FAQ - Syncing, logging food & exercise, calorie adjustments, activity levels, accuracy
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lemonychild wrote: »so lame!!!!
Sorry what is lame?0 -
I tried to connect mapmyrun today and it won't connect either . Sad really. A feature isn't one if it won't work....and I'm not generally a negative guy.0
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Yep, same issue Charge not syncing with MFP. Tried disconnecting app from MFP, revoking access in Fitbit, nothing works...0
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Mines (charge hr) not syncing either. I thought it was only me.0
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MInes not syncing with mfp either. Added exercise, and done loads of steps, but no exercise adjustment... Glad its not just me...0
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So I see mfp is having issues syncing once again. I sure hope this issue is resolved quickly.0
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I'm not able to sync my charge hr either.0
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It's times like this when you realise how much you come to take it forgranted when it's working!0
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So, I'm using a Charge HR. I log my food in MFP and log my exercise in Fitbit.
Two questions.
1. I got on the treadmill and pressed the button to record the workout. Treadmill gave me summary that says I burned 331 calories. My activity log says I burned 423 calories. Go with the activity log?
2. I'm going to start using the weight machines at the gym. I understand that if I log "weights" on Fitbit I'll get a calorie estimate that will sync with MFP. If I use the MFP exercise diary to log the weight/reps info, will that create a double entry on Fitbit?
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Woo hoo it's syncing again0
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Confirmed that exercise is sync'ing in MFP. However, I'm not getting Food from MFP into FitBit.0
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BTW, using Charge HR.0
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Did it happen automatically or did you do something for it to sync again??0
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Syncing yaaaay!0
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@songbird13291 : Go with the Fitbit estimate. It has way better information about you than the treadmill. For weights, I'm not as sure, but I think that if you log things in the MFP Strength Training section, it won't affect anything. Try it - you can always go back and delete.1
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The Sync from MFP to FitBit for Food appears to be working for me now! Yaay!
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@songbird13291 : Go with the Fitbit estimate. It has way better information about you than the treadmill. For weights, I'm not as sure, but I think that if you log things in the MFP Strength Training section, it won't affect anything. Try it - you can always go back and delete.
thanks.
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Has anyone changed the food log settings in Fitbit? I did and now aren't sure if I should have. I picked the same deficit as MFP (250 cals a day), and chose sedentary in Fitbit for this.
Not sure if I should have set it to what MFP gives me per day? Or left it alone.0 -
@melissa112: You did it right. Just pick the same deficit as MFP. Since Fitbit has a different way of determining the number of calories you have to eat, you don't set that. Just go by MFP. And, the "Sedentary" setting in Fitbit is different than the "Sedentary" activity level in MFP. It doesn't make any difference to how many calories Fitbit ultimately decides you can have for the day, just how many it estimates you have remaining. Your actual activity level determines how many calories you are allotted at the end of the day.0
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@melissa112: You did it right. Just pick the same deficit as MFP. Since Fitbit has a different way of determining the number of calories you have to eat, you don't set that. Just go by MFP. And, the "Sedentary" setting in Fitbit is different than the "Sedentary" activity level in MFP. It doesn't make any difference to how many calories Fitbit ultimately decides you can have for the day, just how many it estimates you have remaining. Your actual activity level determines how many calories you are allotted at the end of the day.
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So this in the FAQ is not telling me not to set the Fitbit deficit goal? Does everyone set the deficit in Fitbit too?
"Why does MFP have a different eating goal than Fitbit's?
So even if you have both sites setup for same 500 cal deficit say, they will not match for eating goal until the day is finished. While the day is progressing, they use different methods, more on that later.
Recommend don't follow 2 roads to same destination, use MFP for food and eating goals, use Fitbit for daily movement goals and exercise logging."0 -
melissa112 wrote: »@melissa112: You did it right. Just pick the same deficit as MFP. Since Fitbit has a different way of determining the number of calories you have to eat, you don't set that. Just go by MFP. And, the "Sedentary" setting in Fitbit is different than the "Sedentary" activity level in MFP. It doesn't make any difference to how many calories Fitbit ultimately decides you can have for the day, just how many it estimates you have remaining. Your actual activity level determines how many calories you are allotted at the end of the day.
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So this in the FAQ is not telling me not to set the Fitbit deficit goal? Does everyone set the deficit in Fitbit too?
"Why does MFP have a different eating goal than Fitbit's?
So even if you have both sites setup for same 500 cal deficit say, they will not match for eating goal until the day is finished. While the day is progressing, they use different methods, more on that later.
Recommend don't follow 2 roads to same destination, use MFP for food and eating goals, use Fitbit for daily movement goals and exercise logging."
No, you SHOULD set the Fitbit deficit goal, for consistency. But you have less control over the eating goal than you have in MFP. In MFP, you enter your stats - height, weight, age, gender - and your activity level and MFP sets your eating goal (or, you can set it manually, I think, but that's a completely separate discussion). So, you can affect your eating goal by picking a different activity level. You can't do that in Fitbit. In Fitbit you can choose Sedentary - where it assumes you're going to be very inactive for the rest of the day - or Personalized - where it uses your activity history to predict how active you're going to be - but there isn't a "this is my normal daily activity level" setting. As a result, the "calories remaining" for the day never match between MFP and Fitbit until the end of the day, when your total calorie burn for the day is sent over from Fitbit to MFP. That's why the "don't follow 2 roads to the same destination" advice is given. Just use MFP, because it's generally easier to use for meal planning. Fitbit either starts the day really, really low (Sedentary setting) or possibly way too high (Personalized setting).0 -
melissa112 wrote: »@melissa112: You did it right. Just pick the same deficit as MFP. Since Fitbit has a different way of determining the number of calories you have to eat, you don't set that. Just go by MFP. And, the "Sedentary" setting in Fitbit is different than the "Sedentary" activity level in MFP. It doesn't make any difference to how many calories Fitbit ultimately decides you can have for the day, just how many it estimates you have remaining. Your actual activity level determines how many calories you are allotted at the end of the day.
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So this in the FAQ is not telling me not to set the Fitbit deficit goal? Does everyone set the deficit in Fitbit too?
"Why does MFP have a different eating goal than Fitbit's?
So even if you have both sites setup for same 500 cal deficit say, they will not match for eating goal until the day is finished. While the day is progressing, they use different methods, more on that later.
Recommend don't follow 2 roads to same destination, use MFP for food and eating goals, use Fitbit for daily movement goals and exercise logging."
No, you SHOULD set the Fitbit deficit goal, for consistency. But you have less control over the eating goal than you have in MFP. In MFP, you enter your stats - height, weight, age, gender - and your activity level and MFP sets your eating goal (or, you can set it manually, I think, but that's a completely separate discussion). So, you can affect your eating goal by picking a different activity level. You can't do that in Fitbit. In Fitbit you can choose Sedentary - where it assumes you're going to be very inactive for the rest of the day - or Personalized - where it uses your activity history to predict how active you're going to be - but there isn't a "this is my normal daily activity level" setting. As a result, the "calories remaining" for the day never match between MFP and Fitbit until the end of the day, when your total calorie burn for the day is sent over from Fitbit to MFP. That's why the "don't follow 2 roads to the same destination" advice is given. Just use MFP, because it's generally easier to use for meal planning. Fitbit either starts the day really, really low (Sedentary setting) or possibly way too high (Personalized setting).
HI
Thanks for the reply. I've already set the Fitbit to one or the other (Personal, Sedentary). Now I can't change it to just nothing! I've set the deficit the same as MFP, but not sure how to get rid of the personal or sedentary option,0 -
You can't get rid of the personal or sedentary option, I don't think. It's one or the other, once you've chosen a food plan. But, you can ignore that tile, or just take it off your dashboard. I keep the Food Plan tile on my dashboard even though I go by MFP for eating, but not the Calories in vs. Calories out tile. That one is pretty useless as far as I'm concerned.0
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Hey everyone!! The last few days I noticed that my aria scale has stopped syncing my weight and it's pulling in my husbands instead. I have looked at both fitbit and MFP to see if there is some kind of setting to tell it to pull mine again but I can't find anything. I've disconnected and reinstalled, still didn't fix it. Any suggestions? Am I the only one having this issue?0
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I killed my iphone by dropping it in the toilet.
I tried using my work phone today to sync my fitbit but it won't work. Its a windows phone and I can't even get MFP to work on it. So annoyed. I now have to wait until I get home to sync my fitbit with my Laptop. #firstworldproblems0 -
Windows phone app store doesn't come up with MFP. It does appear that fitbit is in there. Since MS now has its own fitness band and apps to go with that I doubt MFP app for Windows phone with be a priority for them.0
