Steps calorie adjustment disappearing when manual exercise is entered

hyacinmobile
hyacinmobile Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I've named this after one of the many, many other threads I've seen with this exact same problem ...

Setup - MFP, Withings Scale, Polar HRM

By about midday I've got, say, 4000 steps and a nice 100 calorie credit in MFP via Withings (via Google Fit) for my steps ...

Then I do say, 20 minutes of circuit training and track that with my Polar HRM ... Now MFP won't talk directly to Polar Beat (or even pull the damn data from Google Fit which DOES talk to Polar Beat and IS linked to MFP) so I copy all the data over manually ... 20 minutes circuit training, 150 cals burned, great!

But wait, what? My 4000 steps that gained me an additional 100 calories *before* I busted my butt circuit training now drops to zero calories??!?

My understanding is that this is to avoid some double counting? Is that correct? The steps have NOTHING to do with the calories burned during the circuit training, so why are they now worthless?

Could we please get some option when putting in manual exercise to not discount what has already been automatically counted?

Also, any plans to work with Polar Beat? Or at least pull workout data from Google Fit or something so Polar HRM users aren't always having to manually add it? (and thus void all the steps they've taken that day)


Thanks!!

Rob

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  • SueInAz
    SueInAz Posts: 6,592 Member
    I log all of my workouts in my Fitbit app because Fitbit does the same thing. Apparently, it's using it's own calorie calculation of how much you burned so if you aren't entering the workout in there it's not accounting for it and will subtract the extra calories it gave you.

    Long story short, I find things work to my satisfaction if I enter food into MFP and exercises into Fitbit.
  • jccole283
    jccole283 Posts: 1 Member
    hey Rob did you ever figure this out? I'm wondering the same thing.
  • scolaris
    scolaris Posts: 2,145 Member
    Yes this happens to me. I usually have very high step totals, then I walk to the y for a yoga class & log it, with the time noted so there's no danger of double dipping, and bam! I've lost a big chunk of my step count calories. Annoying! So lots of times I just don't log the small burn workouts. And I guess it doesn't matter if I'm losing weight & feeling good. But when I get to the point where I'm maintaining on a TDEE I'm going to want all this information.
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