MFP calories from workout to Fitbit

[Jennkhil]

I understand that you have to manually enter the calories burned from the workout into MFP and that transfers over to the Fitbit ap and you're not to enter workout onto the Fitbit ap correct? My question is I need to use my Fitbit to know how many calories I've burned. Is there anyway to capture the calories burned without it saving automatically? I could then enter it into MFP. Right now it's double dipping. Any help would be appreciated.

[MakMak]

Hi, @Jennkhil! I'm not quite clear what you think is double dipping. When you enter an activity in MFP, it overwrites the calories and active minutes your tracker registers. In certain cases, it will also overwrite steps (activities of run/walk). Could you explain what you think is happening?

[Jennkhil]

I started an activity on my Fitbit. It recorded the data in my Fitbit ap but didn't send it to the MFP. But if I input the activity in the MFP it updates both making it look like I've done twice as much. The MFP ap said to record the calories and workouts in that ap and it will transfer over to Fitbit. The problem I have is the only way I know how many calories I've burned is by getting the data from my Fitbit. MFP doesn't capture the real time data while I'm doing the workout like the Fitbit does.

[MakMak]

Ah, I see your problem. Are you using one of the smart tracker trackers? In that case, you can always delete the original exercise from Fitbit after entering it into MFP. Otherwise, the unless it's a step-based activity, the MFP estimate might be more accurate anyway. I've found that with the HR monitor, MFP is pretty close in it's estimates to the Fitbit activity calculation.

[Jennkhil]

i bet I am using th smart tracker. That's the option to track a specific type of exercise right? How do you delete the exercise from the Fitbit?

[MakMak]

Yes, that's right. You can delete by tapping and holding on an exercise. An option will come up to delete.

[AndrewFitbit]

Thanks @MakMak! 

@Jennkhil Are you expecting the activity from Fitbit to be listed in MFP or are you saying the data from the activity didn't sync over? Only the data from the activity will transfer, not the activity itself.