Fitbit integration a month later?
IIRC the "official" setup recommendation used to be to set Crono to BMR only and to "add exercise" calories via Fitbit integration
This used to yield a "same-ish" end of day TDEE between Fitbit and Crono.
For myself, the trivial <15 Cal discrepancies (up to August 30) were never a problem to work with.
Since August 30 things have changed.
With the exception of three days where I messed around trying to fix things (forced sync deleted exercises etc) all the rest of the days are consistently 578/579 Cal off. Both on days I logged food on Crono and on days I didn't. With Crono always showing the lower TDEE.
Obviously whatever happened on August 30 is here to stay. OR, maybe my account is one where the "fix" didn't work?
Is there any official insight on what happened and any guidance on how to adjust and move forward?
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same here. Before, crono used to say I burnt 4 calories a day more than Fitbit so sure that’s fine and also pretty reassuring. Now it adds exercise (later in the day) but not the calories burnt by moving around. I’m pretty sure that if you spend an hour vigorously cleaning your house/taking the trash outside etc. that you’re burning calories. All those kind of activities add up throughout the day and Fitbit reflects that. Crono doesn’t. So they are a couple of hundred different. Huge concern to me as I’m going by Fitbit calories as don’t trust crono with the missed ones but fear I could be gaining weight due to not trusting either program anymore. Can’t step on scales to check as it’s too triggering and am not supposed to. Cronometer keep blaming Fitbit but I think they just want to pass the buck.
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You say you're going by Fitbit calories, so I will assume you're doing so manually.
The Fitbit calories at midnight are what Crono was always using, so if you're still able to keep track and stick to that number--or, more correctly, if you're able to stick to the deficit or surplus you're trying to create from that number--then you would have no reason to fear. The Fitbit TDEE number is what you've been using for the past forever while things were still working.
The problem, of course, is that it is inconvenient to have to switch apps and manually/mentally recalculate everything as opposed to just looking at your calories remaining on Crono. And, even more so, it messes with the spreadsheets and the pretty graphs and long term data because the numbers no longer really line up.
Some people have proposed disconnecting and adding a custom exercise to account for the difference. This will work. But what happens when things eventually start to synchronize correctly?
Oh well. There is, apparently, some hope for October 9 or so if/when fitbit releases some sort of update, maybe?