MFP Overwriting Fitbit Exercise
SairaMegami
Posts: 14 Member
Hello everyone!
I'm sorry if this has been asked before. I have been searching for awhile online and failed to find any information on this topic.
I connected my Fitbit to MFP just yesterday, as I wanted to take advantage of the calorie tracking that can be shared between the two. When I did my exercise today, I synched the tracker as usual, and everything was fine. However, I made the mistake of logging my walk in MFP, too, and when it next synched, it overwrote the data my Charge HR recorded for my walk. I did not want this to happen at all!! Now I am missing a chunk of tracked exercise, and I deleted the MFP log as the information was vastly different.
I have found a ton of information on how to make MFP overwrite Fitbit exercise, but I am looking for the opposite - I want to restore the Fitbit workout, not the MFP information!! Does anyone have any advice on what I can do? It was pretty upsetting to watch my active days drop back by one, and I don't know all the information it collected to properly record my workout as a previous activity. I am very frustrated, and have disconnected the two applications.
Thank you for your time!
I'm sorry if this has been asked before. I have been searching for awhile online and failed to find any information on this topic.
I connected my Fitbit to MFP just yesterday, as I wanted to take advantage of the calorie tracking that can be shared between the two. When I did my exercise today, I synched the tracker as usual, and everything was fine. However, I made the mistake of logging my walk in MFP, too, and when it next synched, it overwrote the data my Charge HR recorded for my walk. I did not want this to happen at all!! Now I am missing a chunk of tracked exercise, and I deleted the MFP log as the information was vastly different.
I have found a ton of information on how to make MFP overwrite Fitbit exercise, but I am looking for the opposite - I want to restore the Fitbit workout, not the MFP information!! Does anyone have any advice on what I can do? It was pretty upsetting to watch my active days drop back by one, and I don't know all the information it collected to properly record my workout as a previous activity. I am very frustrated, and have disconnected the two applications.
Thank you for your time!
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I would recommend that you read the FAQ found in the stickies for this group. Here is a handy link: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy/p1
Basically, log all your food in MPF, log all your exercise in Fitbit. Your individual exercise sessions will not transfer from Fitbit to MFP, just the aggregate step and calorie burn information for the day, so if you want a wall post on MFP about your exercise, make one manually. Any exercise you log in MFP will overwrite the Fitbit data for that time, so just don't use MFP for exercise.0 -
Delete the MFP workouts - that delete will go over to Fitbit and delete the manual entry there (synced is considered manual - hence losing activity minutes).
If it's too long after it synced over - Fitbit already purged it's fine detailed data - so removing the MFP record means there is no original Fitbit data to show again.
Chalk up to learning experience in that case.0
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