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When you forget your Fitbit...

Oishii
Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
in Social Groups
... What do you do? When it's only logging half the day, how do you compensate?

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  • NancyN795
    NancyN795 Posts: 1,134 Member
    First, I say some bad words. :) Then, I probably try to manually log any exercise I did and let MFP use its normal estimate for the rest of the day. To be honest, though, I haven't forgotten my Fitbit in over a year. Not since I switched to the Charge HR from the One. It was easy to forget to transfer the One when I changed clothes, but my Charge HR is pretty much always on my wrist.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    Perish the thought :worried: I try not to take a single step if my fitbit isn't attached to me :lol:
  • retirehappy
    retirehappy Posts: 4,757 Member
    edited May 2016
    Out curse a sailor. Then just turn around and go home to get it. Seriously, I have forgotten my fitbit twice and I did that both times. If you can't do that then do what @NancyN795 advised.
  • GBO323
    GBO323 Posts: 333 Member
    Actually, most phones have an app you can use to track steps. I just put my phone in my pocket, log the steps...and when I get back to my FitBit, I manually add the steps to Fitbit via the Web activity entry.
  • retirehappy
    retirehappy Posts: 4,757 Member
    edited May 2016
    Well I have an iPhone, after almost three years Siri still can barely understand anything I say to it, and when I tried to use the step counter it was so far off, I wouldn't depend on it for any information. I like the HR info as well as step counts, so my Charge HR is almost part of my body now. I am not a complete person without it. YMMV :)
  • beginforthelasttime16
    beginforthelasttime16 Posts: 533 Member
    Immediately stop taking any steps. If they don't count I'm not moving.

    On a serious note, if I can't just run and grab it I use the Iphone App just to have something!
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    I look at a block of time matching what I missed forgetting it on another typical day.

    I create an Activity Record for whatever was missed on that other day.
    That tells me steps, distance, and calories for that other day that probably matches really close.

    Then I create a Workout Record on this day of missed data of a walk of same distance and calorie burn, for that whole missed block of time.

    Since it only matter when you wake up and start moving, or at the point it wasn't put back on, it doesn't start at midnight.

    So now the missed time has same calorie burn and distance - and likely about the same steps.

    Works great if you really find similar day.

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