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Fitbit Calories burned synced with MFP are not the same. Why?

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Hi there, I have connected Fitbit with MFP.  I use FitBit Charge HR to calculate exercise calories, and I use MFP to capture what I eat.

 

Up to very recently I used to manually update MFP with the exercise calories from Fitbit.

 

Today I connected the two.

 

I exercised for 75 mins and the Fitbit dashboard shows 400 calories burned during exercise.

 

Why does this sync to MFP and shows 436 calories?  My expectation is that it would show the exact same calories that Fitbit tracked!  Is there a logic to what I see?

 

Can this be fixed please?

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Really disappointed with this. This is getting worse.

 

I did not do any more exercise since the one mentioned earlier:  So the fitbit dashboard still shows 400 cals for the 75 mins walk.

 

Looking into MFP it now shows 630 calories .   This is ridiculous.  That was precisely the reason why I was manually adding my exercises into MFP. 

 

I just want the exercise calories burned from Fitbit tracked exercises to be sync-ed into MFP.  Nothing else to be sync-ed.

 

And I want a clear answer as to whether this is possible or not.  If it is possible, please advice what setup I need to do. 

 

thank you all in advance.

 

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@IsmeneP Welcome to the Community! There's going to be a calorie adjustment made in MFP to show the same information. 

 

Fitbit is going to sync steps and calories burned to MFP and MFP will sync food and activities. It's better if you log activities that aren't step based in MFP so the calories get corrected in both accounts. See the screenshot. 

 

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