Under budget??

[A.barton2727]

I have a question about my calorie deficit. Everyday I try to burn at least 2000 calories. I also try to be active for at least an hour and a half. I drink about 64 fluid ounces of water. My question is when I track my food intake, I only average out to about 1500 calories daily. It says that I am always under budget. I thought the whole purpose of losing weight was eat less and be active more. I started this whole thing with the Fitbit charge 2 about 3 weeks ago. Everyday doing at least some kind of exercise, eating healthier but still having a little Indulgence so I don't give up. I am just confused about the under budget and the over budget. For example yesterday, I burned about 3,000 calories. My food intake was about

[A.barton2727]

Continuing my message from above, yesterday my intake was 960 calories. Does this mean I am losing weight or gaining weight? I feel a lot more energy and I am able to stay awake for a lot longer without a nap midday. Please help me and my confusion.

[Rich_Laue]

Hello @A.barton2727 I have a question for you, has your clothing started to get looser in fit? 

When starting out many find that the extra activity starts building muscle as well as burning fat. It is very possible for a person not to loose weight, but loose inches during the first month. 

Your increased stamina is telling you that muscle is being built, especially the heart muscle. 

Yes if you are more active then before, and eat less than you use to, you should loose weight. 

I've moved your post out of the hardware board and into the weight management board. 

[YogiRay]

Rich while I was responding to this message, I got an error message when posting that the post was no longer available and this must be because you move the message to a different section you referenced in your post "moved to weight management ". From "hardware".  Tthis would be something interesting to test from an information technology standpoint why I lost my five paragraph response...    I started editing a post about 20 minutes ago and when I went to post it came to an error,   Thanks in advance for acknowledgement.

FYI, I am a new user and trying to post a comment only a second time

[YogiRay]

The question at hand is how does Fitbit count calories and like USDA I believe Fitbit will be using an average for how to calculate calories, and how they are expended. This will be very different with every product, and how it is cooked, along with your activities. I believe as you progress and with a further input of data collection and time your averages will prove to make more sense.

For example, The most wildly accepted standard for years sInce 1985 USDA's home and garden bulletin number 72 recorded a calorie for one hard boiled boiled egg would be 78 cal while fried in butter would be 92 cal. This being said fitbit calculates calorie for one hard boiled egg at 77 cal.

There are more interesting parts to this which break down the averages in a easy way per ounces. I have purchased one carton of 18 Egglands Best eggs (32 oz) which are termed large which are said at 60 cal per egg, while separately I have 12 eggs from Guintas Meat Farms Jumbo (30 oz), at 90 cals each. Both equal the same.

18 x 60 = 1080 cals
12 x 90 = 1080 cals - Same

Activities: someone from fitbit would have to answer this : Can you put some sort of offset into BMR ? The basal metabolic rate BMR is the rate at which the body support itself and processes energy while doing nothing at all. This is different for everyone which includes factors of: age, height growth, body composition, fever, stress, environmental, temperature, fasting, malnutrition, thyroxine which is a hormone that supports BMR. You may look at changing your height or weight or stride, but your question is a very good one! I am interested to see how Fitbit explains the question? How to calculate this, otherwise you could not have a benchmark and can't know if you are getting fit?

Separately, and another thought is the costs question you should look at: All things being equal with the production of eggs the next step would be to see how much you're paying at the pump or in dollars for example the Eglin's best eggs were $4.69 while the meat farms eggs at the same ounce level were $1.99. There being the same oversight on production and the calorie content is the same why pay more for the same thing?

[YogiRay]

Yes Rich is very right, muscle weighs more than fat.  Nice one

[Rich_Laue]

@YogiRay when the app is moved a current poster is suppose to follow, according to @MatthewFitbit but I find it doesn't always. I usually hit the back button and find the input box gets refilled with my post. If not tap your name or picture in the top right, this will bring up a list of saved partial posts that have not been submitted. 

Yes I could have answered like you, but felt I would bring it down to real world experience.

When it comes to the BMR no there is no offset, there is a suggestion for this in the feature suggestion area. The problem is fitbit asumes we are all average,, unfortunately there is only one average person each for a male and female.