Eating more with the Fitbit? I cant believe how many calories I need to eat

[janettehuy]

In the past I've used Jenny Craig and my fitness pal to estimate how many calories I need to eat to lose weight.  They have always estimated around 1400 cals.

With my fit bit, I can't understand how I can possibly lose weight eating my suggested 1800-2000+ cals per day (1000 cal defecit) It feels like a huge amount of food..Im never hungry...

Can I trust what fitbit is telling me to eat and still lose weight? 

[wmchapman]

Sounds about right, actually a 600 calorie deficit (burn 2000 calories, eat 1400)

but most average sized and aged women burn about 1600 to 1800 calories per active day, so 1400 calories in leaves just a 200 calorie deficit - would take 3400/200 = 17 days to lose  pound, you might want to really push for that 600 calorie deficit - 3400/600 = 4-5 days per pound.

Your fitbit is telling you how many calories you CAN eat based on how many you are burning to stay on your program.  You can adjust the aggressiveness of the program by clicking the gray'd gear on your activity tile on a PC and setting for the suggested activity cals 😉

Or choose easier, medium, kinda hard or harder from the gray'd gear on the calories tile on the food plan tab.

[MarciM]

@janettehuyIt's great to use calories as a guiding principle, but more important than raw calories is the quality of the food you are eating. Most meal plan diet program promote you eating 'fake' food, better to eat a few more calories and make sure they are whole foods. Your body naturally knows how to burn calories from nature whole foods, thus it doesn't get stored as fat like a bunch of non-fat fake foods do. 

Good luck on your journey and I have your Fitbit keeps you moving forward.