Charge does not convert an imported activity from Myfitnesspal to steps?

[Paul_G]

I use Myfitnesspal to track food and cycling activiy either entered manually or on Strava. Previous advice seems to be to not wear the tracker when doing this kind of activity if it can be tracked elsewhere and imported in. Tried this today on a spin bike session. Logged this into Myfitnesspal and the activity was importd into Fitbit. So far so good! However while the dashboartd recognises the extra calories, it has not converted the activity into steps.

Is the only way to convert an activity to steps to enter it manually? If I do that and allow trhe import from Myfitnesspal as well does this mean my steps will be correct but the calories doubled?

Is the fix to enable negative calorie adjustments in Myfitnesspal or will this just work in Myfitnesspal itself?

[Paul_G]

OK, hope someone can help here as I may have misundersttod how the dashboard works in terms of calories remaining. Presumably the number of calories remaining increases if you do more steps. I.e. steps =energy expended = calories. If I import an activity which already states the number of calories then the fitbit dashboard adds these to the allowance. If it showed the step equivalent as well then presumably you would be doubling up as the step equivalent would then add more calories? Is this correct?

My only previous experience with a tracker was for the Global Corporate Challenge where cycling and swimming activities had a step allowance. I.e. in this case it was steps that were important and not calories. I was expecting to see something similar here but I can understand why this isn't the case.