MyFitnessPal Fitbit auto adjustments seems high

[SgtBoja]

Ive only been using my charge for about a week so it could be being accurate but I just havent accumulated enough data to see if its working but it seems like my fitbit is giving me far too many extra exercise calories toward my daily net goal on the MyFitnessPal app.

I have my daily activity set to Lightly active putting my food goal around 2200 calories (based on 6'1", 25y, 245lbs with a goal of 1.5lbs/w) Now I understand that its basing some of these numbers on BMR, guessing my calorie use from this inputted data but im afraid that im getting redundant calorie info. Yesterday for example, my charge gave me a 728 calories adjustment, which may be accurate since do quite a bit of walking at work as well as more physically taxing tasks but it still seems a little high. Had i also done my usual workout id have been looking at around a 1000 extra net calories for the day. Now looking at my dashboard, the fitbit tracking puts my daily calories burned goal at 3400 and by midnight it estimated I burned 3700. That 300 calories difference seems a lot more like what id expect especially on a day I skipped the gym. 

What it seems to me is happening is that the fitbit is detecting my extra activity at work and counting toward the automatic exercise adjustment which is what its supposed to do, so I guess what im asking is, is the auto adjustment overlapping with the BMR estimation of the MFP app and giving rudundant extra calories? Should I perhaps set my activity level to sedentary, assume no activity and let the fitbit data be the only modifier?

[SunsetRunner]

I have both my MFP & FitBit accounts to sedentary and have found no issue with inflated calories from FitBit to MFP in my almost 2 years of use.  The one true way to know if you are actually getting overestimated calorie information is to weigh yourself.  Track your food intake for a week and calories burned.  At the end of that week weigh yourself.  For every 3,500 calorie deficit you should lose a pound.  Granted water retention (from excessive exercise or increased sodium intake) can skew these numbers but if you are still losing weight then you know you aren't getting inflated #s.  

From my personal experience, losing over 100lbs, I have never had an issue with FitBit skewing the amount of calories I could eat.

[Zombieagain]

I also was confused at first on how to set myfitnesspal in order to work nicely with Fitbit. As others said, setting the activity level to sedentary turned out to work just great. Basically MFP will set a deficit for you (I actually set it manually using custom goals) and the Fitbit adjustment will change your food goal every day in order to maintain a constant deficit every day.

That said, the latest update to the Fitbit Android app is awesome and as of yesterday I abandoned MFP after using it religuously for two years and I started logging the food in the Fitbit app. There are pros and cons, but overall I don't see reasons to use MFP anymore. I especially love the multiple servings and custom servings options in Fitbit and the fact that I'm using only one app. Yes the MFP database is bigger, but that's not a problem for me. Accuracy is more important and the quality of the Fitbit database is on par, in my opinion, with MFP, it is just a smaller database for now.