Runkeeper and fitbit Charge

[rikma]

Hi,

First off, I'm using Fitbit + MFP + Runkeeper at the moment. My main goal is weight loss.

I currently take long walks daily, but I'm not sure what I should do to only count the calories from my walks once, while still counting the steps I took.

So my goal (including my walks) is to go above 10,000 steps - so I need fitbit to track that.

I also want to track my walks (GPS tracking) so I need Runkeeper.

My health (food etc) is tracked in MFP - been using this for years, not prepared to switch over.

Do you have any idea whether MFP and Fitbit count my calories from walks twice since I use runkeeper and track the activity in fitbit at the moment.

Thanks 🙂

[rikma]

I've made some quick calculations and it seems like Fitbit is not counting the calories twice - if this is so, then I should not need to change anything, right?

I just need to log my walks using Runkeeper and make sure to press the track activity button on my Charge every time I do so.

[tastybrew]

YOu can always sync your walks from Runkeeper through MFP to Fitbit. This will give you a MFP activity in Fitbit with a time of even minutes. We used to be able to edit those activities to fix the time and add the distance but that option was removed a couple of months ago. So, depending on what your end goal is, syncing activities from Runkeeper may be sufficient. I do this and don't track any activities with my Force. Runkeeper is my authoritative source of run data.

[rikma]

Thanks first of all 🙂

OK, so should I remove my Runkeeper <-> Fitbit sync?

It looks as if it's got the calories right though, I just get the activities twice on my fitbit dashboard, but I don't really use that bit of it (as you said, Runkeeper is my main reference point for exercise too).

[tastybrew]

I use MFP as the gatekeeper and food logging tool. MFP syncs to Runkeeper and MFP syncs to Fitbit. I do not have Runkeeper syncing directly with Fitbit since it tends to confuse things as you suggested.