Double Tracking

RedSassyPants

I track all of my food on MFP.
I use a Heart Rate Monitor for my exercise.
It comes with a tracking app so I tend to forget record it here.
Since I rarely eat those calories, I don't think about it.
However, for some reason I keep feeling like my tracking is not complete

Do you see any pros in keeping everything in one place.
or should I just tell my brain to chill out and keep things the way they are

0ysterboy

I track my exercise here but learned a long time ago from WW to not eat my AP. Mostly, I track my exercise just to document the work and the MFP tracker is as good as any since the demise of Prez Challenge. Honestly, the Garmin app is the better tracker. So, I guess my answer is to tell your brain to chill out.

Out_of_Bubblegum

I track with my HRM, but I have it set up to sync with MFP - so that way I keep a total of everything in MFP. For me, that works best as I like to look at my weekly report and compare it to my WL to see how well I'm doing overall.

I have learned that the closer I track my calories and the more regularly I work out, the better my weekly report looks... and for some strange reason, these good looking reports seem to correspond with better weigh in numbers too....

For me, it's an extra incentive to see that good report at the end of the week, and knowing that if I do see good numbers there, I'm very likely to see a drop on the scale too.

0ysterboy

Ya know, this may be a good strategy. I'm going to link my garmin with MFP.

myallforjcbill

I record all my activity in Garmin and it synchs to MFP automatically. The event descriptions aren't correct. Anything from my Garmin watch will show as a run, from my fitness band as a walk. The manual entries for lap swimming come over correctly. I do find it easier to just go to Garmin and see everything, it is filterable and exportable if I am over-caffeinated

88olds

I've never tracked exercise. Well, not for long. I started WW before all the gadgets.

An advantage I had was that I was exercising regularly when I started. So I started out adding food because of points I earned working out.

But I soon had to admit to myself that my workouts never got above midrange intensity.
And the calculations were just too imprecise. So I just dropped the whole issue.

Unless you are involved in real training, as opposed to exercise, your WL will be almost all about intake.

imastar2

I really get it about double tracking. For awhile I double tracked on WW and MFP. I have given up on tracking on WW but haven't discontinued paying for it yet. It is very time consuming and tried to keep it going for awhile just too much.

Haven't tracked exercise on two devices.

0ysterboy

"Unless you are involved in real training, as opposed to exercise, your WL will be almost all about intake."

Yep, the gains in the gym rarely overlap with gains in the kitchen. I remember a fellow triathlon enthusiast saying "Jeez, if exercise directly resulted in weight loss I'd be at birth weight by now".

podkey

Gym àctivity or anything less than an hour and a half (90') I don't eat extra in general. I do eat some extra for .long bike rides or hikes beyond that point.

RedSassyPants

Thanks for the input!
I am going to tell my brain to CHILL OUT
If I do something crazy like teach 4 classes in one day, I will track it.