Which do I trust?

[MissKai]

So prior to this I was using Loseit exclusively with great results!. I have had my fitbit for a couple of days. I get quite the discrepancy between how many calories I can still eat between the two. Loseit might say I have 300, but for example last night my fitbit dash board said 881 at one point.

I know that lose it works on a calculation that assumes a certain amount of activity. If I understand the fitbit adjustment correctly, fitbit is the truer number of what I really did. Yesterday I had an extra serving at dinner (440 calories) because it (fitbit dashboard) said I still had 800+. 

Just wondering! 

[MissKai]

Anyone?

[Jabrat]

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@MissKai wrote:

So prior to this I was using Loseit exclusively with great results!. I have had my fitbit for a couple of days. I get quite the discrepancy between how many calories I can still eat between the two. Loseit might say I have 300, but for example last night my fitbit dash board said 881 at one point.

I know that lose it works on a calculation that assumes a certain amount of activity. If I understand the fitbit adjustment correctly, fitbit is the truer number of what I really did. Yesterday I had an extra serving at dinner (440 calories) because it (fitbit dashboard) said I still had 800+. 

Just wondering! 

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Can't tell you about Lose it - I trust my Fitbit with all my heart!  I lost 40 pounds but I would have to compare the two - so I really couldn't answer until I tried Lose It - I logged my food in Weight Watchers and used my Fitbit for my steps, etc.  

[Ukase]

The thing about Fitbit - and the amount of calories you can still consume without gaining, it depends on whether you have your setting at Personal or Sedentary. Sedentary allots a given number of calories based on your BMR, whereas Personal looks at your past activity and assumes you'll be about that active. 

Fitbit also ends your day at midnight, whether you go to bed at 10pm or 3am. So, if you look at your log and see that you can still consume 800 calories, then you can probably do that if you're on sedentary and be okay. But - that depends on what you eat, when you eat it, etc. 

[carl669]

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@MissKai wrote:

So prior to this I was using Loseit exclusively with great results!. I have had my fitbit for a couple of days. I get quite the discrepancy between how many calories I can still eat between the two. Loseit might say I have 300, but for example last night my fitbit dash board said 881 at one point.

I know that lose it works on a calculation that assumes a certain amount of activity. If I understand the fitbit adjustment correctly, fitbit is the truer number of what I really did. Yesterday I had an extra serving at dinner (440 calories) because it (fitbit dashboard) said I still had 800+. 

Just wondering! 

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i can't comment on loseit as i've never used it.  the above bolded part stood out to me.  the question is, were you actually still hungry or did you have the serving because you had surplus calories?

while i like the calorie tracking, i've never used it to justify having more food if i wasn't hungry.  to be honest, i don't really count calories at all.  i mainly pay attention to carb/fat/protein intake.  as long as i keep those numbers in line, i almost never feel overly hungry and the calories seem to have a way of just working out.

[steff]

You can make the calories match up if you want, but I have forgotten how.  However, I found the solution in the discussion boards so you might try putting Lose it into the discussion search box and find it.

[MissKai]

To answer a few questions:

I have fitbit on personalized. My daily activity is usually the same. I take a three mile walk twice a day and I am up and down the stairs with my little one, or running around with my teen.

In regards to the question of the reason behind having an extra portion: I was indeed hungry. I exclusively nurse my five month old, so when he feeds more I tend to be more hungry in general!

[Rothrock42]

I use both Lose It and fitbit. I use fitbit to track all my activity and Lose It to track all my food and calories. Basically fitbit is output and LoseIt is input.

I have a premium account at LosetIt and that synchs up the fitbit data.

I always use the LI calorie recommendation. I find fitbit really confusing in that respect.

[steff]

I use lose it, too.  It's just easier.  I was referring to changing the setting on your fitbit dashboard to highly active or something, that's what mine seems to be set on...and that makes fitbit count up  calories instead of counting down from a certain number and then you have the fitbit and loseit counting the same when  you sync them.