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Calories according to FitBit.

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‎01-26-2014 19:18

‎01-26-2014 19:18

Ok, my dashboard says I should be burning 2,971 calories a day.  I have my FitBit set to sync with my MyFitnessPal account.  According to FitBit I haven't quite met my calorie goal for the daym, but on MyFitnessPal it says that I earned back about 440 calories from exercise (I did exercise today).  I was just wondering if anyone knows how FitBit canme up 2,971 calories needing to be burned every day and why it's saying I've earned calories back if it also says I haven't burned my full daily calories yet.  (I'm not looking to eat those earned calories, I'm just wondering how this works.)

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‎01-26-2014 19:51

‎01-26-2014 19:51

So,  both sites work a bit differently. 

 

Fitbit - Calculates your calorie burn throughout the day - including the standard calories of survival ( breathing, sleeping, etc). Every time you log into Fitbit, the calories burned will be adjusted.  It also tracks the deficit of calorie burn to food intake, if you have any. 

 

MFP- Starts with the caloric intake as a fixed number.  Any exercise input into MFP, whether manually logging, or via the fitbit feed, will "adjust" the "extra" calories you could eat to maintain.

 

Unfortunately, this is not an apples to apples comparison ( until you log in at 11:59 pm) 

 

 

 

 

Goals: Low Carb, high fat, 70-20-10 .... lose 20 pounds by 6/2017
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