NancyN795 Member

I'm curious... Is everyone who is having this problem using the phone app, or are people seeing it on the web site, too? I rarely use the phone app and I haven't had any problems.

On your MFP phone app, select "Steps" from the menu, and make sure that "Fitbit Tracker" is the selected device. However, you mentioned that food goes from MFP to Fitbit and mentioned that steps from Fitbit aren't showing on MFP, but you didn't say whether calories burned are transferring from Fitbit to MFP. Are you…

On your MFP phone app, select "Steps" from the menu, and make sure that "Fitbit Tracker" is the selected device.

@denorios & @MrsJ1210 - you should probably be asking these questions over in the regular discussion section, as the FAQ thread doesn't get as much attention. It's really meant as a reference, not an active thread. That being said: @denorios - it looks to me like you might be getting caught up in a current MFP bug that I…

I usually don't log extremely accurately, either. I find it isn't good for my mental health (or my marriage, for that matter). Plus, I did try to log very accurately for a couple of months last year and found that my Fitbit seems to overestimate my calorie burn a bit. So here's what I do. Since I have basically 2 standard…

I believe this is a job for customer service. I'm not sure if it is Fitbit customer service or MFP customer service, but I've seen other people post with this problem and, if I remember correctly, it isn't something you can solve by yourself.

I could possibly complete the 5K now, but I am really, really worried about my knees. I know from experience that having a knee go out on me sets me back for weeks or even months. So, I think I want to sneak up on the 5K.

Nope, not a premium member benefit. Go to your profile page (On the website. I haven't found it on the phone app.) Click on your profile pic in the upper right.

Now, that's accurate! It could be just a lucky fluke that you came that close this month. If you just started working on losing weight then it is less likely to continue to be that accurate because people generally lose extra fast when they first start (water weight, I think). Plus, that's probably a higher rate of weight…

I think that moment of "Wow! I feel really good!" that I sometimes get after my run is probably the "rare & elusive" runner's high. It's definitely rare and elusive for me and only happens once I'm done, but it is a different feeling than just my normal "Whew! I survived another workout" post-workout feeling. I'm looking…

A 40 minute 5K might eventually be doable. Converting units (I wish I could think in metric units - they're much easier to use and make much more sense, but...) I get that to be about 4.65 MPH. The fastest I've tried to run on the treadmill at the moment is 4.5 MPH and I can only do that for only a short time. But, I can…

Thanks. I may look into that when I get to running outside again.

Thanks, mangrothian. It took me a long time to start walking outside, too. I did Wii Zumba for about 18 months before my husband and I started walking outside, even though very few people actually see us where we usually walk (although it's always the same people). I still don't want to go to a gym. I also have the excuse…

Nope, not signing up for a 5K any time soon. I am very introverted and I was ridiculed for my athletic abilities over and over and over again as a child. Ain't gonna happen. (And yes, don't bother with the "nobody is going to ridicule you, etc." I know that's true, but my aversion to exercising around others is long…

Thanks for the advice. I'm not really sure what qualifies as an "interval" or how to structure that. Thus, my attempt to just gradually increase my speed and time. I didn't want to go on to the bridge to 10K program until I could run 5K. Then I might give it a try. It frustrates me that the C25k program just assumes that…

I started working on getting healthier and losing weight almost exactly 3 years ago. I signed up with MFP a couple of months after I started and I got my first Fitbit about 9 months after I started. My weight loss hasn't been fast, but it has been pretty consistent (with a few plateaus) - averaging 1/2 pound a week for the…

Yes, logging the exercise in MFP wipes out what Fitbit estimated as your calories burned from the exercise. That's why it is generally recommended that you NOT log exercise in MFP (despite what MFP says). If your Fitbit can't track it accurately (biking, swimming, etc.) then log it in Fitbit (although in that case, either…

You don't get a separate Fitbit calorie adjustment for steps and for exercise. It is all bundled together. Yes, MFP will display your Fitbit steps, but that's all MFP does with that number - display it. If you take 10,000 shuffling low impact steps you could well get a lower adjustment than if you take 5000 fast, high…

It doesn't work that way. MFP displays your Fitbit step count but that doesn't affect your calories at all. What does affect your calories is, well, the calories you burn. All of them. The ones burned when doing circuit training and the ones burned when doing the shopping, chasing the kids, making food, working on the…

Do not obsess over your floor count. Don't try to make it correct. It doesn't affect any calorie calculations, so by taking your Fitbit off and doing 15 flights of stairs you cost yourself accuracy where it matters - in calories burned. The floor count is notoriously inaccurate although I think Fitbit says they've improved…

Also (assuming the accounts are connected), in the MFP app, open the menu, select Steps and make sure that Fitbit is the selected device.

The first, partial day with a Fitbit is always somewhat off. It actually "learns" about your typical activity over time and does some adjustment. This is even more so with one of the HR models (Charge HR, Surge, Blaze). It takes quite a few days (or longer) to figure out your resting heart rate, which affects how it…

No, not all Fitbit steps are created equal. Your Fitbit senses not just the fact that you took a step, but the intensity of the step (and frequency of steps, too). A low intensity step will be assumed to be shorter than your "stride length" (so will add less distance to that measurement) and a high intensity step will be…

If you want to use the data from your Polar HRM instead of your Fitbit, go ahead and enter it manually. In that case, since you're getting the calorie burn value from you Polar, not from MFP's lousy estimates, you can enter it either in Fitbit or MFP. I'd still enter it in Fitbit, but that's just my preference.

Your Fitbit counts all of your steps that it sees. Why would it exclude exercise steps? Why would you want it to exclude steps taken while exercising? macgurlnet is right about logging exercise in Fitbit, not MFP, and right about recommending the FAQ. Here's a handy link:…

Short answer - the best approach for most people seems to be to log all exercise in Fitbit and all food in MFP. You will need to manually log exercise that your Fitbit can't track, but do it in Fitbit, not MFP. Long answer: read the FAQ, found in the stickies. It explains this, and many other things, in detail. Here's a…

I take the body fat measurement as merely showing me a trend, not an accurate number. I recently switched from a very old Tanita scale to an Aria and my BF% on the Aria is significantly higher (although not 5%). So, right now my BF% trend shown on Trendweight doesn't look so good but eventually the old numbers won't be…

Actually, it shouldn't give you double calorie credit because as long as you enter the start time and duration the numbers from MFP will overwrite the data that Fitbit collected. However, Fitbit's estimates should be better, so you don't want to do that. I would recommend reading the FAQ found in the stickies. It explains…

I think people put it inside their sock or use some other kind of wide, cloth-covered elastic band to hold it in place. It won't be as secure as on your wrist, though. I think you'd have to do some of your own testing to see if it sees the right number of steps and whether the heart rate readings were reasonable.

Upgrading to premium isn't necessary to get help. I forget whether it is MFP customer service or Fitbit customer service that has to take action to fix this particular problem, but it isn't something you can solve on your own.