omron calories vs FitBit

[ReconMarine]

For the past 4 months I have been using an Omron pedometer. On Monday I bought a Flex. Just to compare I am using both...

Omron says I "burned" 700 calories during my walking workout, FitBit added over 1600 to my daily allotment.

I use My Fitness Pal and record my food, sync with FitBit but I thinks its giving me way too many calories for usage....

What am I missing?

Thanks,

Nick

[josephz2va]

You can modify your FitBit's caloric allotment from the Dashboard. On either the Food or the Cals in vs Out, there's a gear button. Then edit the program. If it's set too easy, you can set it to Extreme for proper diet calorie watching.

I have it set to extreme as I burn too much a day anyways and eat extremely light.

[Mary]

How long was your walk?  Does your Omron include BMR calories?  Is the 1600 from the Fitbit for the whole day up til the time you checked it or just your walk?  (If just your walk, it better have been reeaaaalllly long!)  

[slysam]

Just to clarify, the "fitbit adjustment" on MFP is not your exercise caloreis exactly. What it is: MFP expects that you burn a certain amount of calories from your BMR and your general activity (excluding any exercise you might log on MFP). Whenever MFP and Fitbit sync, MFP compares your Fitbit calorie burn so far to what MFP expects you should ahve burned since 12am. What MFP expects is based on your profile stats (height, weight, age and gender) and the activity level you selected on MFP. So if set to sedentary (using as an example because it seems the most common setting), MFP compares what someone like you would burn at a sedentary level since 12am today to your fitibt burn. It gives an adjustment to make up the difference. To further complicate things, MFP needs a 24 hour estimate so it makes one up--it projects your total fitbit burn based on your fitbit burn so far and your MFP activity level for time remaining. A 1600 adjustment just sounds like: your burned some calories from exercise you didn't log on MFP like your walk (which is fine) and you were more active than whatever activity level you chose outside your walk. The adjustment can decrease though, and mine usually does in the evening when I become less active. So I would suggest just keeping an eye on it at first to see where it typically ends up. If you keep seeing this sized adjustment, especially on non-exercise days, I would suggest increasing your MFP activity level. 

By the way, if you want to fairly compare your Omron and Flex calorie burns... You need to make an activity record on Fitbit. You do this using the timer you use for sleep timing, you start the timer before your walk and stop it at the end of your walk. When you sync your fitbit, there will be an activity record in your fitbit activity log. The record will show all sorts of fitbit tracked/estimated stats for the covered time period including the calorie burn, steps, distance, etc.