Newbie to Fitbit

breeze_brat

Hi everyone! I just got the Fitbit Zip a few days ago and think I got it setup correctly with MFP. I did it under the apps area and it says installed. Under my profile in exercise for yesterday its listed under cardiovascular and says Fitbit Calorie Adjustment but it's not listed under today. I don't know if it's working which is what I am asking, how do you know? I had it synced to Fitbit's website and things were working there but I don't know about here. Any help is appreciated.

FishyK

It's not listing a calorie adjustment today because it's early. Unless you've done a few thousand steps already, it won't give you extra calories until you've earned them with exercise.

breeze_brat

Thank you FishyK, appreciate you replying. Thought maybe I did something wrong.

NancyN795

It's possible you're having a sync problem. First, make sure you have negative calorie adjustments enabled. (In MFP, got to Settings->Diary Settings->Calorie Adjustments.) If you don't, then it may be that it won't show at all early in the day before you've been active. With that set correctly, the only time I've not had a Fitbit Calorie Adjustment not show up was the one day I had a syncing problem. Some people seem to have a lot of trouble with syncing and for others, like me, it is a very rare occurrence. I've often wondered what the difference is that causes some people to have more trouble than others.

I think there is an MFP problem at the moment. My Home page says that my news feed is temporarily unavailable and the last sync it did with Fitbit was over 4 hours ago. So, I'm guessing that is the source of your problem. Still, check your negative calorie adjustment setting. It's important to have that enabled.

breeze_brat

Thanks Nancy! I do have that checked/enabled. On the fitbit website it says 1173 steps so far not much I know but still MFP doesn't say anything about the fitbit. I am confused, I was just wanting to see if it would give the same info as the website so I could compare.

didiwindiva

I'm having the same problem on my fitbit page it show the steps i took. But on myfitnesspal it shows 0 steps.

NancyN795

MFP seems to be back up again for me - I can see my news feed and it has the latest info from Fitbit.