I've been using my Zip since last Saturday, and it has occured to me as of today that I am very confused on some of the features. When looking in the app it gives me 2,434 as a goal for calories burned. All last week I was eating roughly 1,690 calories; some days were a little under. My calorie burn displaying on Fit Bit was anywhere between 2700-3200, though not intentionally. I recently started playing Dance Dance Revolution again and some days I'll play it for 2-3 hours. However, every day the pie chart is saying I'm under my calories; I'm never in my goal. Where does the 2,434 in calories burned come from? Is that number my BMR + deficit to lose the amount of weight I've chosen? When I first started using the Fit Bit I was looking at the graph on the website where it compares my average calorie burn vs my average intake. It says my average calorie burn is 1,946 where as my intake is 1,573 on average. So I was thinking my deficit wasn't enough. Does my activity level chosen on My Fitness Pal have any effect on how Fit Bit records data? My activity level is set as active on MFP and to lose 1.5 lbs/wk, it gave me 1,690 calories. I'm 175 lbs, 5'6" and female. I had my activity level on MFP set to lightly active for the longest time, but I get in around 20k steps a day, so I decided to up it. I didn't lose any weight from last weekend, which I suspect is due to the fact that I've started playing DDR again and that I had my period last week. I'm just very confused since using the Fit Bit. I've been using MFP for the longest time with my old pedometer and everything just seemed so straight forward! I definitely don't want to keeping eating low on my calories in comparison to my calories burned, but I also don't want to be eating too many.
