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Many countries favour using Kilojoules instead of calouries for enrgy input and output. Please add the option to choose in all relevent dashboard areas.
I am from Australia and all our food labelling and government health campaigns are based on kilojoules it would be useful to include an ability to enter food in Kilojoules and show energy burned in kilojoules too.
I strongly support this. In most countries, SI (Kilojoules, grammes, millilitres, etc) is the only legal standard of measure. Food advisories in Australia, for instance are not required to be in Calories but they must be in Kilojoules.
This can be easily implemented by adding a separate but linked Kj field. Thus users setting up a new food can enter in Kj in the KJ field and the converted value appears in the Calorie field or vice versa. This is not a big job for a programmer.
I bought a fitbit today and when setting up, went to switch it to kJ, and was stunned to see it wasn't an option after googling (I assumed i must have been doing it wrong, as I assumed that this was a basic option that would be available even on the very lowest-range systems). This is really ridiculous. It seems there's been several years of people requesting a basic functionality. Seriously. Get on with it.
True. However in this global society where the vast majority of people and countries use kilojoules, the loss of functionality should be by those who use calories. 😀
There is a fault in the Fitbit iOS app with a missing Unit selection option.
In the app if you click on Account > Advanced Settings > Units the option to select the correct energy unit of Kilojoules (Kj) instead of Calories is missing.
The official unit of measure of energy in my location is Kilojoule and has been since the 1970s.
All energy ratings on food packaging are in Kilojoules. Food outlets will soon be legally required to state the energy content of their meals, in Kilojoules.
All government communication is about the recommended 8 700 Kj diet for adults.
My lovely hubby just bought me a Fitbit. I live in NZ. It seems half my workmates wear Fitbit wristbands. We use kj not cal. Please add kilojoules as an option. Weight watchers can manage it, why not you guys? Thanks.
Have added my vote to this. Wish I could vote multiple times! Oh I know, I could tell all those friends I've recommended fitbit to, to vote!... awww no, dearie me, that's rght, I didn't recommend it to anyone. Because as a NZ user, calories are not much use to me. Kjs please. Otherwise I agree that fitbit is just a glorified pedometer, and is a disappointing purchase.
I just bought a Flex and can't believe that kiloJoules cannot be selected. I live in Australia and by law energy information on food packaging is in kiloJoules. I have over the last few years become accustomed to kiloJoules and don't want to go back to calories.
Please add the option to change the units of energy to KiloJoules.
It seems odd to provide metric measurements for distance and weight but not for food intake. In New Zealand and Australia while there is still product packaging with both CAL and KJ measurements displayed most doctors and media discussions refers to KJ primarily. There is life outside the USA.
I am brand new to Fitbit and after setting up my Charge HR and checking out the Dashboard, pretty much the first thing I did was check the settings to try to change to kilojoules. I have used a couple of different food logging websites before and both of them are US based, but both of them have kilojoules as an option. PLEASE can we have kilojoules!
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