Double counting?

DessaLyn327

I have been doing a Leslie Sansone Walk at Home dvd. I count it as General Aerobics, but I wear my activity tracker--which is counting the steps. Since I am getting credit for both the steps and the general aerobics, I think I am double counting. How do others handle this? Thanks! Dessa

HRKinchen

I log all activities only on Garmin Connect (I have a Vivofit), and allow only GC to sync with MFP. I've discovered that GC won't doublecount calories burned or steps made as long as they fall during the same timeframe of the logged activity, and MFP won't doublecount them as long as I don't let multiple apps sync with MFP (e.g., I don't let the C25K app sync with MFP; I manually log those runs in GC and let it do all the syncs).

trigden1991

It sounds like you are double counting as you suspect. Pick one method and stick to it. I would track exercise and then eat back 50% of calories earned. Step count, calorie burns are massively overestimated in my opinion.

LivingtheLeanDream

Rule of thumb is to log exercise on your tracker (which will sync it here to MFP) and only log your food on MFP.

Purplebunnysarah

As long as the start and stop times sync up, MFP will override the tracker calories. If you want both the tracker #s and a MFP record, track your exercise on MFP as being 1 calorie for 1 minute. Then the tracker numbers will be used. Or use the MFP notes section in your diary.

DessaLyn327

Thanks everyone