Garmin steps

Why do you say you know they are connected?

For web account view.
So your GC shows these 2 items regarding MFP:



And MFP shows this regarding GC:



Because when you use terms that aren't actually the terms used (online) it just makes me wonder if you are looking where I'm thinking.

And currently Garmin changed their landing page for accepting request to link accounts, and either they didn't tell MFP or MFP didn't update it.

But it can still be done.

dewd2 wrote: »

Depending on how you have your activity level set you may not see it. I have mine set to 'sedentary' (since I work at my desk) then Garmin takes care of the rest (pretty much any steps get counted as calorie adjustment). If your profile set to active or very active it may not be counting the steps since it already accounts for them in your normal daily activity.

Even if you don't get a positive calorie adjustment (and haven't allowed negative adjustments), MFP still registers your step count from Garmin. Or at least that's the way it works for me (Vivoactive 4s).

More info when I clicked the 'i' link.

Wow, thanks. I learned something new. I see the same thing as you on the app. I have never looked at it before.

Today I see nothing though. I wonder if I'll see it eventually (I've walked a whopping 986 steps so far today ).

Edit to add: The steps did show up after I opened the Garmin App.

dewd2 wrote: »

Wow, thanks. I learned something new. I see the same thing as you on the app. I have never looked at it before.

Today I see nothing though. I wonder if I'll see it eventually (I've walked a whopping 986 steps so far today ).

Edit to add: The steps did show up after I opened the Garmin App.

This^^ you have to open garmin

chelle4055 wrote: »

I'm also having this issue. MFP won't sync my steps accurately. It seems to update in the late morning and then not again no matter what I do. It will register the exercise I do using the activity tracker function on my vivoactive 3, but not the updated step count. Opening the connect app doesn't work. My steps were stuck at the 3,700 I had by lunch and never updated to the 11,000 at the end of the day. Since I have negative calorie adjustment on it was really messing with my calories for the day. For now I removed the Garmin from MFP and just mentally calculate my calories based on my desired deficit of 1,000 per day to lose 2lb per week.

So later in the day a workout you just did will get to Garmin Connect and sync over to MFP to show up?

How about calories, does it update or stuck at earlier sync number?

Find in your Exercise diary the entry for Garmin adjustment, tap and hold - what's the time stamp there?
As recent as the workout?

Because if not, indeed you are getting very bad effect, workout is added, but in effect removed too - so no credit for it.

Because steps doesn't carry calories - 2 different figures sent by tracker accounts. Workouts and calories could be syncing over just fine, and only steps is missing for some reason?
In which case - does MFP really have that great a step logger compared to Garmin?

Your Garmin Connect account does show the new figures later in the day for steps and calories?
You tried hitting Sync Now from that side?

Are food calorie totals showing up in GC correctly from MFP then?

I was just looking at this yesterday myself as I did most of my walking after 2 pm and it hadn't updated at all. 9pm at night it still said it was basing my exercise off 1:32 pm. I kept refreshing MFP on my computer as I had just come in from a 3 mile walk and nothing happened, but as soon as I opened the Garmin Connect app on my phone my exercise calories updated on MFP.
I hadn't looked on earlier days, but they had eventually updated I think... maybe not and I had a few more calories to my credit than I was given, but I would rather that than thinking I could eat more I guess.

Garmin and MFP are smart enough to not count my steps double during my runs. Tomorrow I expect to have 35000+ steps but they won't be counted on MFP since I'll be running a race. They will still show up on Garmin. Now that I know where to look I'll be curious to see if they show on MPF as well (even though they are not counted).

kicking_horse wrote: »

Good morning everyone! I have my garmin connect account connected to myfitnesspal, but is there a way for the steps to auto sync in myfitnesspal? That way it shows my exercise calories there automatically? Thank you!

It already does it on mine and i hate it. Can't delete it either so i ignore it

It works as expected. The steps show up but I got 0 calories for them since my race was already counted.

Oh bad, app updates from the server.
Perhaps not all the updates occurred for total figures?

Now I see what you mean by steps show up but 0 calories from them.
Actually, yes it did, but MFP accounts for subtracting any workouts it knows about from total daily burn.
Steps is merely a figure like glasses of water. MFP just chooses to display them there. But it has nothing to do with the calorie count info in that line.

Tap and hold on that Adjustment line in your MFP Exercise list.
It should give the total calorie burn for the day GC sent over and time stamp.

And then it will show what it estimated your daily burn would be with the workout added.

And you must not have burned as much as MFP was expecting, hence no adjustment. But you also probably don't have negative adjustment enabled.
I got that yesterday with long bike ride.
Outside of ride I was well below sedentary.