It has happened to me occasionally. I've never been able to find a pattern to figure out the cause. I look on MFP to see what the actual meal calorie count was, then go onto the Fitbit food page and delete the extras.

It's a pain, but I sometimes use the average calories in vs. calorie burned figures (on my Fitbit profile page) to compute the accuracy of my Fitbit (and/or food logging - any discrepancies between expected weight change and actual weight change could be due to errors in either), so I like to keep Fitbit's numbers accurate.

message4michelle wrote: »

I've had this issue as well. I often track all my meals first thing in the morning. It seems that whatever I add to MFP is also added to FB. But sometimes I delete things from MFT because I don't actually eat them, and I add other things in their place. The items I delete from MFP don't get removed from FB. At least I think that's what's happening...

That was my hypothesis at one point as well - that editing a previously entered meal was what caused it. Then, at some point I was able to conclusively prove that wasn't the case. A meal that I entered by just copying from a previous day, and that I didn't edit, ended up with multiple meal summaries in Fitbit, only one of which was correct.

883xlsportster wrote: »

DianeinCA wrote: »

I keep track of my food in MFP and my exercise in FB, and I have the two linked. Normally, the two talk together very well. Recently, however, Fitbit has been double-adding certain food totals, making it seem as though I've eaten hundreds (sometimes thousands) of calories over what I've entered into MFP. Anybody else seen this?

Just got mine. Charge HR. I did find if I made a edit on MFP I would get a double entry on FB. Just deleted it. When giving MFP permission to access FB it did say on the instruction page only to use MFP for logging both exercise and food to avoid problems?

MFP wants you to log everything here because it keeps your eyeballs on their site. Don't listen to them. Log your exercise in Fitbit and your food in MFP. In my experience the double food entry in Fitbit is an occasional, but infrequent, problem and I just delete the extras.

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

883xlsportster wrote: »

What am I'm looking for in the FAQ?

Mainly the fact that there is no reason to log exercise in MFP since you seemed to be wondering if logging food in MFP and exercise in Fitbit was potentially causing problems. However, if you haven't read it, there's lots of good info there.

It's easy to delete extra entries on fitbit. But yesterday it listed a meal (which i didnt edit in mfp) for 120 calories more than it was in mfp. You cant edit it on fitbit, and i didn't want to delete the whole thing, so i had to leave it there

Wow - hope that new little bug wasn't the result of them thinking they fixed something.

That's really bad, 1 meal total and it's wrong.

It happened to me a while ago and now it's started again but mainly when I make changes on MFP, such as adding my B&L for the day and ending up eating it for snack instead and moving it.
1. I delete FB meal line (breakfast as example)
2. MFP go to the same meal line (breakfast, eggs as example) and click on an item as if to change the serving size, don't change anything just click save
3. FB will re-save the meal correctly (breakfast # are sinc'd correctly)

Yes - the instructions during setup say to don't log food in both places - you've discovered why.
That instruction did have good reason behind it.
Some of them don't.