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Reviving this thread. I generally understand how the calculation works. The app is predicting your calorie burn based on your activity in real time. So if you do a big run, it will give you credit for a large amount of calories as it thinks you will be burning at that pace. If you then get in bed for the rest of the day,…
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Well. Overall, was tracking fine. Although perhaps there is an MFP bug because it keeps switching between MFP iOS steps (which i think means AW/Health) and iPhone steps in terms of the label but i believe its always pulling from Health/AW. Not sure how MFP reconciles between various fitness trackers because my fitbit would…
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Pretty sure the Exercise ring is based on wrist movement so only step like exercises will update it. You can still get accurate calorie burn if you choose Indoor bike as the workout as the HR sensor will then be used to measure. Truthfully, i don't think the exercise ring is that useful. It doesn't tie into Health app and…
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Yes and no. When you tell the watch to track a specific workout, it then uses a constant HR sensor plus steps and accelerometer to calculate caloric burn. Otherwise, it is no different from a fitbit in that its utilizing steps and what it thinks is your level of activity to guess at calories burned. It would be very…
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EDIT: Ignore the below mostly. I updated my app today and the new setting didnt originally show up. But now it is -- yeah! However, I have to say that they estimates look very high compared to my fitbit. Meaning, how MFP used to calculate calorie adjustments for the fitbit given the same level of activity would show much…
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A few points since i actually have the watch: 1) Battery life (unless you check the thing every few minutes) will last you a whole day even with a good hour workout. If you don't mind charging it every night, battery life is not an issue for daily use 2) The HR monitor -- so far after 4 different workouts -- seems to work…
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Just to add to this conversation -- SyncSolver works well to get FITBIT data into Apple Health. This is important because FITBIT can serve as a hub for a lot of information and thus you want it to be the primary source that is updating information (besides food/calories which we use MFP). But to do this right so steps…
