Reached Target - Why has Fit Bit changed my eating plan?

[Lands]

Howdy, I'm looking for some advice from those of you that has already crossed this path. As I have been losing weight, I've not really known how to make the transition over to maintenance, and have just kept on lowering my goal. But I am now well under weight to what I initially aimed for and have just left that target weight as my goal. I see Fit Bit has now automatically adjusted my calorie intake, and it actually looks a lot higher than just adding the 500 calorie per day deficit I was on. 

I am assuming that this is because my actual weight has dropped below my goal weight and Fit Bit wants me to increase my weight?

I am obviously concerned about sudden drastic increases in daily intake as I have been on a successful journey and do not want to sabotage all my hard work. 

I have been using MFP in conjuction with Fit Bit for my daily logging, so my question is,

If I switch my goal to maintenance, does this have any effect on the information Fit Bit sends over to MFP? My FitBit logging has been purely what MFP sends over and I have been using MFP as the actual basis to my eating plan, but I do not want Fit Bit to alter what info it sends over..

[Heybales · Accepted solution]

First - you know that fast weight loss in the first week or two that happened?

Happens to everyone starting a diet.

Water weight, some perhaps because you watched sodium better, so if you stop, that will retain some water.

Mostly though, you depleted your carb stores in muscles which has attached water, and that has continued the whole time to varying degrees.

Guess what comes back when you finally eat more, especially if your exercise was only cardio, just begging the muscle to store more without eating it?

But this is good weight, you should have a goal weight range, because a single number will drive you crazy, and is crazy to attempt.

This extra carb/water is extra LBM, and increased metabolism. It's as much desired by the body as increased blood volume when you exercise and get hot a lot.

Would you drain blood to lose weight?

So perhaps not to freak out with what should happen if you have a healthy body, is if indeed you were eating 500 below what you burned, do 2 weeks at 400 below daily. Then 2 weeks at 300 below, ect. Until eating what you burn.

The 2 sites are separate, and goals have no interference with each other. You could set Fitbit to a foolish 2 lb weekly loss, and MFP to desired maintenance, and the only thing Fitbit reports to MFP is what you burned in total for the day.

MFP sees that, adjusts what it thought you would burn, and changes to eating goal to match when set at maintenance.

[treasa]

what is mfp

[Heybales]

My Fitness Pal.

Despite the name, their claim to fame is a great food database, and about first for bar code scanning.

Well, and that is becoming rather unwieldy now, because of so many user entered entries that are actually incorrect.

And manufacturers change their product size or make up, and therefore nutrition info, but keep scan code the same. So now that really doesn't work well either.

The site also has a ton of integration with other sites, like Fitbit, that don't want to remake the wheel of their own food database, so they sync calorie burn info for the day, or exercise, over to MFP.

www.myfitnesspal.com

[Corney]

When you fast your body goes into starvation mode. The body makes up for the lost calories it needs by burning protein( muscle) not fat.  The by-product of protein motabolism is urea, which is excreted from you body in urine.  Any quick weight lose is just fluid.  If anyone who thinks fasting is a god way to lose weight I advice they find a body analyser.  You will find that you have lost weight but your percent body fat has gone up because you have lost muscle mass.  For three years I was the exercise consultant for a surgical bariatric program, people who didn't combine 20 minutes of aerobic exercise in their training zone, lost weight, but their percent body fat increased due to the loss of muscle mass.  Peoples training zone is found by subtracting their age from 220 and multiplying by 75%.  A person is 50 years old.  220-50= 170,

170x75%=128, that is their target heart rate,  If you don't have a heart rate monitor, exercise at rate that brings a sweat, but you can still carry on a confortable conversation.  Diets, fasting do not lead to lasting fat loss, they lead to YoYo weight loss which is dangerous to the body!