Calorie Deficit/Zone Problem

[AnnaHolmqut]

Hi! So I am very confused by the calorie zone/deficit module under "Food". I understand the point is to monitor your food throughout the day, and you eat to stay in the zone, and by the end of the day you'll have stayed within your goals. Great. This can be frustrating for meal prepping, when it says you are in the red but within your calories, but it makes sense if it is monitoring calorie deficit. 

What I don't understand is how I have a 3200kcal output and a 1,700kcal input with a hundred calories left for my daily calorie goal and yet I am "over"! That's a 1,500 calorie deficit. So now I feel like I don't understand what the zone is saying, because it's not basing it on a healthy calorie deficit else I would be under. For example., MyFitnessPal adjusts by saying I can eat another 700kcal. That wouldn't meet the deficit I desire, but it is still adjusting based upon my activity/calorie comparison. Is that not the point of "the zone" as well, to adjust to your calorie output?

[MarcoGFitbit]

Hello @AnnaHolmqut, I hope you're having a great day, it's a pleasure for me to welcome you to the Fitbit Community. 

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. At this moment I would like to ask you for a screenshot of the Fitbit app while inside of the Food tile so I can check this further and report it if necessary. 

Thanks for your patience and understanding, I'll be waiting for your reply. 

[MrMarv]

@AnnaHolmqut - 

To save me a large amount of typing and loading images, may I point you to a topic here on this board where I discussed a lot of what you are asking about?

Also, something that I don't believe I addressed in the post below that the actual bar chart on the app's food page addresses over/under at that moment in time and does not consider remaining BMR (which is explained in the post).

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Fitbit-com-Dashboard/Need-help-with-caloric-deficit/m-p/2401195

Then feel free to come back here to share your thoughts and ask any questions you would like to ask.

And please, when you post, use @MrMarv in your response so I will be notified of your post.

@MarcoGFitbit -  you are welcome to chime in, as well.

Welcome to the boards.