Technical Question

dporter1183

When you wear a Fitbit and do a strenuous exercise... obviously the Fitbit picks up your Steps and syncs to the MFP app... but should you also log your exercise? Let’s say boxing or something like that? Because that burns more than just walking.

Or is that “double dipping” so to speak by getting credit for calories burned for both your steps and exercise that in at least some portion occurred at the same time?

JeromeBarry1

I do not have a fitbit, but when I've read other discussions of it it's made me think that no, you don't log boxing if your fitbit is synced to mfp. You can find more, and more accurate, answers with a properly detailed "Search".

T1DCarnivoreRunner

It is optional. You will notice that when you log exercise now, it is going to ask for a start time and duration. This is to adjust the Fitbit data for that time period.

But it replaces the Fitbit data with the calories from the MFP database for that exercise... I'm not convinced this is more accurate than Fitbit. In fact, I would suggest Fitbit to be more correct - particularly if you have a model with a HRM that you turned on for the activity.

ETA: There is a Fitbit group here: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users

@heybales comes to mind as being most familiar with the technical side. I switched to Garmin more than a year ago, and so much has changed during that time.

kimny72

You can log the exercise in Fitbit. Fitbit will only credit you with the additional calories from the exercise you logged, above and beyond the steps calories it already gave you.

I always log exercise in Fitbit only and food in MFP only, and let the negative adjustment from Fitbit bring everything together. Not sure if that's the only way, but it works for me.

Momepro

When I use Google Fit, it stops counting individual steps while I'm tracking an exercise.But if I add one later, I have to manually delete steps from that time period. I'd guess Fitbit has similar system.