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Your calorie goal for the day is going to START off based on what MFP THINKS you are going to burn, and is going to END with what FITBIT calculated that you ACTUALLY burned. MFP needs to start with a calorie goal and then fitbit adjusts that goal as you burn calories. So yes, the goal is going to change if you select a…

oh I didn't realize there was a beginner's one

You're wrong. The calorie goal for the day on MFP is going to be based on the activity level that you choose, then as Fitbit records your activity, that goal number will increase or decrease, based on how active you are. If you are given a calorie goal of 1500 from MFP that is based on a deficit from your TDEE - based on…

when are you starting? I Plan on starting it on November 4th

BUMP

then you could be tracking HUNDREDS of bogus steps due to being on a train or driving, which totally defeats the purpose of using the Fitbit in the first place. So you wear it to track your steps and then let it count hundreds of steps you didn't even take? that makes sense.

I wanted to come back here and update this because it has been awhile now, and their wedding is actually now in a few weeks - and all this time, he has still continued making all of these rude comments to both of us. - We had redone our kitchen before we knew him, and the cabinets are from Ikea. One random day, he was in…

I do have negative calories enabled and I don't really mind it updating throughout the day even though I don't work out until later. As I said, I pretty much know how many calories I'm going to end up burning anyway, unless I have some random out of the norm day with a TON of extra calories burned, which is extremely rare.

I was just looking at you profile. That thread you linked to about counting WW points on MFP was actually posted by me!! How random!

I wonder how many people are looking at this "net" number and wrongly eating too many calories to make up for it.

No I had posted a response and then realized I was wrong, so deleted it.

I'm not having too much of an issue with calorie goal because I know how much to eat on non exericse days and I pretty much burn around the same amount of calories when I do work out, so I know what I should be eating on those days then. I don't go to bed until around 11pm and I can get a pretty good estimate of how much…

Nevermind

Seems to me like REALLY poor design on MFP's part, no? It should be able to give me an accurate report.... It isn't so much that the Fitbit burn "allows you to eat over your MFP number", it forces you to eat back your exercise calories in order to net at your goal number. MFP just isn't realizing thats what you did.

Here is a screenshot from the last week (ignore today since I'm not done eating yet). Every day I've been eating at around a 500 cal +- 100 or so calories off of my daily burn. None of these should be under 1250. *actually the only time these numbers are right are on days I didn't work out, for example Sunday, I actually…

I didn't eat 1453 yesterday, I ate 1308, so my deficit was actually 633, not 488. But, I have NO quesiton about this. My issue is MFP, Under the reports section, shows NET CALORIES for yesterday at 1195. How is that possible??

Maybe I can explain this better. If I wasn't using a fitbit, MFP would have a daily calorie goal set for me, say 1250 calories. Then, I workout, and burn 200 calories. If I only ate 1250 calories that day, then I really would've netted 1050 calories. If I eat another 200 calories, now I've eaten 1450 and burned 200, so I…

But Fitbit automatically makes MFP increase your daily goal number based off your exercise. I ate MORE because of that. Had I only ate 1250 and then burned 249 exercising, I could understand why I'd be under. But I ate 1308 to accomodate for exercise, I should've netted If it said I netted 1100, I would've had to eat…

As of right now, it shows: Calories Burned From Normal Daily Activity 1,830 cal/day So yes..

I don't usually notice, but it did say "hug me" the other day

i'm having major issues synching today.. MFP food diary is synching into Fitbit, but MFP isn't updating the Fitbit calorie adjustment properly, I've tried removing the app, re-adding it and sometimes that forces it, but now the last time it has updated was over 4 hrs ago no matter what I do. I give up.

Is there a way to find old calendars on the blog? Nevermind, I found April 2013, it actually does look pretty cool, doing every video she ever made up until that point. Now I'm considering doing that one instead of October....I like the variety too.

Um because it does. I've seen it for a fact with myself. If I don't drink enough water, I don't lose weight. If I drink more water, I lose weight. It DEFINITELY helps me lose weight.

First of all, stop weighing yourself multiple times per day/per week. Weigh in once per week, on the same day and at the same time (if possible), preferably in the morning before you've eaten and drank anything. Yes, sodium will make you retain water, but if you've eaten food all day, of course you are going to weigh more…

I completely agree. I drink abut 100 oz per day (a little more than half my weight). Don't have to pee as often as I used to, and I snack less because I am not mistaking thirst for hunger anymore. My pee is clear!!

thanks, I hadn't realized that entering the exercise activity would negate the Calories that the Fitbit had recorded. I'll have to play around with mine to be sure. As for driving, I wear my One on my bra and it records a LOT of steps for a 20 minute drive to work sometimes. Not every time, but sometimes. It isn't a bumpy…

I found this on the FB message board, confirmed the only way to override/delete steps/floors is to enter a driving activity for that time period: http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/Can-I-delete-data

It doesn't really know you are running though, no?? Or does it know? And it accurately calculates how man calories you burned running, verses just walking all of those steps? (because I assume you would burn more running a mile than you would walking a mile, no?)

question 1 about the volleyball: if you want the fitbit to count the steps that you are taking during volleyball then leave the fitbit on you. Then, input the activity into MFP, to get credit for the calories burned + the steps taken.. doing this, you are going to get an innaccurate calories burned number, because the…