Automation = Better tracking = Better results. What's your setup?

cbrosh

Nothing pumps me up more than seeing my net calories come in under my goal, and when my progress chart shows steady weight loss! I have more success when everything is consistently tracked, and automation seems to have made the difference for me to finally stick with it!

I'm on the iPhone, with the Apple Health Kit acting as a hub between MFP and everything else.

I track on my Apple Watch. The "yellow ring" (work out) activity is automatically uploaded into MFP. As in I open the app on my watch, tell it what kind of workout to start, and then tell it when I'm done. 5 seconds later, it's logged in MFP with all the distance, pace, time, calories, and other stats included. Additionally, it automatically tracks & adds calories for the non-workout activites through out the day via the "red ring." I never manually log any active calories.

I know that MFP wants us to buy the Under Armour scale, but I went for the cheaper Blu Beetz smart scale with bluetooth. I weigh in and it automatically goes into Apple Health Kit and then into MFP's weight tracker.

Like most people I eat the same 7-10 things at home and the same 4-5 restaurants for lunch everyday (subway, taco bell fresca tacos, Jimmy J's unwhich, etc...). So I save all the "usuals" as 'my foods' and it makes it much quicker to log my food (which is now the ONLY thing I have to enter manually for very accurate results!).

cbrosh

Now if someone could just come up with a smart watch app that recognizes the wrist motion you make when taking drink from a water bottle or glass of water... Then we can auto log our water too

ccsernica

cbrosh wrote: »

Now if someone could just come up with a smart watch app that recognizes the wrist motion you make when taking drink from a water bottle or glass of water... Then we can auto log our water too

That is, unfortunately, the same motion as when you drink a beer or an eggnog.

CM_73

cbrosh wrote: »

Nothing pumps me up more than seeing my net calories come in under my goal, and when my progress chart shows steady weight loss! I have more success when everything is consistently tracked, and automation seems to have made the difference for me to finally stick with it!

I'm on the iPhone, with the Apple Health Kit acting as a hub between MFP and everything else.

I track on my Apple Watch. The "yellow ring" (work out) activity is automatically uploaded into MFP. As in I open the app on my watch, tell it what kind of workout to start, and then tell it when I'm done. 5 seconds later, it's logged in MFP with all the distance, pace, time, calories, and other stats included. Additionally, it automatically tracks & adds calories for the non-workout activites through out the day via the "red ring." I never manually log any active calories.

I know that MFP wants us to buy the Under Armour scale, but I went for the cheaper Blu Beetz smart scale with bluetooth. I weigh in and it automatically goes into Apple Health Kit and then into MFP's weight tracker.

Like most people I eat the same 7-10 things at home and the same 4-5 restaurants for lunch everyday (subway, taco bell fresca tacos, Jimmy J's unwhich, etc...). So I save all the "usuals" as 'my foods' and it makes it much quicker to log my food (which is now the ONLY thing I have to enter manually for very accurate results!).

I'm with you.
I love gadgets, and tech although I'm not that great at operating it. Personally, if I could get some sort of implant fitted that would scan everything I consume and sync that with MFP along with transmitting HR/blood pressure/breathing rate volume etc then I'd be a very happy man!

As we're some way off that... I have a Garmin vivoactive HR which syncs to MFP. I use an unconnected weighing scale, I weigh daily and the results of that go into my Libra app to monitor the trend. Weekly, I'll take a weight is logged to Garmin connect which then syncs that to MFP to adjust my calorie goal.
On top of that, I then log weekly onto a spreadsheet which calculates BMI, rate of loss, converts the number to KG and stone and plots another graph.
MFP data is synced to Endomondo as I like the way that it displays workouts and the HR graphs so I can assess performance against effort.

Obviously, absolutely none of that is necessary to achieve my goals. But, I enjoy the stats, it gives me extra motivation and all helps me in my journey which is what it's all about

Alatariel75

ccsernica wrote: »

cbrosh wrote: »

Now if someone could just come up with a smart watch app that recognizes the wrist motion you make when taking drink from a water bottle or glass of water... Then we can auto log our water too

That is, unfortunately, the same motion as when you drink a beer or an eggnog.

Or you'd get a message "Well done, you just drank 53 cups of water in under 30 seconds!!" ifyaknowwhatimean