What is the scoop with stolen fitbit stats?

[mlaccs]

Like many addicts I pride myself on hitting milestones.  Often times things like the last ## steps or stairs or calories to the next 1,000 level before bed. 

But lately I have noticed a trend where the stats on my HR and Phone and Web interface will all look like I expect and then adjust themselves.   Normally this is just a pain as I think I am done and really there is more to do but it really sucks when I am neara goal then get backed off minutes before midnight and am stuck.

Examples being I see 20,134 steps when I go to bed and wake up to see 19,930 redorded  or go to bed with 3,050 calories and wake up to see a downward adjustment to 2,990

Is anyone else trackign this close and if so what are you doing to fix?  Not a life altering problem but it is a bit of a pain. 

[Heybales]

Where are these stats you are viewing - device, mobile app, or web account?

The are all three different places, and the app and web have their own servers - with web account being master.

Also - do you manually log any walking or running workouts?

Not hitting the button on device and making an Activity Record - but actually logging a Workout Record with your own more accurate distance perhaps, or calories, for specifically walking/running?

[mlaccs]

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@Heybales wrote:

Where are these stats you are viewing - device, mobile app, or web account?

The are all three different places, and the app and web have their own servers - with web account being master.

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No manual entries at all.  Sync with mapmywalk and it is possible that is a factor.  I have stats on my FitBit HR that then sync to my phone then the web interface.  

Then sometimes, with no patter I can find all three will make some kind of adjustment that I cannot figure out and that drops the stats 2-6%  nothing major except when I am making sure I hit my goals and then wake up in the morning to find that the goals were not met after all.  

Again, this is not a monumental problem but wondering if anyone else has seen the issues.

[Heybales]

So here is what is supposed to happen with other workouts synced in - so see if this plays in to your timing and what you've seen.

When you create a manual walking or running workout, with a stated distance - MFP back calculates from your given stride length a new set up steps - and replaces the steps, distance, and calorie burn in the daily stats with whatever that Workout Record has in it.

So daily stats change.

Some sites aren't so integrated - any workout that comes in is only seen for replacing calorie burn - original steps and distance are kept.

Some sites/apps are intergrated with sharing exercise type and distance, and so if a workout is tagged as walking or running and syncs over - Fitbit does exactly what it does with a manually entered workout, distance is accepted as fact, along with calories, and steps is replaced with calculated.

So you might think about when you've seen those changes - if it goes along with MMW syncing a workout across.

Next time it happens - view the Activity Record that your Fitbit created if you can hit the button and start a workout.

That Activity Record is a snapshot of the stats your Fitbit saw and stays unchanged no matter what happens next.

Then the MMW is synced over as a workout - now look at those stats. What is different?

And is that difference how much your daily stats changed?