is my fitbit double tracking and adding to many calories back?

Baby43204

I have a fitbit charge hr and it tracks and syncs my steps to this app then I also add in my workout with burned calories.
cause it says my total step for the day is 14,280 which includes the time during my workout. then i add my burned calories during my workout.so for my steps for the day it gives me calories burned is 628 but that includes my calories that i entered for my burn so i think it is double adding. the other app that i think it is doubling in is my ymca activtrax app. what do you guys think is it add back to many?

NancyN795

I suggest you read the FAQ written by heybales that you can find in the stickies for the group. It will answer lots of questions.

Generally double tracking doesn't happen. It was a little unclear from your post exactly how you're tracking your exercise but chances are good it isn't doubling anything.

If you log your workout in MFP, then MFP will send that information to Fitbit and it will overwrite the data it had for that time with what you logged. So, no double tracking. However, I'm not familiar with the ymca activtrax app, so I suppose it is possible that it isn't well behaved and could be messing things up.

It isn't really clear where the 628 number that you mention is from. If that is your "Fitbit calorie adjustment" that shows in MFP, then that could be consistent with a 14K step day, even with a workout subtracted. (You don't say how many calories you logged for your workout.) If the 628 is your total "exercise calories" that show on your MFP home screen (Fitbit + logged exercise), that could be reasonable, too, depending on how intense those 14K steps were.

The general recommendation around here is to not log any exercise in MFP. If someone does exercise that their Fitbit can't track well (swimming, bicycling, weight lifting, yoga, etc.), then most people log that using Fitbit's activity log. And, if their Fitbit can track it (walking, running, aerobic dance, etc.) they don't manually log anything. This sort of thing is explained in depth in the FAQ I mentioned.