Fitbit/MyFitnessPal Discrepancy

[Jenny1989]

I will try to keep this as short and sweet as possible and hopefully the solution is even shorter and sweeter!

I wear a Charge 2 Fitbit and the app/program/tracker are synced and have all my personal stats. 

I recently, after much recommendation, created a MyFitnessPal account which is synced with my Fitbit tracker and account and thus also has my personal stats. I use MyFitnessPal to track my calorie intake (food and drinks) and to keep track of my daily calorie goal.

Fitbit seems to sync my steps to MyFitnessPal throughout the day which is great. In MyFitnessPal, it shows up as "Fitbit tracker calorie adjustment" (and an example, from the other day, would be "6,275 steps, 425 calories"). What is the adjustment? To me that suggests there is some hidden math going on there and not a straight sync of steps taken and associated calories; is that because it's taking into account BMR-based calorie burn? At, for example, 7pm on any given day, my steps could be the same between MyFitnessPal and Fitbit (meaning is has done a sync) but my tracker might say "2000 calories burned" so far and MyFitnessPal may say "750" in terms of "exercise" (meaning calories burned).

Then...

When I workout (intentional exercise) it is usually 30-60 minutes of stationary biking my followed by a high intensity (enough to keep my heart rate up and body sweating) circuit of weights and plyometrics. I record these on my Fitbit tracker by, for example, selecting "Bicycling" then starting the timer. 

I go home, open MyFitnessPal and Fitbit app to cross reference and the workouts successfully sync from my tracker to my Fitbit app but the workouts never sync from Fitbit to MyFitnessPal. I do this manually by entering the type of exercise, the time I did it, the duration of the workout, and the calories burned - all as dictated by my Charge 2 and Fitbit apps.

Assuming that, with the steps that get synce automatically, there is some sort

of "adjustment" or math happening that I cannot see, is it inaccurate for me to input into MyFitnessPal my workouts and calories burned as dictated by Fitbit?

There just seem to be discrepancies between Fitbit and MyFitnessPal throughout the day regarding calories burned. The only thing that seems to be syncing is my number of steps and even then, the calories burned appear to be different. 

It would be great to know where and at what point(s) throughout the day the BMR calories are being accounted for, and I would also like to confirm that I am inputting my workouts in correctly; is it safe to assume the Charge 2 is accurately counting the calories I burn while the timer is running on Bicycling, and am I double-counting my calories burned by entering this manually into MyFitnessPal?

I was under the impression that anything tracked by my Charge 2 would transfer automatically from Fitbit to MyFitnessPal and that I would only manually input my calorie intake (food/drink) into MyFitnessPal. Aside from manually entering food and drinks, I thought that together these apps that this would be a compressive documentation in MyFitnessPal of my calorie goal (based on my personal stats and weight loss goal), my daily calorie intake, daily calorie expenditure (be it naturally burned [BMR] or burned during intentional exercise).

That wasn't as short and sweet as I would have like, sorry! If this is more so a question for the MyFitnessPal community then I apologize! Thank you in advance for your time and patience with my apparent technology-inept self.

[Rich_Laue]

You can find some information here:

You also might want to go on MFP's community help site, since they are the ones responsible for this.