Ask Fitbit: why does my calorie allowance change throughout the day?
What is a Calorie Target?
Simply put, a calorie target is your daily calorie goal or the max number of calories you should eat each day. Having a calorie goal is important because it gives you a target to shoot for so that you don’t over or under eat. Getting adequate nutrition สมัคร UFABET วันนี้ รับเครดิตฟรีสำหรับสมาชิกใหม่ is critical to good health, but it’s also extremely important in weight control. As you probably know, experts believe that weight is largely dependent on how many calories you consume versus how many calories you burn via exercise, daily activity, and your body’s baseline metabolism.
How Fitbit Calculates Your Calorie Target
When you create a Food Plan. You have to enter your current weight and your goal weight. If you choose to lose or maintain weight, you can then pick a plan intensity: Easier, Medium, Kinda Hard, or Harder. This helps Fitbit determine how aggressively to set your deficit ie: how many fewer calories you need to eat each day to maintain or lose weight.
Understanding Your Daily “Estimate”
Once you choose an intensity, your plan is basically set. But don’t expect your Fitbit dashboard to spit out a fixed calorie target. Although that may seem easiest, it’s not the most efficient way to control your weight. That’s because the key number is your deficit. Which doesn’t change not your calorie target, which can fluctuate with your activity level.
At first glance, these stats seem to contradicting each other. You’re over your target but still have 406 calories left to eat? But what the meter on the left is telling you is that based on your current activity level and the time of day, you’re not on track to hit your deficit.
Using the example above, if you eat your remaining 406 calories, your daily total would be 2,137 calories. Even if you end up burning 2,500 calories. Which is still great since it’s more than you ate. It’s not enough to hit your 500 calorie daily deficit goal.