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myfitnesspal linking to fitbit

mjlandru
mjlandru Posts: 2
edited November 2024 in Getting Started
I have the fitbit scales and the fitbit activity tracker. MFP shows that I am linked to both of these devices in the apps tab. My fitbit dashboard displays updates from my tracker and scales however this data is not appearing in MFP.

Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong???

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  • helenarriaza
    helenarriaza Posts: 517 Member
    Hey there! You will see Fitbit's information in your Food and Exercise diary represented as Fitbit Calories and Fitbit will show MFP's food logs as MFP-Log on your Log Page :)
  • mjlandru
    mjlandru Posts: 2
    Thank you for your response. I did see the fitbit calories burned as you mentioned.
    Why MFP show 47 calories burned and fitbit shows 1215 calories burned?
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    mjlandru wrote: »
    I did see the fitbit calories burned as you mentioned.
    Why MFP show 47 calories burned and fitbit shows 1215 calories burned?

    Click on your adjustment for more information. It's the difference between your Fitbit burn (which is your TDEE) and your MFP activity level.
  • FluffyNoMore26
    FluffyNoMore26 Posts: 92 Member
    Yeah if you have sedentary on your MFP settings it will be lower than the FitBit which defaults to standard or average I think.

    That and I think you have to log through MFP your food and then it will transfer to your fitbit. I havent tried logging anything on FitBit and seeing if it transfers into MFP.
  • CA_Underdog
    CA_Underdog Posts: 733 Member
    edited December 2014
    editorgrrl wrote: »
    mjlandru wrote: »
    I did see the fitbit calories burned as you mentioned.
    Why MFP show 47 calories burned and fitbit shows 1215 calories burned?

    Click on your adjustment for more information. It's the difference between your Fitbit burn (which is your TDEE) and your MFP activity level.

    Precisely. While you burned 1215 calories, you only exceeded MyFitnessPal's estimate of how many calories you would burn today based on your activity level by 47 calories.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    Krisleonard22 wrote: »
    That and I think you have to log through MFP your food and then it will transfer to your fitbit. I havent tried logging anything on FitBit and seeing if it transfers into MFP.

    Food & drink (including water) syncs one way: from MFP to Fitbit. But exercise syncs both ways, so any exercise logged in MFP overrides your Fitbit data during that time. There's no need to log any step-based activity—Fitbit tracks that for you. Non-step exercise (like swimming or biking) can be logged either in Fitbit or in MFP—never both.

    MFP has a Fitbit Users group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users
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