jesse_dylan Member

Yeah, when just using mfp and allowing it access to my steps that Health counts, it seems like it overrides Health and doesn't even check time stamps. Kind of a shame. I think it is giving me more exercise calories than I deserve anyway though!

Seriously? Nobody knows?

Sometimes I'll have calories for my steps, and then I'll enter a workout, and it then takes away my step calories. I had thought maybe it was based upon what time I log something, so that it won't log calories for steps accrued during a logged workout, but I don't think so. Whatever the case, I guess it doesn't count them…

It's nothing you're doing wrong. Up doesn't seem to be working at all. Even when things are working properly, it is flakey and weird. I had a hard time adjusting and figuring out how to use them together. But, now there are times like today when things don't work at all. This was my 10th day with my Up24 and MFP. I think I…

I'm confused about all this as well. Did you ever figure it out?

Thanks, I'll check those out! I thought I had looked everywhere, but I see some results on there that I have not yet perused. I will look at them. Thank you! I hope I can get this figured out sensibly. Maybe I am just getting caught up in minutiae like it says not to do in that article I was linked to at the top of the…

Yes, interesting! So maybe I am going about this the wrong way. So you just use the Up for counting steps and that kind of stuff but not for workouts?

Good point! Well, if I don't make an extra effort, about the only workout I get is a pace express workout, which is really intense but only lasts 15 minutes and can't possibly burn more than 100-200 calories. I don't have a lifestyle or job where I walk around much at all, sadly, so I have to make an effort to walk when I…

Okay, changed it--thanks again. One other thing I was going to ask. I already told MFP that I'm sedentary (which is pretty darn true), thinking that would be easiest and then I could record activity that I do (i.e. it counts my steps, and I log exercise). So, given that I told it I'm sedentary, I'm still confused why it…

Yeah, it's really confusing. :( So since I can't change it in UP, as far as I can tell, I need to figure out how to set MFP so that it is also keeping me at a 500 calorie deficit daily? And then it can just be up to me whether I want to eat that many calories or not. It's rough--I wish UP would provide better documentation…

Even if I'm overestimating my calories, though (or the UP is), I don't get why MFP wouldn't then go along with the over-estimation. MFP doesn't have any information about my exercise other than what UP gives it, so if UP is saying I burned 600 exercising in a day, why wouldn't MFP agree with that 600? I'm at about 198 now…

Well, let's say it was 250 calories instead. How come MFP isn't giving me those 250 calories to eat back again? Normally I'll have about an hour and a half of intense walking, an hour on an exercise bike, and do some a Pace fitness workout and some stuff. I wonder if I can look back and see what that was. It is definitely…

Woops, missed your reply! I thought it would e-mail me! I've turned off the negative calorie thing, and I thought things were working better now. I only get one entry at least, but gosh, I work out like crazy, and MFP will only give me 124 extra calories to eat. It's crazy. UP says I burned about 500 calories on a long…