#Fitbit calorie counter how to#

There are dozens of diet apps to choose from these days but the best offer so much more than a digital diary. You can use a variety of methods, from phone apps to fitness trackers, and the trouble isn't finding a tool to track your calories, it's choosing which one is right for you. It can quickly highlight what your normal eating habits are and where you might make improvements, which can perfectly complement the health and activity information from your wearable gadget. Read this: Mike's food tracking diary from week 1-9 Counting up all those snacks and meals can reveal some shocking news about your eating habits and highlight common misconceptions about the food you eat - not to mention the portion sizes you might be over-consuming. Having said that, using a calorie tracker is one of the best ways to get control of your diet. So just because you cut down your calorie intake it doesn't mean you shouldn't focus on the quality of your food to make sure you feel good and ultimately shift the fat in the long term - not just the weight in the short term. Thus, MFP will calculate your caloric needs based on MBT, sync that to fitbit, which, in turn ,will sync back the activieties / calories burned in form of calorie adjustment (which, confusingly, will show up in MFP as 'steps adjustment').There's been a lot of debate over recent years about the fact a calorie isn't always a calorie. Thusly, wouldn't it be the correct approach to either get the calories from MFP without any workout intention (or manually calculate MBR based on an of the three commonly used formulas or their average) and enter this into MFP. Which, I shouldn't be doing because I will get that from fitbit. The culprit in my understanding here is - the calculation on MFP adjusts the calories based on 'how often do you plan to exercise'. If I now enter this claorie goal into MFP, am I correct in understand that fitbit will sync my activities (walking, jump rope et al) - or, more precise, my HR based expenditure to MFP? aka, at the end of the day I should see a gross calorie level in MFP that is similar to the one my Charge 2 is giving me, despite MFP seemingly overestimating my MBR.

Necromancing this thread as I am still unsure about this - using MFP and fitbit (Charge 2), I calculated, as suggested by 'calorie goal' with the fitbit food plan, giving me a claorie goal that is roughly 100kcal higher then my calculated BMR. Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions All exercises and non-step based activities must be logged through Fitbit, otherwise MFP will count them as double.The accuracy of your Fitbit Log will depend on the accuracy of your MFP food logs.Now you're set! The food you log in from MFP will automatically edit your Fitbit caloric values for the day and it will reflect on your MFP calorie budget for the day. Now, go back to your Fitbit Screen and add the Net Calorie target you were given for the day and click on Done. Please bear in mind that mine is low because of my settings, but yours will be different. Now, you will get a Net calorie target for the day. Now on your Diet profile, add all the information required. Now on MyFitnessPal, click on Goals and (unless you have an specific nutrition goal) click on 'View Guided Setup' Instead of choosing the food plan options provided by Fitbit, click on 'Set my own Calorie Target'.

#Fitbit calorie counter how to#

I'll show you how to do it from my profile information.įirst, you'll need to go to your Food log page and click on the arrows on Food Plan until you see the option 'Edit Plan'.Īfter you've done this, click on 'Set a new Goal'Īdd your starting weight and your desired weight and click next. I have seen this situation happen whenever both accounts don't have the same caloric budget to work with so I recommend to disable Fitbit's Food Plan and add your MFP caloric budget as a main calorie goal. Welcome to the forums also a MyFitnessPal user and I'll be glad to help on this.