fitbit app adding calories for food

[jmasiello]

I have been using Fitbit with My Fitness Pal for several months with no problems. I only log food on My Fitness Pal and only track steps on Fitbit, but normally the Fitbit tracker accurately shows the data for the food that I have entered into My Fitness Pal. All of a sudden, Fitbit is showing crazy calories. For instance so far today, the food that i have eaten and entered into My Fitness Pal add up to about 1050 calories. Fitbit is showing 4800 calories. Earlier when I had listed about 500 calories, Fitbit was showing over 3000 calories. It keeps telling me that i am over my calorie budget. Any ideas of how to correct this? 

The food entered in My Fitness Pal is showing up correctly in My Fitness Pal.

Thank you

[sexypetals]

Got the same problem. It reckons I've eaten nearly 13000 calories for dinner!!

[Mayoi]

I'm having the same problem with the sync to MFP. So far, the dashboard says I've eaten 20,038 calories today, while MFP has me at 1,565 calories.

Apparently I didn't account for eating an extra four pounds of lard somewhere...

Hopefully this will be corrected soon; earlier syncs today went just fine.

(And it would be nice if Fitbit was syncing with Weight Watchers correctly, but I'm not holding my breath on that one.)

[jmasiello]

LOL thanks for responding, glad it isnt only me. Hope it gets fixed soon.

[Crashleyw]

Oh good, glad I'm not tHe only one! I'm up to nearly 7000 calories today! I know I had some bacon but geez...

[Yme]

Yeah, I'm 40.000 calories over budget today, so there is some odd issue with the sync between MyFitnesspla and fitbit 😄

It worked fine 7 hours ago, so it's something that has happend within that timeframe.

[Shayallen]

I am having the same issue with fitness pal I've eaten 850 calories but my fit it is saying I'm over budget with 4380 calories intake....what the heck? I've tried resetting but it didn't fix the problem! 😞

[LyseAnne]

Same problem here, with fitbit and MyFitnesspal.  Fitbit had about 30 fictional entries in total, distributed among the meal categories. I deleted all of the inaccurate ones, and now the food "more details" page looks less discouraging, but the dashboard has some trouble knowing which number is larger.

Thank goodness for this community to share our issues on. it helped me calm down a bit!

[sleepingfatty]

Same here. Hope the problem will be fixed soon. Really annoying for an OCD user...

[Mayoi]

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@LyseAnne wrote:

I deleted all of the inaccurate ones

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Yes, I had to do that too, and have had to do it again this morning. Hopefully they'll fix it soon.

[Ckay60]

Thanks all, I thought I was sneaking into the fridge when I was sleepwalking so many extra calories have been shoeing up in the last 12 hours.. good to know all of you phantom eaters are around!

[LeighSvelte]

OMG!! fitbit says I ate 3300 calories more than I did - multiple snacks, dinners and lunches -
My dietician is going to think I had a massive binge! I am currently on a Very Low Cal Diet - this does not go unoticed - hopefully it can be fixed?

[J4mbob]

Yea I noticed this happening the last couple of days, very annoying having to manually remove them. It seems to be adding each individual item in my fitness pal along with the total summary for dinner / lunch / snacks etc resulting in a very incorrect count.

[HPott]

This issue just happened to pop up the same day that I did the most recent app update for Fitbit, so that's crazy, isn't it?

[Tlmeyn]

Same here.. Last couple of days the imported calorie count is 2-3 or 7 times what it should be. It told me I ate al let 9000 calories on Wednesday. Please fix this

[Nbrim]

My fitness pal help says they are aware of the problem and hope to have it corrected soon.

[RobertE]

Nbrim, thank you for the information.

I wonder if it is MyFitness Pal or FitBit that is the problem. The problem for me started on October 21st (Wednesday), and on that day my phone updated FitBit to version 2.15.

[Nbrim]

Sent from my iPad

[HPott]

I would guess it is Fitbit app is the issue, since it was same day as the update

[xIcyx]

me too... Hope it is fixed soon 😞