fitbit questions about logging exercise

fastingfurious35

I'm new to fitbit- I'm sure this has been asked but I can't find now

when you use a bike or an elliptical - or if you are swimming ? - does it track anything for you ? steps or calories ?

when I'm done working out - let's say I did 45 min of elliptical - should I log it here on mfp as my cardio exercise - or should I log it into fitbit ?
I don't want it to " double " the calories burned so how do I prevent that ?

shadow2soul

You would need to manually log for the exercises you mentioned.
Doesn't matter which site you log on, it asks for time + duration so that it can overwrite the fitbit calorie burn for that time period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8duevx9y9TY&feature=youtu.be

Also this is how the adjustments will work:
MFP logged-


Fitbit logged-

• Fitbit burn goes past red line = positive adjustment/added calories to eat for the day
• Fitbit burn is under the blue line = negative adjusment if enabled or 0 adjustment