Fitbit one and mfp stolen walk cals

babyluthi

MFP has made my morning walk earned cals and made it 0 after I added gardening minutes.. I am talking really hard slog gardening, not light weed pulling.

I feel robbed!
I need them both, not one or other.
Any help appreciated.

heybales

When you manually log a workout on MFP when synced with activity tracker like Fitbit, the calories for that chunk of time are sent to the tracker account.

A new increased total daily burned is sent back to MFP with a new higher total.

All MFP is doing is taking Fitbits daily burn minus it's estimate of daily burn with no exercise (so removed), and figuring an adjustment to correct itself.

That adjustment prior to workout logged was NOT your walk, it was the difference between the 2.
Likely some of the walk, likely some increased activity level burn too.

You can have a big adjustment and no workouts by being more active than you have MFP set for.
You can have no adjustment and a big workout by being so tired you are less active rest the day.

Perhaps that's what occurred after walk and heavy gardening.
Or that workout time replaced an already normally active time slot - so not really an increase in the day.

Or you checked MFP too fast, and Fitbit hadn't been updated yet, so it then sent over a new daily burn.

Wait about an hour and see then.

Click on the Adjustment for the details of the info MFP is working with.

Your Fitbit would have already logged the gardening BTW - perhaps you synced over your manual workout with less calories than Fitbit already had - causing a decrease in daily total.

got2bjb

Im glad im not the only one having this issue. All exercises added in my fitbit subtracted the calories I worked off so not only is it not keeping track of steps on this app but its subtracting any exercise calories burned as well

babyluthi

Thanks for your reply. I logged the gardening on mfp not fitbit.
Last time I logged exercise on the fitbit site it gave me 0 calories for my morning speedwalk and the later cardio. 0 extra calories for the entire day on mfp. I stopped logging any extra exercise after that. Yesterday I thought I'd try logging it on mfp instead. That is when the fitbit numbers disappeared. I don't use fitbit for anything but steps.
I can't grasp your post. I really want to. I have a mind block or something😐

heybales

These are not issues - they are misunderstandings on how it works - and how your numbers end up the same in the end anyway.

I know you logged the gardening on MFP - hence my explanation. Might read it again based on that fact I knew what you were talking about.
MFP never had your walk logged as exercise.

It had the difference between Fitbit actual & MFP expected logged.

That was NOT just calories from the walk. In theory it could end up being exactly the same as Fitbit estimated and shows for the workout, but the odds are greatly against it.

Let's pretend mid-day - so 12 hrs left. You synced Fitbit, which said you burned 1200 calories which included a walk of 200 calories.
Let's say MFP set to sedentary expects you to burn 2000 daily, and you have 500 deficit for base eating goal 1500.

Fitbit sends 1200.
MFP expects the other 12 hours of day to be 1000 (2000/2).

Fitbit so far 1200 + 1000 MFP estimated rest of day = 2200 daily projection.

Fitbit projection 2200 - MFP expected 2000 = 200 calorie adjustment.

base eating goal 1500 + 200 adj = 1700 new eating goal. Still 500 cal deficit.


Let's say right at time of sync you created a workout on MFP of that 200 calories with correct time/duration stamp.
That's sent to Fitbit and replaces what it had - which in this case is exactly the same.

Projected 2200 - 2000 MFP - 200 workout MFP knows about = 0 adjustment

base eating goal 1500 + 0 adj + 200 workout = 1700 eating goal. Same deficit.


Let's say you entered a workout on MFP with more accurate calorie burn info of 300.
Fitbit receives and replaces (it's a replace only system).

Projected 2300 - 2000 MFP - 300 workout = 0 adjustment
1500 + 0 + 300 workout = 1800 eating goal. 500 deficit.


There's no issue going on. The way MFP handles the math is correct.

Only if you screw up and manually enter a workout on MFP for wrong time or calorie burn and replace more accurate info on Fitbit (hence the reason to NOT log workouts on MFP just because you want to see them here), changing it's daily calorie burn figure that is sent back to MFP.


MFP knows about the calories from your workout - either because they are contained within the daily calories sent by Fitbit and therefore accounted for, or because it knows about the workout in which case it must subtract it as I've shown above.


You may think you aren't using the Fitbit for anything but steps - but that is actually nothing but a figure. Fitbit sends calorie info.

Again - press on that adjustment until it shows the details and see what they are.

babyluthi

Thank you so much😄

got2bjb

Mine is not logging steps

heybales

got2bjb wrote: »

Mine is not logging steps

Fitbit's not logging steps?

Or MFP isn't displaying the steps from a good sync from Fitbit?

You can go to the MFP Apps section and it shows Fitbit is setup for sync?

Does food meal totals go over to Fitbit for display?

On your MFP app do you have in settings Step Source Fitbit selected after confirming the sync is done?