What if Fitbit inflates the calories expended?

I do not feel that I have lost weight on this trip, despite treating everyday seriously as a relationship between calories in (Lose It) and energy expended as measured by Fitbit.  I will be back from vacation in a few days and what if the scale shows that I have gained rather than lost weight, though I had been so scrupulous.  I am seriously nervous, seriously concerned and seriously worried.  I eat to the Lose it calories indicated.  I start with 1100 and have "earned" up to 900 from walking over 20K steps.

What if I have been wrong on my calorie entry (I have been very conservative), what if I really don't burn 900 calories when I walk 20,000 steps?

Nervous.  Based on my basis of 1130 calories, I should have lost a little weight, minimum held within a pound, but NOT gained.  After almost 4 weeks of such cautious eating I seriously should have lost weight.

SO, if I didn't I cannot trust Fit Bit, or I cannot trust Lose It and this would be a big big loss for me going forward.

5 days into the trip --- so how goes the theory and practice?

I have thought about reporting my progress and I felt it was really important to give you the reality of my plan and an update on the "epiphany."

Two Apps:  Lose It and Fitbit  If I walk over 10,000 steps I get a small "bump" in the calories and at 16,000 I get a good sized bump.  This reflects what I have always known about traveling, I walk more, I can eat more.  Duh.  I understand this.  I thought about being concerned that I would get used to eating more when I got home, no, even here, I eat up to my Losing it limit 1134, period. 

Okay,  so, I started slow, because I am not counting on the "bump" until I know I am going over 10K.  So, I had an egg and heading out to Photograph New York.  Around 11:30 I was near a special place, a place my mother and I used to go to after a shopping trip downtown, Burger Heaven next to Paley Park.  I had had a turkey burger last week and since I did not know its composition I had to assume that it was a mix of dark and white meat and it was a big hit to my total.  I saw that their turkey burger was all breast meat, so I went for it and it was on a nice bun... I put it in the Losing it program. 

Here is what I am doing.  If I did not get the "bump" I might very well have had only a yogurt for dinner or added an apple or what I did yesterday, a protein salad at 360cal.  Instead, I kept walking until my knees started to hurt at 15, 000 steps, I got back to hotel at 16000 and sync'd my Fit Bit and there was  my bump...

We went to a famous steak house (Keen's, it was fabulous and not wildly expensive in the Pub) and ate off their Pub Menu, Sirloin (8oz) salad, cauliflower and broccoli sauteed.  My dinner with 5oz of beer, 8 oz of sirloin and butter (for sure) on the veggies was COMPLETELY WITHIN WHAT LOSE IT ALLOWED.  Oh yes, hubby got a cheese cake and I had added a potential for 2 oz of it for me, I had about 1/2 but left it as is in Losing it.  Guess what, I have 300 left.  Not hungry.

So, Guess what, followers, it is going GREAT!!!

Lessons... there was great bread on table, and alarm bells rang, I had two small pieces and knew that bread was one thing I could not use my "bump" for, except for on a burger/sandwich, its worth it.  Using it to have 8 oz rather than 6, was okay, being okay with a taste of Cheese Cake.

So far, so good.

B