sandishmily wrote: »

Thanks heybales,
I enter both manually ( because i drive school bus and my stats go wacky when i dive the bus, so i enter "driving" for the duration of my drive to cancel out crazy amounts of steps and floors etc. ) i do that on my phone under track your exercise - the plus sign on the top right - previous exercise - and then i enter in the start time and duration. I am on a galaxy 3. I also hold in the button on my charge hr to start a run and again when I'm finished. Both of these methods show my activities as logged twice under the track your exercise banner on my phone. Sorry i can't figure out how to get a picture on here. Hope that makes sense.

Look carefully at the full line of the 2 entries, one likely has a slightly different symbol showing it is an activity record, or one line is missing steps, that's the manual entry.
Activity records are snapshots of existing stats for that chunk of time FROM the daily stats when it was done, NOT added TO the daily stats.
Workouts logged manually replace daily stats, but unless walking/running, there is no steps along with it.

You are NOT getting double logged.
Check your web account for better view perhaps to assure yourself, and/or take a pic of the screen to see.

Here's mine above in a row. Notice the differences, not just between the numbers, but the other items.
Activity records manually logged don't allow seconds, workouts manually logged do.
Activity records have stop watch symbol, and ability to edit.
Workouts have view details, but no edit (really annoying when you missed the am/pm).

Correct on that process for lifting weights.

Hopefully you were just testing the process on your run - because you would never manually log the exact same stats as the Fitbit already came up with, no need.

Because those are not the same types of records - notice the different symbol, and scroll up the messages here to my example on biking and running where I changed the values that could be.

One is the activity record from the device button push. It's a snapshot of the stats that Fitbit came up with that were included in your daily time. That's the one you could edit there.
You can also manually create that activity record if you forgot the button push, but still wanted to see what Fitbit came up with.

The other is the manual workout you logged that you can't edit, only delete. That replaced the stats for that chunk of time in the daily stats. The steps is calculated from your stride length state and the distance you entered, which appears you got more exact than Fitbit saw.
But the activity record is snapshot and still shows the old data in my cases. Your daily stats for that chunk of time were actually replaced by your manually logged workout.
I'm not sure if because of different device, or different order you did it, but your activity record seems to partially reflect the calories from the manually logged workout, perhaps Fitbit realizes you did something unneeded and is trying to help keep it decently accurate.

So biggest thing to not confuse yourself - do NOT manually log a step-based workout, unless you have much better stats for the activity.
And if you do, then the activity record snapshot is really worthless of what Fitbit saw, because you are updating it anyway, so delete the activity record.

So in your example, if treadmill said you did 1.57 miles, but Fitbit only saw 1.5 (that's still mighty close and worth leaving alone unless you had good incline and higher calorie burn), you should delete the 1.5 activity record.

joan4440 wrote: »

Does anyone know why my Fitbit one does not sync to my computer at times? To get it to sync, I have to disconnect then reconnect again.

The general topics rather than the stickies are the place for questions on current issues, since they'll be seen there. Here you have to purposely look. I would include though what you mean by disconnect and reconnect again. The receiver dongle, the Fitbit app, ect?

Now an activity record is merely a snapshot of whatever stats Fitbit came up with for that chunk of time.
You can name an activity record whatever you want.
But was that really what you manually created?
Did it have a place for notes and did you enter start and end time, or start and duration time and calorie burn?
The former is activity record.
The latter is workout activity.
Yes - very poor choices of words by Fitbit - which they'd improve them, too close for doing totally different things.

Weights entry, where Fitbit estimates the calorie burn, is for 5 - 15 reps with weight heavy enough to be a real challenge, with sets and rests of 2-4 min between.

If doing more reps, circuit training would be better entry, even if just a few lifts you were doing. 15 and over reps, rests usually 1 min or less between sets.

And correct to manually log those as FAQ mentions why.

No need to log the aerobics. Create an activity record if you want to view the stats for later review and comparison though. always useful to track progress.
Since HR based, it might be more accurate than prior step based you saw. And that means bigger calorie burn.

No, the database or Fitbit has no further info on that. That info came from reading the studies the database is based on for those entries.

That was correct way to do the workout activity - let Fitbit estimate calories for the stuff where HR won't be as accurate.
Activity button still useful here though, just to get the start and end times logged so you can use them later on manual workout entry, I'd even keep the activity record though the calories is wrong, because looking at HR info later can be useful.
Are you able to push harder and get HR up higher down the road in comparison, or did a hard workout seem hard because of weight, or HR didn't go as high, so merely tired.

The database entry is indeed important, Weights, Circuit Training, Calisthentics (usually body weight, more reps, less rest).

bassclefs wrote: »

Sigh. I'm confused.
I've been using MFP for 5 years now and have used it to lose and maintain weight successfully.
Game changers ... 1) breastfeeding 2) trying to GAIN weight 3) I bought a fitbit (which I totally LOVE).

Okay. So here are my problems, can anyone help?

I have my MFP set to sedentary, gain 1lb a week (I want to gain .5lbs a week, but to account for the extra 500 calories I burn breastfeeding I am setting it to 1lbs).

Today I ran 12km in 58 minutes (roughly 4:51/km), this equates to a 711 calorie burn according to my Garmin Forerunner. I did NOT enter this in MFP, letting the fitbit register it.

My fitbit did account for the steps and intensity, however, according to MFP I have only earned back 353 calories?
Should I not have earned back far more than that by now?
I am unable to sync my fitbit until tomorrow (I am at work), perhaps it is waiting for the final sync up to estimate more calories?

Also, is there a way to check what my fitbit will predict my daily calories to be, as my BMR on MFP is set to 2090 calories.

In general, I'm just confused about settings to make my MFP calorie count accurate so that I can GAIN weight - I don't want to suddenly end the days with a deficit when I am able to sync!

If you believe the milk production really causes an increased daily burn of 500, then setting the goal to gain 1 lb weekly (which is 500 surplus), really means you break even at maintenance.
So no weight gain.

For the run - FAQ question 4 - Why doesn't my MFP Exercise Diary - Fitbit calorie adjustment equal my workout calorie burn?
Did Fitbit think you ran the more correct distance, and burn the better estimate of calories from the Garmin?
If it matched, great. If it didn't, then manually log it in MFP or Fitbit, doesn't matter if calorie burn is coming from more accurate estimate.
How do you know what Fitbit had as stats for that run - create a manual activity record before you manually log it, to see the snapshot of the stats. It may have been right on.

If it got sync of the run, rest of the day has it's estimate FAQ Section 2 - How does the Fitbit calorie adjustment work?

Who cares what Fitbit estimates the day's burn will be, you only be using MFP for eating goal, don't confuse yourself attempting to follow 2 roads to the same destination - they aren't next to each other.

Also, what setting on MFP do you think is BMR set to 2090?

To confirm if MFP has gaining weight estimate correct.

Look at Goals - calories burned from daily activity.
Is your eating goal 500 more than that?

Then when Fitbit stats are used to adjust daily burn, that will still be correct.

If you have MFP and Fitbit synced, then when a workout is manually added to MFP it goes over to Fitbit and replaces the Fitbit logged calorie burn.

But you have the same workout going straight to Fitbit too, doing the same thing.

Yes, bad news. Only to Fitbit or MFP, not both.