help menu

Join us on the Community Forums!

  • Community Guidelines

    The Fitbit Community is a gathering place for real people who wish to exchange ideas, solutions, tips, techniques, and insight about the Fitbit products and services they love. By joining our Community, you agree to uphold these guidelines, so please take a moment to look them over.

  • Learn the Basics

    Check out our Frequently Asked Questions page for information on Community features, and tips to make the most of your time here.

  • Join the Community!

    Join an existing conversation, or start a new thread to ask your question. Creating your account is completely free, and takes about a minute.

Not finding your answer on the Community Forums?

Cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

fitbit versus myfitnesspal for logging workouts

Replies are disabled for this topic. Start a new one or visit our Help Center.

‎01-25-2015 18:15

‎01-25-2015 18:15

I'm not sure if it's better to log burpees and the elliptical in myfitnesspal or to just let the fitbit track it.  I just got off the elliptical for the second time today, and my dashboard shows 108 active minutes, altough was on it for about two hours both times and did 100 burpees.  I don't get it.  I can't tell if my calories burned are accurate.  Any feedback would be appreciated.

Best Answer
0 Votes
2 REPLIES 2

‎01-26-2015 04:54

‎01-26-2015 04:54

I hope you are doing great today @SunsetRunner! It's great to hear that you are using your tracker and My Fitness Pal to track your daily progress. To answer your question, I suggest you manually log this activities on MFP in order to register accurate data, since the tracker is specifically designed to track stepped based activities while you move forward.

 

Give this a try and let me know if you have any other questions. Woman Happy

Melissa | Community Moderator, Fitbit

How are you fitbitting with your (pet) best friend? Show us!
Best Answer
0 Votes

‎01-26-2015 08:06

In response to Mcore

‎01-26-2015 08:06

Thank you! The problem I have with logging the calories in MFP is that the calorie burn registers too high. I was using a Polar heart rate monitor before getting the fitbit… wearing a strap, with a heart rate monitor attached, and I used the calorie burn calculated there for the MFP log. IF I use what MFP says I burn, I’ll end up eating much more food, thinking I’ve burned hundreds of calories more than I actually have. That’s where I got confused, but I see that MFP pulls calories burned from fitbit. I’ll see how it works out today. If it seems inaccurate, fitbit might not be the tracker for me, since I’m not a runner.

Thank you for the feedback.
paula
Best Answer
0 Votes