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Did W2D2 yesterday. It is still a struggle, which is a little frustrating, since I know that I can run a lot longer on the treadmill. But, that's why I started over again when doing it outside - I knew it was going to be harder. I am running faster (on average) than I do on the treadmill. I really like the stats I can get…

Make sure that your stride length is correct in your Fitbit settings. If it is too long, you will get more calories for walking than you should. But, weight training is more of a long term benefit, I think, than a short term calorie burning exercise.

Check your settings, check the math that MFP is using to calculate your adjustment, etc. Something has to be off, but you haven't supplied enough information to figure out where the problem is.

"logging exercises in Fitbit", in this case, means manually logging exercise that isn't detected automatically. Individual exercises are not transferred from Fitbit to MFP, just aggregate calorie burn and step data.

I'm not sure about Insanity - the HR monitor on your Blaze may handle that fine, but I don't know enough about it to be sure. The HR algorithms work best for steady state cardio. However, I know that you need to enter weight training manually, because the HR formulas don't work for that. But, you don't need to enter either…

Did W2D1 this afternoon, plus a longish walk (4 miles) this morning. Really, really windy again. I really think the wind makes it much harder, but the running uphill for the first half is tough, too. It's so much easier after I turn around to head home and it's mostly downhill. Oh well, I'd rather have to go uphill to…

Everything is an estimate. Everything. The food you log, the calories that MFP thinks you'll burn, the calories that Fitbit thinks you have burned. Everything. But, some estimates are better than others. Fitbit's estimates of the calories you burn are based on better data than MFP. MFP just has your stats, chosen activity…

@lemonychild : I only add exercise on Fitbit. (Read the FAQ, it explains lots of these sorts of things.) missblondi2u is right, that if you log exercise in MFP, it overwrites your computed calorie burn from Fitbit for that time, resulting in a lower Fitbit adjustment. I would recommend that you experiment with logging an…

Today looks okay so far, but yesterday is still messed up. Plus, when I try to look at things for yesterday I'm intermittently getting the "Site Temporarily Down for Maintenance" screen. I tried to add a 1 calorie cardio exercise to yesterday, to see if I could force a recalculation, but it didn't fix it. I did post a…

Don't blame an app update unless you have good reason. First, check to see if both the mobile app and the website are misbehaving. Or ask whether other people who are having the problem use the same platform you do. For instance, I suspect you have an iPhone, because my Android app hasn't had an update. But, I'm having…

Now I've got two adjustments and NEITHER one is right. (Actually, that's on the website, on my phone I've only got one incorrect adjustment - but it's very, very wrong.) The one that will show me the calculation has a wildly incorrect MyFitnessPal Calories Burned number. Sort of like when they had the step source bug, but…

Yes, there seems to be new issues. I'm getting duplicate adjustments - one is right, the other is wrong, but I can only delete the one that is right.

I'm getting two adjustments and it won't let me delete the faulty one. It will only let me delete the one that is right! Arrgh! (Fortunately, I haven't been very active this afternoon, so the faulty one isn't too far off, but still... )

I wouldn't think so. Steps aren't calories. MFP's calculation of your Fitbit adjustment doesn't use steps at all. Plus, MFP recently had a bug where if you had a Fitbit linked but "Don't track steps" selected, then the "MyFitnessPal Calories Burned" number in that calculation was way too high and kept changing. They say…

Did W1D3 today. Really, really windy. So, no long walk today. Instead, I'll do Zumba to strengthen my knees.

You're supposed to consume them. If you've set up MFP to lose at an appropriate rate then not eating them means you're creating a deficit that is too big, which is counterproductive in the long run. If you want to leave some uneaten because you're lousy at logging your food, or because you've systematically determined that…

It's normal to lose a few calories overnight (when sleeping, or even just being inactive in the evening). It's the same reason that you wake up with a negative Fitbit adjustment in the morning. I computed that I lose about 13.5 calories of Fitbit adjustment per hour when I'm asleep. The earlier you go to bed (or veg out in…

That's odd. It would drive me nuts, too. I would probably try to fix it, because while I use MFP for deciding how much to eat and Fitbit for exercise, when I decide it is time to evaluate how accurate my Fitbit/food logging has been, I go to my Fitbit profile page to get my average calories eaten vs. calories burned for…

I'd recommend reading the FAQ found in the stickies, if you haven't already. It has lots of good information. Here's a handy link: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy/p1

@mathiar86 : Did you look on the Food Log page in Fitbit when your dinner seemed to be too many calories. One bug that has cropped up from time to time is multiple meal summaries transferring from MFP to Fitbit. Typically, only one is right, but Fitbit uses all of them. I've never been able to figure out what causes it…

I "completed" the program back around Christmas on the treadmill, but wasn't actually running 5K. I was just running the prescribed time. I did keep at it, though, and once ran what the treadmill said was 5K, although I did stop a few times in the middle. Now the weather has improved enough that I feel like I can start…

I would recommend that you read the FAQ found in the stickies. Here's a handy link: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy/p1 The recommendation is to log all exercise in Fitbit, not MFP. MFP wants you to log it here because it…

It's hard to say if the numbers are off. If you worked hard in that exercise class, at your weight, I don't see that calorie count being outrageous. Adjusting your activity level won't actually make a difference. Yes, your "Fitbit Calorie Adjustment" (which isn't technically just "exercise" calories, even though it shows…

It's normal to wake up with a negative calorie adjustment. It has to do with the difference in how MFP and Fitbit calculate your expected calorie burn. MFP assumes your activity level is constant for 24 hours, so even if you're set to Sedentary, you're less active than that while you're sleeping. After you get up and start…

I don't think setting a custom heart rate zone will affect any calorie calculations done by Fitbit. It just changes the display of when you're in an exercise zone. However, I have gathered that, over time, it will adjust calorie calculation itself based on your resting heart rate. (And you can definitely affect that…

When people say that Fitbit's calorie estimate is high, they mean how many calories Fitbit thinks you've burned (and, thus, their calorie adjustment in MFP), not the calorie burn goal. I've never touched my calorie burn goal in Fitbit and it's never changed, despite quite a lot of weight loss. I don't know how they came up…

You can't get rid of the personal or sedentary option, I don't think. It's one or the other, once you've chosen a food plan. But, you can ignore that tile, or just take it off your dashboard. I keep the Food Plan tile on my dashboard even though I go by MFP for eating, but not the Calories in vs. Calories out tile. That…

No, you SHOULD set the Fitbit deficit goal, for consistency. But you have less control over the eating goal than you have in MFP. In MFP, you enter your stats - height, weight, age, gender - and your activity level and MFP sets your eating goal (or, you can set it manually, I think, but that's a completely separate…

They had an outage today (i.e. MFP had a problem communicating with Fitbit). As far as I can tell, it's fixed now, although it may not have caught up for everyone.

@melissa112: You did it right. Just pick the same deficit as MFP. Since Fitbit has a different way of determining the number of calories you have to eat, you don't set that. Just go by MFP. And, the "Sedentary" setting in Fitbit is different than the "Sedentary" activity level in MFP. It doesn't make any difference to how…