you might start a topic on your specific issue - the FAQ's aren't place for troubleshooting as very few read the FAQ again once they've read it.

Plus most people have issue with Fitbit account syncing to MFP account, not the device to their account - so spell that out like you did just now.
Also you'll get a bigger audience for Fitbit specific issues on Fitbit's forum.

Since it's distance and time (for pace) and weight that actually calculates to calories, steps is merely a way to get distance - therefore can be very big impact if majority of calories is from daily activity movement. And it's wrong.

Because 12K steps is actually getting into Very Active level by what MFP would use, at least Active, that would be BMR x 1.75 or 1.6 as estimate - but obviously how much distance the steps leads to matters.

Ever walked a known distance at your average daily pace (not grocery store shuffle, not exercise level speed) and confirmed Fitbit was correct (it will feel slow at maybe 2 mph)?
You'd want to start a walking workout and end it correctly - that way you'd have steps too for that known distance to recalculate stride length, besides seeing if Fitbit was correct.

Most with trackers find their calories go above MFP Sedentary approaching 4K steps, so they start getting an adjustment.
Depending on distance from them.

So the reason for having stride length at avg daily pace, is because the accelerometer trackers estimate distance by measuring impact, and then comparing to expected based on stride length and weight.
If less or more impact G's, distance for that step can be calculated.

As with anything, the farther away from avg or expected in this case the less accurate the calculation, so right in the middle allows going both directions.
Compared to some that set stride length at their fast walking pace of say 4mph - which is good for 30-60 min of the day, then the other 1/3 of the day is far less distance, and the inaccuracy at the opposite side of the range is very bad.

Some other issues even if steps and distance was dead-on correct - the calculations use your BMR.

So if your BMR is decently lower than estimated because of years of yo-yo dieting losing muscle mass so less than avg, or badly adapted metabolism from diet stress, or genetics (even no thyroid and no meds is usually max 5% lower) could throw it off.

So you give the device the best info possible, correct what can be - and then tweak to fit results.

Well frankly, of all the estimates - Zero is a known wrong value.
And starting on the low end can have your body adapt and burn less. Self-fulfilling action as it were.
Better to start on the high end and work way down slowly.

If you trust MFP, trust it's trying to correct itself with better info, or at least use that to better select from MFP's 4 activity levels instead of Fitbit's almost infinite.
Enable negative adjustments for when you do less.

Your steps should show up.

In the MFP app or website account - you need to set the Setting for Step Source to be Fitbit.
That means not only steps but calorie info is taken from Fitbit and maths done.

Calories from adjustment only show up under Exercise (FAQ explains what that is though) by default if Fitbit is looking to see you burn more than MFP was told you'd burn anyway - by your selection of Activity Level.

If you enable setting for Negative Calorie Adjustments, then you'll get adjustment even when below that amount.

Reread the first part of the FAQ about what the adjustment is - it's not the workout.

The workout data is already within the total daily burn that comes over to MFP.

Just make a wall post about the workout - unless you just love MFP's exercise diary over Fitbit's own.
And you should not for many reasons.

MFP adjusts things - Fitbit only sends steps for MFP to display, and calorie burn.

milali wrote: »

heybales wrote: »

Reread the first part of the FAQ about what the adjustment is - it's not the workout.

The workout data is already within the total daily burn that comes over to MFP.

Just make a wall post about the workout - unless you just love MFP's exercise diary over Fitbit's own.
And you should not for many reasons.

MFP adjusts things - Fitbit only sends steps for MFP to display, and calorie burn.

I use MFP for my food as its got everything already setup and works so very well with bar code scanners for new things ect ect. So how do I correctly get my exercise to show in MFP? Do I just manually add what Fitbit tells me I expended? Or do I just do nothing and let that fitbit adjustment cover everything I need?

I also enjoy water sports like surfing so when I do that I have been added it in MFP as I can't wear my fitbit doing that. (its a Fitbit Charge HR

Optimally I would like fitbits exercises to show up automatically in MFP. Is that possible?

Fitbit does NOT send workouts to MFP.

Why do you want workouts to show up in MFP?

Fitbit uses it's exercise database better than MFP - it's better to add other workouts there.

Really - have you compared the exercise Diary of both apps?

The calorie adjustment that MFP creates takes care of the workouts AND differences in daily life.

The workout showing up is NOT required.

Add Workout in Fitbit app uses the same database MFP and Fitbit both use.
So surfing should be there.

Most don't notice posts to the FAQ on current issues - usually there is one or likely several topics on whatever issue is going on.

And actually ONLY the most current daily total calorie burn should be shared, it's not additive, it's replacement.

TinManJoe wrote: »

I've recently obtained a Hidrate Spark 2.0 Smart Bottle, and while it works fine in its own app, it doesn't seem to sync with Fitbit - even if I have it "connected" in my account with Hidrate. Has anybody else encountered this, and is there a known fix?

refer to the post right before yours. It's a FAQ, not troubleshooting topic.

Not an app change.
Fitbit does not send workouts to MFP.

Merely the Total Daily Calories burned that contain your extra activity and your workouts already in the total.

It's why you may show a large Fitbit Adjustment in MFP Exercise Diary, but as soon as you add a workout, the Adjustment goes down by the exact same amount.
And the workout shows up on Fitbit as a general workout of Calories - no step or distance info.

When that workout syncs over to Fitbit, it replaces any stats that count for the day - because the workout doesn't contain that info.
All Fitbit knows, is for this chunk of 30 min it had a workout of Time, start time, calories, steps, distance, HR.
Now a workout synced in with same Time & start time - so the calories was replaced, and the steps/distance/HR no longer count for daily totals because it doesn't know about them in the daily totals anymore.

Now - if you had the device track the activity of that workout (and that's where you got the calorie burn from you manually created on MFP) - Fitbit also created an Activity Record - a snapshot basically of the stats for that chunk of time.
If you replaced the daily stats - like with the MFP synced (or manually created) workout - the snapshot of stats remains. But it no longer counts towards anything.

People use to manually create workouts with long distances, and combined with a manually tweaked short stride length - would get a calculated ton of steps.
To cheat on challenges. Yep, to cheat.

So what you see happening prevents that.
Steps on manually created workouts don't count, steps already there are lost, and if the workout syncs in, info is lost.

But it's always been like that - so either they had a messed up setting for the time you've used it so far and finally got it back to correct after people were found cheating on challenges - or you've been logging workouts with incorrect start/duration and so it didn't replace the time Fitbit had the workout for.

So what your description means is that of the 60 active minutes - 30 were part of that workout, and were removed for consideration since replaced.
Now you wait a day or two, and that little trick of deleting the workout to get the Fitbit stats to be seen again will fail, as the original data is condensed and per minute data lost.

Or you had 2 workouts on the Fitbit with that break in the middle.
But on MFP you logged 1 longer workout (only 10 calories - that's wrong too) and so part of the original workout data was replaced - but some remained to count towards the 30 min Active.

You might see if these other accounts that sync to MFP and want to see workouts - could sync directly with Fitbit and receive them from there, then you can stop logging the workouts on MFP.

kissmeandmeanit wrote: »

I'm still fairly confused and I apologize if this is less complicated than I am making it but, if I use my fitbit versa to auto recognize my workouts, they don't pull over to MFP? ....BUT If I start and stop work outs manually on my versa, they will pull over to MFP but display as Fitbit calorie adjustment?

So far MFP will only pull my steps, not my workouts, elliptical, aerobics etc

Suggest rereading the first section again, some other things you may have missed.

MFP pulls nothing - that would be a security issue if access was allowed into your accounts from other accounts to pull things.

Fitbit pushes - and they opted not to push workouts.

Those Adjustments have nothing to do with how a workout was started for tracking.
They have nothing specific to do with workouts actually.

Those adjustments are merely the difference between what Fitbit pushed for daily total calorie burn, and what MFP thought you'd burn at your selected activity level and no workouts.

Fitbit could be higher because of a workout, or more active, or likely both, to cause MFP to make that adjustment.
So you have no way from MFP side to see what of that adjustment was workouts or increased daily activity.
But MFP is better for the food side of the goals. So doesn't matter.
Fitbit is better for the activity side of goals - and it will spell out those differences in calorie burn.