I was playing around with the exercise page on the web (not in the app) tonight, and may have stumbled upon a work-around to use until MFP figures out what the real problem is. It seems to be working for me tonight... it could change again tomorrow.

As you may have read, if you want Fitbit to re-sync to MFP after you delete an erroneous fitbit burn, you can manually enter a Cardiovascular activity and then refresh the page and fitbit resyncs. So I was doing this to see what would happen both to the fitbit calorie adjustment and to the MFP calories burned number, which for me was different every day even though it should be the same. When I deleted the wrong fitbit adjustment and enter 1 minute slow walking with a 4 calorie burn and then refresh the page, initially the new fitbit sync seems right. But if I then delete the manually entered cardio, the fitbit number changes to something very wrong (for example, from +367 to -4 calories). However, and here is the strange part, if I leave the fake cardio in, the fitbit number seems stable on the right number and my MFP calories burned stays the same (as it should, but wasn't previously). I did this for each day through this past weekend and for now they all look right.

This was at the end of the day each time, so I don't know how or if it would work if you did it first thing in the morning and wanted updates all day long (as we longtime users are accustomed to). I'll post tomorrow if the numbers magically change back to wrong overnight.

Lourdesong wrote: »

In the IOS app under the "more" menu, I went to "steps" and saw Fitbit was not selected, instead "don't track steps" was selected. So, I changed it to track steps with Fitbit, and the adjustments have been correct for about 1/2 hour now. MFP burn number has stayed the same at 1770 at every sync.

In my food diary I also now have a pretty Fitbit icon that displays my step count now.

Now after I post this, I'll check it again and discover it's not syncing correctly again, just watch...:)

Anyway, check and see if MFP is set to track your steps with fitbit or not.

Yay this worked for me! Somehow the settings were not showing the FitBit as the step tracker. I have no idea how that got changed. So far, so good with my numbers and I like the added Step information under my calorie totals. That's new, right?

Thanks for the info. :-)

heather_hearts_travel wrote: »

I'm with y'all. It's really demotivating when FitBit says I have a 489 calorie burn workout, and when it hits MFP... 76. No way.

You have a misunderstanding about how this works.

That adjustment is NOT supposed to equal your workout on Fitbit calorie burn.

Please read the FAQ in stickies for understanding how it's supposed to work - you may not even have the bug unless you have confirmed several of the tell-tale signs.

But numbers that appear funny isn't one of the signs - you must understand how it works to decide that.

Because you could easily have a big workout and little activity and get no adjustment.
You could have no workout and big activity and have a big adjustment.

Workout =/= adjustment in other words.

heybales wrote: »

In the scheme of things - when the MFP Calories Burned increases and makes the adjustment to the Fitbit Calories Burned smaller - it's a wash.

No, it isn't. Because my Net Calories do not increase when the MFP Calories Burned increases. When things are working correctly, as they had for the last 10 months that I've been using both sites, the MFP Calories burned number stays the same ALL DAY EVERY DAY unless my weight or goals change. The Fitbit adjustment then is added or subtracted from that to get my net calories available for the day. But when on my Home and Food Diary pages the Calories allowed and net calories aren't changing but on the Exercise adjustment page the MFP calories burned changes and THAT results in my fitbit adjustment becoming negative when I've really got more food available to eat... that is wrong, and that is what is happening. Like this:

WilsonFilson wrote: »

I was about to post here that mine was behaving today, and then it did this:

These were snapped literally five minutes apart.

So this person went from having an 1100 calorie positive adjustment to having less than 200 in five minutes. That is NOT a wash. This is what is happening. The MFP calories burned number is changing in ways that we can't predict and that it did NOT used to do, and it is messing with our net calories in unpredictable ways.

By the way, for anyone who was hoping my "work-around" from last night might work... this morning mine is back to being erratic again, so apparently it does NOT help. Sorry.

nyssadreams wrote: »

Lourdesong wrote: »

In the IOS app under the "more" menu, I went to "steps" and saw Fitbit was not selected, instead "don't track steps" was selected. So, I changed it to track steps with Fitbit, and the adjustments have been correct for about 1/2 hour now. MFP burn number has stayed the same at 1770 at every sync.

In my food diary I also now have a pretty Fitbit icon that displays my step count now.

Now after I post this, I'll check it again and discover it's not syncing correctly again, just watch...:)

Anyway, check and see if MFP is set to track your steps with fitbit or not.

Yay this worked for me! Somehow the settings were not showing the FitBit as the step tracker. I have no idea how that got changed. So far, so good with my numbers and I like the added Step information under my calorie totals. That's new, right?

Thanks for the info. :-)

I did this too! I almost never use the app -- I tend to use the website -- so I never even though to check. But I saw this post and went to the app and made the change, and so far it seems to have fixed the problem for me.

If any of the mods or devs are reading this, this could provide a clue to help them troubleshoot or resolve the issue, perhaps?

I've disconnected fitbit and MFP and I'm just putting in calories burned from Fitbit manually. Yesterday, fitbit recorded a 880 calorie workout. MFP only added 65 calories despite being set to sedentary. It's completely broken and until its fixed, I'm not linking the two.

Here's the screenshot to demonstrate the bug (taken seconds apart):



Being in maintenance mode, my daily deficit should be zero, so burned = eaten

clevelandkat40 wrote: »

This worked for me as well. I hardly ever use the app either, but as soon as I changed the Steps setting, I came back and refreshed my home page, and the adjustment was what I expected it to be. Now, to see if it actually sticks, or if it gets messed up again. Somehow I don't have high hopes.

I emailed the support team about this, letting them know that I changed this setting and it seems to be working for a few days now. They're going to investigate further using this piece of information as a possible clue as to what's causing the bug. Meanwhile, I'd suggest that others with the same problem try this as a potential workaround.

Again, I have no idea if it'll stick. But it's been a few days and so far, so good.

heybales wrote: »

I'm just curious when you see the higher dynamic MFP Calories burned - has your NET eating goal been increased too and your deficit is still in place?.

No. It increases the MFP Calories burned (the fitbit calories burned stays the same), thereby decreasing the "Fitbit calorie adjustment" and thereby incorrectly displaying the number of calories left in the day.

This is interesting. in the last few minutes, the adjustments of the MFP Calories burned number are getting closer and closer to the fitbit calories burned number. Its like there is something in their software which is changing the MFP calories burned to account for the fitbit input. This is software programming gone haywire. Or some developer who has no idea who it is supposed to work.



So then this is the effect it has on my calories left for the day: (There should be like a 1000 calorie exercise adjustment):