Calorie adjustment seems way too high

[KVMan]

Everyday, I always seem to get too much calories from my adjustment in MFP from my Fitbit steps. 

Please take for example today's calories.

I have a daily goal of 1200 calories and so far I've eaten 815. But my Fitbit adjustments gives me an extra 1526 calories.

That cant be right. I didn't do any exercise today. Most of my current steps came from walking around a mall in a leisurely pace.

How do i correct this? 

Everyday when i complete my log in MFP, it always tells me i'll end up being 51-53 kg in 5 weeks which is kind of impossible given that I'm 61 kg right now and I consume a more than 1200 calories a day sometimes. 

Edited to add: I never had this problem when I was using my iPhone's step tracker. Before it would only give an adjustment of 200-400 with the same number of steps.

I understand Fitbit also includes my BMR in their calculation, but even without exercise and not even 5,000 steps, I still get 1000+ calories. I feel like Fitbit's total adjustment is doubling that of MFP's.

[RobertoME]

Hello @KVMan, good to see you around again in the Fitbit Community. Perhaps the following post might be of your help to resolved this discrepancies: MyFitnessPal: How to correct calorie discrepancy from MFP to Fitbit.

Keep me posted how it goes. I'll be around.

[KVMan]

@RobertoME Hi, I did this as well before. However no adjustments were shown at all si I didn't know How much extra calories I had that I could spend so it defeats the purpose of having adjustments, doesn't it?

[RobertoME]

Hi there @KVMan, thank you for keep me posted. I see on your previous post your calories coming from exercise are 1,526 which on your description, is not possible due to the amount of exercise you are doing.

In my experience it looks like a regular amount of calories burned given the fact your Fitbit will track also your BMR as you mentioned before, which is almost half of the total calories of your day. Perhaps the following post will provide a better explanation from a user perspective regarding calories burned. Please take a look at this post shared by @SebringDon.

I had a similar conversation also with other user about calories, which might be helpful as additional information. If you are interested in this conversation please visit this post.

Nonetheless if you feel your calories are too high in your Fitbit account, perhaps doing a restart on your tracker will resolve this issue. In your Community profile appear a Blaze tracker paired, so the following steps might be of your help:

1. Press and hold the Back and Select buttons (left and bottom right) until you see the Fitbit logo on the screen. This should take less than 10 seconds.
2. Let go of the buttons.

Hope this suggestion helps, otherwise just keep me posted for more helps.

[ClaireRebecca]

Hi, I too am having this issue today. Fitbit tracker calorie adjustment is 3,077 steps / 2,754, and I have also done a swim today that has tracked 465 calories. Something isnt right. I'm not technical at all, so I'm really stuck with this...

I've also recently added Strava which is being a pain, and purchased an Apple Watch so that I can track my swimming. Since having the Apple Watch, everything seems to have gone mental with all my other apps, and nothing is logging properly. I'm currently wearing both my fitbit and my Apple watch...... 

Thank you for your help....! 

[RobertoME]

Hello there @ClaireRebecca, let me start by giving you a warm welcome to our Fitbit Community and my apologies for the late response.

I'm wondering how ti goes so far regarding your calorie adjustment? If you need more help perhaps the following post might give you some extra help: My Fitness Pal calorie adjustment.

Regarding your Strava and AppleWatch concern, remember that there isn't a direct integration with AppleWatch, but I'm not sure what is the issue you are experiencing with Strava. If you need assistance with this, feel free to let me know a few more details and I'll be happy to share with you what I know regarding integrations.

See you later and hope this helps.

[taskmaster]

Same issue here which has been an intermitant issue for years.  I can do pretty much 10k steps daily for a week, of the same nature, walking around at work, and get adjustments ranging from 700 calories to 2500, which happened today. It's absurd and leaves me having to manually adjust every day.

[patwa]

Anyone still on this issue? I positively thought that Fitbit adjustment might be higher than iPhone tracker because it takes Heart rate into account. However it’s been so unpredictable and I don’t know what’s going on anymore.

I have sedentary lifestyle and on the other day I walked 3,401 steps which Fitbit adjustment was only 2 calories. Yesterday I walked 6,852 steps which became 422 calories adjustment. Last week was 7,244 steps = 123 calories. How is that even possible?

I’m so frustrated with this since I thought having Fitbit would make my life easier. If anyone can clarify this it’d be very appreciated.

[Claire1981]

It would appear that no one is looking at this issue, as I’ve had no reply despite raising this issue three times now. I’m always fobbed off with resetting my device etc

[Clarencescrubb]

I started having this issue May 15,2018 where I went from having sensible calorie adjustments to insanely high adjustments. I was allotted 900 calories for 11k steps. When I looked at the numbers in the Fitbit app, the adjustment was sensible but in MyFitnessPal, totally out of whack. Can someone please fix this problem?!

[Runwithmatches]

I tracked using MFP every day for 3 years and on sedentary days I might burn 100-300 calories. I started tracking again and something has changed since I last used the app last year. Today was a very sedentary day for me (5k steps) and MFP gave me 700 calories from Fitbit. I'm not sure what changed but it is a drastic difference.

Edited to add: I have negative adjustments enabled in MFP and it still seems high 

[RobertoME]

Hi there everyone and my apologies for the late response. I noticed some new faces in the Fitbit Community, welcome aboard @Runwithmatches, @Clarencescrubb and @Claire1981.

I was reading your concerns and it seem there is still questions on the calorie adjustment reported in MyFitnessPal. If you have try the previous recommendation, please give it a try.

I found some additional help that might be of your help and will explain in depth the calorie adjustment. To learn more please review this post from MyFitnessPal here.

If you feel the calorie adjustment changed all of a sudden and it might not be correct, perhaps reconnecting your accounts will refresh the integration. 

1. From the Application settings in the web dashboard or the Fitbit app dashboard, tap the Account icon 
2. If you are in the app, scroll down and tap or click Manage Data > Manage 3rd Party Apps.
3. Log in to your Fitbit account and continue.
4. Either if this is the web Dashboard or the app Tap Revoke Access to disconnect an app from your Fitbit account. 
5. Once this has been done, reconnect MFP to Fitbit again. (For more details this post will served as a reference).

If the issue continue and the calories reported in your Fitbit Dashboard are correct, please feel free to approach to MyFitnessPal Customer support to learn more if this is an issue from their end. At the moment, we do not have word this is an issue or glitch that could affecting the calorie adjustment.

See you around.

[someone123]

I just linked my Fitbit to MyFitnessPal and I too am having issues with the number of calories reported to MFP.  I tried the link referenced at the top of the page which suggests adjusting your Fitbit food plan, via the 'edit plan' button, but there is none.  When I search the page for it, I can only find the following reference in the page source:

<a id="food_goal_modal" class="ui-button bEditGoal right">Edit Plan</a>

It looks like you incorrectly coded your website and all of my efforts to report it to your customer service staff ends up in endless load screens that goes nowhere.  

I too lead a sedentary lifestyle and walked 4,179 steps and FitBit reported burning 1,461 calories while doing so.  No one has to be a mathematician to figure out that it's wrong.

Since I'm unable to change this and I'd rather not have erroneous data filling up MyFitnessPal, I've decided to unlink my accounts since I cannot trust the information coming from Fitbit.

[Pbpunisher]

Ya I did the same thing. I'll just manual out in my exercise. My fitbit heart rate is incorrect also. If I put on a chest strap the fitbit is always lower. I'm not to impressed with the fitbit at this point. I doubt I would buy another one. 

[SunsetRunner]

its extremely frustrating 😞

[SunsetRunner]

I am also having this problem!

😞

[MonsieurDS]

I experienced the same with my MFP. Even with the adjustments and frankly useless forum solutions offered by these moderators, the caloric adjustments are simply way too high.

Like you, I was on 1600 calories/day. I would do 15k steps and then be given 1200 additional calories. Even on face value that estimate was laughable.

Faced with this problem, I delinked my fitbit tracker with my MFP profile and am doing my calorie profile the old school way of tracking my own exercise with MFP's sedentary option chosen.

[MonsieurDS]

@RobertoME 

As an aside, I am curious: do all fitbit moderators respond in the same fashion? At first, it seemed like you all were being welcoming in your initial responses, then I noticed that all moderators respond in the same, canned fashion. Are you all provided with scripts when it comes to interacting with people? 

I've read the majority of fitbit moderator responses and you all seem to operate on the same level:

1.) Saccharine greeting

2.) Provide links that respond to the question at hand but do not PROVIDE solutions (i.e a response isn't necessarily a solution

3.) End your responses on the same thread "I'll be around if you have any more questions?"

[Jpnh]

2022 and I'm hitting this affects me too?

I bet the MFP integration doesn't take into account that MFP does its own estimation of base calories burned without exercise. So probably Fitbit and MFP together are double counting. Not sure whether Fitbit or MFP is responsible for fixing this but the integration is misleading, and therefore quite pointless, without a fix. Would love to see one!

[buggygg]

Not sure if this if your problem as well, but I had to make sure my time zone in MFP and Fitbit were the same. Worth checking if you’ve moved time zones.