So I thought I'd share what I learned by unlinking SP and Fitbit.
First let me say I found that Fitbit and SP have an entirely different way of calculating calories. Fitbit incorporates how many calories you burn just to make your body function everyday. Fitbit allows for all that in its calculations but SP doesn't make that same distinction so your calories burned are very inflated in SP which allows you to eat way more than you are suppose to.
After unlinking from SP, and letting fitbit do all the calculations for me it made perfect sense. I recorded all my food in both SP and Fitbit. In the log food section of Fitbit I chose a food plan that fit best for me. It automatically calculated how many calories I could eat based on the plan I chose and how much calories I earned from activity and those numbers were very realistic.
As far as recording my exercise in SP I just used my Active minutes from fitbit. I used "enter your own exercise" and put walked and entered the time I walked. It gave me 141 Calories.
I did not enter my fitbit steps which was 10,755 and 12 Floors (Stairs or inclines) into SP but I did manually record 6000 steps in the step tracker for what it was worth.
Fitbit had me as burning 2,111 calories yesterday. My total calories on my menu was 1224 so they subtract the 1224 from 2111 which gave me 887 calories allowed. 887 from the calories I consumed gave me an overage of 337 calories. NOW, hold on....:) I chose the hardest option yesterday to test the platform. If you want to lose 2lbs a week you need a calorie deficit of 1000. That means you have to earn them back by walking a lot more than 10,000 steps or do added exercises to earn those calories back. It was very interesting and quite accurate.
They allow you several options from easy, medium, kinda hard to Hard and it will tell you the calorie loss per week for each choice.
With Spark people they add the calories earned into amount allowed but if you want to lose weight you shouldn't eat all your hard earned calories.
I will stay on hardest this week and will report how I made out on Saturday. Not sure I want to keep up that pace, but will commit to one week of it. ;)
Little side note: If your not able to work that hard to earn the calories back in order to keep your calorie intake at a healthy level you should choose a plan that is realistic for you.
Hope this is helpful and not too confusing.
Have a great day!!
Edited by: M8ITHPN at: 10/26/2015 (08:46)
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