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Activity Trackers

Weightlossdude53
Weightlossdude53 Posts: 70 Member
edited March 4 in Fitness and Exercise
I was thinking if buying an activity tracker (like Fitbit). Who uses them?. Which one(s)!work with MFP?

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  • just4nessa
    just4nessa Posts: 459 Member
    I have the Fitbit One and I love it. It can be linked to your MFP account. I also use a Polar HRM for cardio workouts since the Fitbit does not measure heartrate. In the year that I've had it, my Fitbit reads for cardio seem to have gotten closer to my HRM reads so I trust that it's doing it's job fairly accurately.
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    Which one(s)!work with MFP?
    Click APPS on the blue menu bar above to see things that interact with MFP. :smile:
  • lakestral
    lakestral Posts: 2 Member
    I have this program and the fitbit app. They don't seem to interact as I had hoped. It doesn't seem to count the calories correctly, and only uses the calories burned after you hit 10,000 steps for the day. So annoying.
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    I have this program and the fitbit app. They don't seem to interact as I had hoped. It doesn't seem to count the calories correctly, and only uses the calories burned after you hit 10,000 steps for the day. So annoying.
    That's not really how Fitbit and MFP interact, though with your settings it might be that you don't earn a 'positive adjustment' to your calories based on Fitbit's estimates until you hit about that much activity. But it's all under your control. Change your MFP setting to sedentary and you'll earn Fitbit adjustments sooner, but you'll have fewer 'base MFP calories' to start with, too.
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