Calries In VS Out always showing UNDER

[molook]

Hello

I've been using Fitbit Force for nearly 3 weeks now. I love it a lot!! on average I walk nearly 10,000 steps daily, burn 2,600 calories daily.

I choose a Hard Food plan to keep me challenged and motivated too.

The Calories intake vs Out is always UNDER as I don't eat Carbs everyday and try to 4-5 meals a day.

I honestly need help, is it because Calories intake vs out showing under everyday is cause for me not to lose any weight?

Need help! s

[abb123]

If your in out is always under, it means you are consuming less calories than you are burning "theoretically".

The numbers FitBit gives you are not exact by any stretch of the imagination, but can be used as a basic guideline. 

If you aren't losing any weight even though you are well under the calorie out count, you might consider that the out number may be estimated a little high or that your food logging isn't as accurate as it could be.  

[SunsetRunner]

I would also wonder are you using a food scale to weigh all of your food so you know the exact serving size or are you just eyeballing it and/or using something like cups?  I found I need to weigh all my food to make sure I am not overestimating a serving size.  And measuring devices like cups are only good for liquid measurements.

[JenniLacey]

How do you not eat any carbs? Do you just eat meat and butter? Nearly everything has carbs in it. I doubt that would effect your cal in vs. cal out as it doesn't take into consideration your carb intake, just your calorie intake.

What does it say when you view your calories for the week? Does it just say you're under for the current day and "in" the previous days? It may just be the time you record your food. If you don't record until the following day perhaps... or it's assuming you're going to burn more than you actually are on the current day.

If not I would guess that you're way undereating because if you have your plan set to "Hard" and you're still not reaching your calorie goals it would mean you are essentially starving yourself.

Eating too little can actually harm your weight loss goals.

[Marlo1956]

What do you mean by calories set to the hard food plan?  Where is that option found?

[SunsetRunner]

It is the easy system Fitbit set up "Harder" Food Plan= 2lb/week loss (a weekly caloric deficit of 7,500 calories); "Kinda Hard" Food Plan = 1.5lb/week loss (5,250 weekly caloric deficit); "Medium" Food Plan = 1lb/week loss (3,500 weekly caloric deficit); and "Easier" = 0.5lb/week loss (1,750 weekly caloric deficit).  You can select your goal by click on the gear icon on the "Calories In vs Out" tile then click the pencil next to "Plan intensity" and follow the prompts.

[Marlo1956]

thanks for your answer

[molook]

Thank you everyone for your feedback

unfortunately 2 days ago my fitbit Force went DEAD! very frustrated