Should I log treadmill stats on MFP besides wearing FitBit while I workout?

[dsmeadows]

Should I log treadmill stats on MyFitnessPal (MFP) even though I wore FitBit One while I was working out? The reason I ask is that the calorie adjustment on MFP was nowhere near what FitBit said I had burned. Thanks.

[HelenaFitbit]

Hey there @dsmeadows ! I'll be glad to help 

If your Fitbit One is already tracking your workout, it is not needed to add a manual log nor add the workout to MyFitnessPal. Your Fitbit One will update the information and add it as extra calories on your Food Log for the day, like this: 

Adding the log through MyFitnessPal (like the above image) will alter your caloric budget since it will add up to the caloric burn already tracked with your One. 

Hope this helps! Let me know how it goes 

[Heybales]

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@dsmeadows wrote:

Should I log treadmill stats on MyFitnessPal (MFP) even though I wore FitBit One while I was working out? The reason I ask is that the calorie adjustment on MFP was nowhere near what FitBit said I had burned. Thanks.

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The calorie adjustment is NOT your workout calorie burn.

It is the difference between they daily burn of Fitbit and what MFP thought you'd burn with no exercise.

You could have a huge workout and then be super lazy and have no calorie adjustment.

You could be super active and no exercise and have huge calorie adjustment.

Unless you find the Fitbit had a bad estimate of calorie burn, just keep what it found.

And check that by confirming it saw the correct distance.

If off by more than 5%, you need to adjust the stride length after calculating it.