Fitbit Subtracting Endomondo "active" Minutes

[SunsetRunner]

I pair my Fitbit account with my Endomondo account so it imports my workouts from Endomondo into Fitbit.  Most of the time, this is awesome.

However, sometimes when it imports the workout from Endomondo, Fitbit actually subtracts the active minutes.  I assume this is because my "workout" isn't "active" enough and, thus, Fitbit believes it should not count towards my daily total; however, rather than simply omiting the figures from my totals, it actually subtracts the data.

For example, yesterday I rode my bike to my son's daycare to pick him up and bring him home (in a bike trailer).  I logged the activity in Endomondo as a "Cycling, Transport" activity.  Before this activity, I had 12 "Very Active Minutes" in Fitbit (according to my online Dashboard and my Force).  My bike ride took approximately 20 minutes.  Afterwards, my Force still showed 12 "Very Active Minutes" (because I hadn't actually taken any steps).  However, my online Dashboard now showed 5 minutes.  So my total had actually gone down.

Has anyone else experienced similar issues?  I want to include my Endomondo statistics, and for my runs it works flawlessly including the data in Fitbit; but for other activities, such as "Walking" or "Cycling" activities, it seems to subtract the data rather than simply adding or omitting it.

[Lightgirl]

I have the same issue. Friday I worked out on the treadmill and elliptical trainer burning around 290 calories. By the time I got home from the gym, Fitbit made an adjustment on MFP adding subtracting over 100 calories from that figure. Today I danced for 50 minutes and Fitbit subtracted over 300 calories from my burn total. I don't understand this. I've been using Fitbit for a couple of months and this is new.

[SunsetRunner]

Still having this issue.  Is there any fix?  Anything else I can try?  Would love to find a solution for this.

[slysam]

I am surprised this happens with cycling, but when you log an activity whatever is logged replaces the fitbit calorie burn estimate (based on the movement data) and sometimes the distance and steps. Very Active Minutes is based on the average calorie burn per minute for the workout duration with manually logged activities (and those logged through another service). The calories burned per minute has to be at a certain level that varies by your BMR stats (mine seems to be over 5 times my resting calorie burn, somewhere between 5 and 6 times).  For fitbit tracked movement, it may be the same standard but it is minute by minute rather than a flattened out average of the whole duration. Some minutes tend to spike higher than others--and if the higher spikes are high enough you get some very active minutes. I find that I do lose very active minutes for logging activities that Fitbit can track well (usually step based activities). I only get them for non-step activities if if was a very vigorous actvitiy. Usually for activity like you describe, when logged, I see "moderately active minutes". That is probably why you still see very active minutes for running since that is considered vigorous activity. (Cycling can be, but perhaps it depends on the speed. I am not really a cyclist the closes I get is an ocassional Spin class and I do get very active mintues for that when I log my heart rate monitor calorie burn).