, you're talking about less than 50 calories per day". Good point!

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Hugs. I can relate. If you are caffeine sensitive and don't consume it on a regular basis, I would try a cup of coffee. It helps me most of the time.

Heybales, thank you so much for your thorough explanation ! So, so helpful!

Another question. Most of my activity/exercise is step based. When I take a power walk/slow jog should I log it in the Fitbit app when I start and finish it or should not enter anything manually. Will calorie burn be more accurate if I track with GPS and HR on? I adjusted my stride length to 28 inches (I am 5'5") which I…

AnnPT77 and heybales, so sorry I just saw your most helpful replies! My sleep is good and my nutrition is on point. My gut feeling is that I need to eat more. I gathered from both you is that I need to be play around with upping my calories to find my sweet spot. Thank you both for sharing your wisdom! Hugs!

Thank you Azdak! Yes, Dr. Hall is brilliant and highly respected in his field. His lectures on YouTube are very enlightening.

Thank you for looking into it! 🤗

But you can also mark "very light" and it will not add any calories to your "what you do at leisure time".

Thank you for checking Mike! I still find it puzzling why such a significant discrepancy between the two reputable sources.

The NIH number does not include exercise.