Fitbit exercise, burns & steps do not show up in your MFP newsfeed. Just post a status update.

Exercise logged in MFP overwrites your Fitbit burn during that time.

No it won't. But if you just want a status, just create a wall post - check out my profile for example.

missmariah18 wrote: »

I need help... ON my fitness pal I am not showing the calories burned from my run which I did by pressing and holding the button on my Charge HR. Seems like the fitbit should sync that over to MFP. Also my steps aren't correct on my fitness pal and the fitbit is showing me to have more calories to eat than MFP.. So confused please help me.

also I do not show extra calories I have gained back

First, if you haven't, read the FAQ. Here's a handy link: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy/p1

Your run will not show up as an exercise entry in MFP. MFP only gets steps and calories burned from Fitbit. It merely displays the step count - it doesn't actually do anything with it.

To see what it does with the calories burned number go to the exercise tab (web site) or diary (phone app) and look for the Fitbit Calorie adjustment entry. On the website, click the little 'i', on the phone app, touch the entry and then touch again. That will get you the math that MFP is using. It will also tell you when the last sync between MFP and Fitbit was. (If you don't see the Fitbit Calorie Adjustment then your accounts aren't linked.)

If your steps are way off, chances are good they haven't synced recently. You can try to "force" a sync by entering something (such as a food item or an exercise) in MFP (you can delete it after you've confirmed that the sync happened). If it has been excessively long, and forcing a sync doesn't work then you might need to do a disconnect/reconnect procedure (disconnect in MFP, revoke access in Fitbit, wait a while..... reconnect in MFP). Edit: Also, in the phone app, look under Steps to make sure it is set to use Fitbit for steps.

Fitbit may be showing that you have more calories to eat than MFP either because you have Fitbit set to the "personalized" setting in the Food Log tab (which is fine, if that works for you), because it hasn't synced since you entered food in MFP (see disconnect/reconnect above), or because your weight loss settings are different between the two programs. However, keep in mind that MFP and Fitbit use very different approaches to the calories remaining calculation and so they'll basically never agree until the end of the day (i.e midnight, not bedtime). I don't pay a lot of attention to the calories remaining in Fitbit. I use MFP for food, Fitbit for exercise.

Does that force MFP to sync with Fitbit or force the MFP phone app to sync with the MFP website? Or both? I don't use the phone app that much, so I tend to think in terms of how to get the web site to do things.

That's the phone app with your account.

MFP has record of what it last synced to Fitbit - and doesn't just sync if no changes. To much traffic. It doesn't take the responsibility to determine if something new on Fitbit.

Fitbit syncs over to MFP after your daily burn has gone up 100 (unless recently changed) or a device sync has updated a workout or such.

When MFP does sync something new over - it will get new daily burn and step data though (last time I tested).

But I have forced a Zip sync with computer and to Fitbit account before the calorie count went up by 100.
Fitbit showed the new higher amount - it did not sync over to MFP.

5 min later when the count was high enough to make 100 above the last shown received on MFP - fresh sync.