Users were clamoring for it to be done on both sides.īecause MFP is expecting and receives from almost all other fitness trackers the required total daily calorie burn and timestamp of that info - it does the math for rest the day and there's your adjustment. I'm going to bet that at the time of MFP initially getting Apple interested in doing the work on their side to make the sync happen, they either didn't go back to tell Apple they did it wrong, or Apple said that's it for what we are doing. I always suspected FitBit of over egging it a bit, but this is a massive difference that I just can't fathom out.Īnyone else have any experience? Should I log a support ticket with MFP staff? However, I am seeing a huge difference in numbers in the calorie adjustment between to the two activity trackers.ġ5,047 steps on Monday using FitBit equated to 1337 calories earnedġ5,529 steps today on Apple Watch equated to 448 calories earned. I haven't changed a single setting in MFP apart from the data source for the step count and permitting MFP access to HealthKit. I have been a FitBit user for many years and yesterday changed to an Apple Watch series 4.

Subtract your daily average surplus from your daily average intake to get approximate TDEEįitbit estimates 1963 and my actual estimate based on intake/loss is 1997. +/- lbs * 3500 = Approx 30 Day deficit or surplusģ0 Day Deficit or Surplus / 30 = average daily deficit or surplusĪdd your daily average deficit to your average daily intake to get approximate TDEE Now look at your weight change in lbs over those 30 Days. Now average out your total daily intake calories (make sure you are using total.not NET) for the same time frame. Your Fitbit profile page on the website will show you a 30 Day Average burn. There is a way to see how accurate Fitbit is for you: I ended up going back to Fitbit.įor me Fitbit is spot on in terms of calories burned. I was eating 2000 on average at the time and losing weight). For me though the Gear S2 was underestimating my calories by a lot (saying my maintenance was 1600 with an average of 12k steps. I had a similar experience going from Fitbit to Samsung Gear S2. If you are set to Sedentary on MFP, I would expect more calories for a day where you got 15k+ steps. My guess is that how they transfer data is different.

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