MyFitnessPal + Fitbit Tracker - Ultimate Duo

miahrana1986
miahrana1986 Posts: 3 Member
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Hi All,

I needed another motivation to get myself up and going again so i brought the Fitbit Tracker which tracks everything u do and its in sync with my fitness pall ????

I've started again, and I've put on a lot of weight. Please feel free to add me, its boring without the competition!!!

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  • kcb0308
    kcb0308 Posts: 73 Member
    I haven't figured out how to add friends on Fitbit yet...
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    To add a Fitbit friend, you need his or her e-mail address. (Or you must already be Facebook friends.) So one of you can send a message via MFP to the other and include your e-mail address.

    Edited to add links to the Fitbit FAQ:

    How do I connect with my friends on Fitbit?
    https://help.fitbit.com/customer/portal/articles/275564-how-do-i-connect-with-my-friends-on-fitbit-

    Managing friends using the Fitbit app for iOS
    https://help.fitbit.com/customer/portal/articles/1108293

    Managing friends using the Fitbit app for Android
    https://help.fitbit.com/customer/portal/articles/1120251
  • miahrana1986
    miahrana1986 Posts: 3 Member
    They say to use MyFitnessPal with Fitbit,
    Once u sync them together then u use MFP only and update all the records on MFP only as it had a bigger database etc.

    Thats what I'm going to do
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    I'm going to copy & paste something I wrote in another thread:
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1156172-thinking-about-purchasing-a-fitbit?page=2

    YMMV. It took me a lot of trial & error to figure out what worked best for me. Maybe you'll find something in it that helps you:
    I log all my food & drink (including water) in MFP, and all exercise and activity with the activity tracker. MFP sends aggregate meal data to the tracker. The tracker sends my TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) to MFP.

    When you set up your MFP account, you specified an activity level: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided MFP used your answer, plus your age, sex & height, to estimate how many calories you burn every day (your TDEE). Then you set your weight-loss goal, and MFP subtracted the appropriate deficit to calculate your daily calorie goal.

    Once you link an activity tracker to your MFP account (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/apps/show/30 or via the "Apps" tab at the top of every page), you start getting calorie adjustments. If your tracker says you burned more calories than MFP estimated, you get a positive adjustment (meaning more calories to eat). If you enable negative calorie adjustments and you burn less than the MFP estimate, you will lose calories. (But negative calorie adjustments will never drop your daily calories below 1,200.)

    I wasn't losing much weight when I got my first activity tracker. At first, the adjustments didn't seem very accurate. But they got better, almost as if the system was "learning" my routine. It took a lot of trial & error to find the settings that worked best for me. But then everything clicked. I changed my MFP settings from sedentary to lightly active (even though I have a desk job), and now my adjustments are pretty minimal. And I'm losing!

    I find my daily step goal really motivating. If I get home at night and see I'm thisclose to making goal, I'll walk around the block. A little bit more every day really adds up.

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