MapMyWalk and Fitbit not working together?

smc92079

I wear my fitbit one when I walk in the evenings but I also use MapMyWalk so I can keep track of distance and time. It seems like the MFP app is double counting my activity and giving me almost double the exercise calories while on the website it only seems to be tracking my fitbit activity. Has anyone had this problem or have any insight?

heybales

After the workout is finished, it doesn't correct the activity calories and daily calories to match what is on the website, and it sounds like reality?

I've seen several with Garmin's synced where it doubled the time and calorie burn of a workout - but it seemed more an issue of what Garmin sent than what MFP did with it.

So is the workout synced from MMW the correct time, and calories is doubled?

Or do you mean the Fitbit calorie burn seems high, and then you think it's adding in the workout too?

What are some figures to work with, or screen shot showing the problem.

smc92079

@heybales I'm sorry I wasn't more specific. Let me see if I can describe what I'm seeing more clearly.

I finished my walk yesterday. 2.33 miles in just under 43 minutes. MMW said that I burned 407 calories. When I logged into MFP app after my walk, I saw that it was crediting me with both the 407 calories from MMW and 328 calorie adjustment from FitBit for a total of 735 additional calories for the day. This seemed to be "double counting" the same exercise.

When I looked at MFP on my computer, it was only showing the 328 calories from the FitBit adjustment as additional calories. When I look at my exercise diary (on computer) it shows a total of 735 calories burned for the day but doesn't credit them both as additional calories. It also does not show the walking activity, where on other days, the walking activity does show up.

So, I'm trying to figure out if I should only be counting a portion of the calories as actually burned. Does that make more sense?

SezxyStef

don't sync MMW with MFP easy enough.

I use MMF (mapmyfitness) for the same reason...just to track distance and time during the walk so I don't bother syncing it with anything and rely on my fitbit only.

smc92079

@SezxyStef Thank you. I think I'll just do that to alleviate the issue.

heybales

It could be just a visual issue - but you likely have a bug.

What should be happening is the MMW comes across as a workout of say 407 calories to MFP.

That Fitbit adjustment is NOT the workout - it is the difference between Fitbit total burn and MFP estimated total burn - that's it.
Could be some exercise, none, extra daily, whatever - it's all mixed together.

Fitbit could have seen the exact same 407 calories - only way to know is go create an Activity Record using the Start/Stop time of MMW and see what it came up with.

But - the synced workout from MMW to MFP should have then synced over to Fitbit as a workout - and replaced whatever it came up with.

Then Fitbit sends this new daily burn (if it is different) back to MFP to do math with.

Fitbit only does replacement, not addition. Only way to get doubling is if time zone is off between workouts and the workout was under 1 hour.

So MFP math is -
Fitbit daily burn - MFP estimated daily burn - exercise calories = adjustment

Eating goal + exercise calories + adjustment = new eating goal.

So even though both the workout and the adjustment show up in the list - in actuality there is no doubling.

It sounds like you are saying there was no subtraction of the exercise calories in first calculation - so the adjustment had them, and MFP had them as workout.

Yes - that is doubling in the eating goal then.