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josephparsons92
josephparsons92 Posts: 23 Member
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hello,
i'm new to fitbit and my fitness pal community and I have kind of anakward question. I have been reviewing 2sites like my fitness pal and was wondering if it was possible to be synced to 2 nutrition sites at the same time? or would that be too confusing for fitbit to handle? i'm using the sites to review which one works best with my particular health and fitness needs. for example trying to weed out which one has a lot of difficulty staying synced to the system. which one has the most bugs to work out, etc..
any help with this inquiry would be greatly appreciated.
thank you

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  • rego1203
    rego1203 Posts: 24 Member
    Right now I have my Fitbit synced to my fitness pal and the weight watchers app. Fitbit sends my steps to both, but not my other activity like running, weights etc. I have to manually enter these
  • josephparsons92
    josephparsons92 Posts: 23 Member
    djrego91 wrote: »
    Right now I have my Fitbit synced to my fitness pal and the weight watchers app. Fitbit sends my steps to both, but not my other activity like running, weights etc. I have to manually enter these

    so when I do my bike riding, power walks and cardio excercises I need to log those in manually?
  • rego1203
    rego1203 Posts: 24 Member
    If I run I dont log it on MFP because the steps are included in the Fitbit steps. But if i do something else and my Fitbit doesn't recognize and record it then I add it to MFP. Am I doing it correct? I dont know..lol
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    The Fitbit database is better at estimating calories if you are doing a workout that is best NOT handled by HR-based calorie burn.
    Like lifting or intervals.
    Or not at all, like swimming.
    Or a bunch if you have a non-HR step-based device, like biking, elliptical, lifting, stairs, rowing, swimming, ect.

    But if doing steady-state cardio, the calorie burn is in the daily data - you just can't see it if you didn't start a workout on the device.

    Which means you don't log a Workout Record and potentially overwrite better info with database info.
    You log an Activity Record (start/stop time and workout name, and notes if desired for review later) - that will then display the HR, calorie burn, steps, distance - already seen by Fitbit for the chunk of time you gave.
    Just have to note the time.

    Logging on MFP forces an additional sync to occur besides overwriting better info - and syncs are sometimes sketchy - and increasing them by 2 on each logging can cause increased mis-syncs.

    Fitbit site's would need options as to what is going to be synced if selecting 2 sites that do the food side - because if both synced - you'd have useless info on Fitbit for eating level.

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