asantoroski wrote: » You have to put the time you cycled, otherwise it will pick whatever time and it could coordinate to when you were actually using your fitbit. I was making that mistake for a while until I figured it out. So if you cycled from 7pm to 8pm.. with no fitbit, it should calculate normal, if the cycling was entered for 6pm by mistake but you were out for a walk, the cycling will cancel out the steps because it assumes those steps are from cycling so you don't double dip. Hopefully this makes sense.
nickchristian3910 wrote: » Sorry still confused. To me 1+1 =2 not 0. If fitbit tells my MFP that by 2.00 pm I have earned 300 extra calories. I then go for a cycle ride which burns another 300 calories. 300+300 = 600 burned by 3.00pm not 0? If I wore the fitbit and it added 300 due to leg movement during my cycle ride fine. 600+300 -(300 adjustment) = 600.
nortonpc wrote: » I am probably doing a bad job of explaining this. You have your BMR which is what your body burns just sitting around. When you exercise and manually put the numbers in, your fitbit and the exercise would count that number twice. In the above picture you can see where my garmin has essentially overstated the amount of calories burned and it is going to push me beyond what the fitbit thinks I have done for the whole day. If I run but I am super lazy the rest of the day, fitbit attempts to account for that. I think this is really a matter of what you feel comfortable with, I think that fitness trackers tend to over estimate the calories we really burn so I normally only eat back about 50% of my exercise calories. Does this help?