Fellow weight watcher/fitbitters....HELP!

[MegJay1115]

Hey everyone!  I just recieved my fitbit on christmas eve..  I have been on weight watchers since March and have lost 40 lbs.  I guess my main question is how do they connect?  Calorie and point counting are very different.  It would show I am over my caloies on fitbit but right on track or under points on WW.  Its also a little difficult to track my food on here.  The seletion is much wider on WW and it's hard to track on two systems all day... what works for you??

Thanks!

Meghan

[Mykkisu]

From what I can tell, Fitbit says you're under if your burned to intake deficit is 1000. Otherwise, you're off. So, if you ate 2000 calories, but burned 1000, you would be good on Fitbit. However, you're probably supposed to be in the 1200 to 1800 range on WW.
Also, Fitbit measures throughout the day. So, if you've only eaten 600 calories by lunch, you're going to be off.
I would enter the food on WW. The Fitbit is going to tell you how many total calories it thinks you've burned. If your deficit is in the 1000 range, you should be good.

[Gishymoe]

I have been a fit bit user since 2011.

 I have also been on Weight Watchers for the support for many years.

 "when I am on plan" I follow the old "6 week body makeover" diet plan, ( which is mostly eating all weight watcher power foods but more strict than weight watchers by watching portions, timing and salt much more closely ) .

 I track everything i eat and do into fitbit's website.  At the end of the day, I make sure all my tracking is complete and then using  the fitbit nutrition numbers I calculate all my WW points.  I also am a premium member and have made a custom log just for WW points and I enter it in there,  So when I look back at my day/week/month graph I can see all my good days and bad days.  I have never used my extra weight watchers weekly points. I focus more on what I eat and not the calories  but fitbit tracks them for me.

 I am very protien focused and have it at every meal  along with either a veggie or fruit.  only couple meals a day do I eat a good carb..  My weaknesse are portion control and salt.  Salt makes me crave everything and constantly chanllanges my willpower, so I really watch how much sodium I eat and track that too.  

In 2010 without any exercise and before I got my fitbit I lost 117 lb and reached goal.

Without tracking, never embracing exercise and a few stressful times I have unfortunately gained it all back.  I am determined this year to repeat the weight loss, reach goal and regain my WW lifetime status PLUS exercise to build muscle and MAINTAIN my goal weight. 

fitbit gives me the daily accountability and daily feedback to keep my weight loss efforts my focus. this fall i purchased the new fitbit one and a galaxy S4 so I can check and update all day long by bluetooth and not just when I get home on my laptop... HUGE help.

hope this helps, you can use both fitbit and weight watchers together, just have to do it yourself.  Since WW has active link I do not see them connecting their WW app to the fitbit website like other apps.

[HealthyHanna]

Gishymoe, kudos to you for your determination to lose the weight with diet and exercise.  Maintaining lost weight is very hard.  I know because I went to WW in 2005 and lost  over 150 lbs by 2007.  Then I maintained it until 2012.  Unfortunately I managed to regain 70 pounds and have recommitted to lose this weight.   You are taking positive steps that will get you to goal.

[KateDu]

I lost 47 pounds on Weight Watchers and have kept it off for 5 years.  Honestly, I would stick with tracking the WW way if it has worked for you up to now.  Fitbit will help you stay motivated to move more.  It seems like the 2, WW and Fitbit - are very compatible.

[JaneZee]

I've been on Weight Watchers all of 2013.  The ActiveLink was a constant discouragement to me so I now have received Fit Bit One from my daughter for Christmas!  I played around with it tonight and found it easier than the eTools to find food to log. Once I logged my meals from the day, I just used the summaries of each meal from Fit Bit, put them in the WW calculator (after subtracting zero point foods like fruits and veggies) and then did a Quick Add into the eTools.  It was so easy and quick!  I didn't want to have 2 systems going either, but this was great.  I checked several points calculated from Fit Bit stats against the Weight Watcher points and they were right on!  Hope this helps! I've lost 25 lbs. so far, and have another 45 to go.  Excited about 2014!!!

[Mary]

MegJay- I would log my food at MyFitnessPal and also seek out the plug-in someone wrote that converts that data there into points, then link it to Fitbit.  

The two plans won't be the same.  Fitbit is going to direct you toward a calorie deficit based on your goal loss per week (1000 calories/day for 2 lbs/week loss).  WW is going to have you eating around 1800 calories on average, if you're like most people.  

If you want to just estimate your points from a food log with calories only, figure around 1 point per 40 calories, excluding free foods.  

[lilrhody]

What a great idea you had to agg foods to the fitbit site and then use the nutritional info to log total PP at the end of the day. I think I will try that. I reached LT status last year on January 4th, but ever since I have been hovering just a pound or two beyond that 2 lb buffer they allow, so I have had to pay a little bit (just 14 for 90 days) for my online code. I thought VERY BRIEFLY of buying the ww pedometer, but they make you pay a monthly fee after buying it. So, thank you for posting your reply. I will definately use your method!

[WendyB]

I just track my food on WW. I tried MFP and Fitbit but it was just too much logging and just stick with WW now

There is a WW group Here as well

https://www.fitbit.com/group/228TND

[Sammyjoe]

Thats great that you have been so successful in the past.  I'm sure you'll do it again you sound very determined.  I'm also trying to get back to my goal weight at WW so I can attend without having to pay every week but it is hard.  I'm hoping to get back on track with the Fitbit and then go to the meetings for support and the recipes that the other members talk about.

[Marsha31]

I am not sure how you join a discussion, but am going to try.  I need all the support I can get.

Marsha31

[waiting2fli]

I log my food in WW, then calculate activity points in WW based on my total steps for the day...

But then it's hard for me to sync my fitbit since they don't support my phone for syncing, so updating the fitbit site throughout the day doesn't make sense for me.

[layla]

How do you do the conversion from fitbit steps to WW activity tracking?  Seems to me WW only lets you enter activity by duration and intensity, and I'd have to do some sort of rough calculation based on measuring how fast I generally walk.  Seems like a real pain to keep track of and keep calculating.  Is there a shortcut?

Thanks

[threenoses]

Why can't the two communicate as so many other diett plans do?  I don't have time two double chart,yet I want all the information.  Thats why I choose a force

[edbk35]

On the WW site.....where you track your food. Look under the acivity tab then go to the bottom of the page. There is a tab for steps. There you enter your stride. I based mine on the formula I found online. Height x .413. I didn't want to have to figure that out with actual measuring. For men it is height x .415. I had a little over 15k steps last night and it gave me 10 activity points.

[lilrhody]

Did you use height in inches?

[Mary]

Yes, height in inches.  

[Jim1959]

Meghan,

I hear you loud and clear on the calories in FitBit versus the WW points.  I dropped the online WW about 2 months ago because I really didn't want 2 sytems.  I love my Force and it for sure has helped me get a really good handle on my sleep and I love the 10,000 step buzz.  However I'm having a real problem getting my head around the calories.  To the point where I just give up and as such weight is up.  So tomorrow I'm back to counting points, back to WW online, and I will log the steps (saw a post here on a calculation to ge there). 

Really unfortunate these 2 great apps (Fitbit and WW) can't figure a way to work together.

Jim