Guest guest Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 i linked my fitbit to MFP yesterday and started using the MFP food log. wow, you ladies are so right.... it is soooo much easier than the fitbit food log. at the end of the day i checked my deficit... i *think* that MFP is figuring it out correctly. when i compared my deficit on fitbit.com it was close to MFP but i have had to set fitbit.com to use a much faster goal (1.5 pounds per week) than MFP (1 pound per week). jen - you do not have to press the button on your fitbit for workouts if you dont want to. the fitbit will still record your steps and calculate your calorie burn as it always does, and will feed that info to MFP upon syncing. the problem is that fitbit may not calculate calorie burn properly for non-step-based workouts. or it might. it just all depends. in any case it will calculate some sort of calorie burn that can be used in conjunction with calorie intake. if you want a more accurate cal burn number for a particular activity, then you can wear a HRM. press the button on the HRM and on the fitbit at the same time and have them both record an activity. then compare. if the HRM has a higher cal burn then you can over-ride it in the MFP activity log, where you enter the cal burn, length of time of workout and the start time of the workout. the start time of the workout comes from pressing the button on the fitbit and creating an activity record on fitbit.com ensure that your HRM, fitbit.com and MFP.com have the same weight !! this is important. right now MFP does not sync your weight back and forth to fitbit (but apparently they are working on it). :*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 All I can say is "I told you so!" Carolyn in regards to MFP being easier to log food than the fitbit. I will continue to start/stop my fitbit for walks, volleyball/wallyball and other cardio because I want to know how many steps, miles and calories burned for that particular exercise. I especially like doing it when I walk to see if my pace is improving or not. The pace measurement tells me how long it would take me to walk a mile at that pace. I don't have a HRM and I really can't afford or want to get one now. I couldn't wear it playing sports and the fitbit is helping to find out how much I move when I play them, so that's good enough for me. Besides volleyball and wallyball are both anaerobic activities but it's good to know that I burn lots of calories when I do them.. JenSubject: Re: ftbit and MFPTo: exercisevideos Date: Monday, March 5, 2012, 8:34 AM i linked my fitbit to MFP yesterday and started using the MFP food log. wow, you ladies are so right.... it is soooo much easier than the fitbit food log. at the end of the day i checked my deficit... i *think* that MFP is figuring it out correctly. when i compared my deficit on fitbit.com it was close to MFP but i have had to set fitbit.com to use a much faster goal (1.5 pounds per week) than MFP (1 pound per week). jen - you do not have to press the button on your fitbit for workouts if you dont want to. the fitbit will still record your steps and calculate your calorie burn as it always does, and will feed that info to MFP upon syncing. the problem is that fitbit may not calculate calorie burn properly for non-step-based workouts. or it might. it just all depends. in any case it will calculate some sort of calorie burn that can be used in conjunction with calorie intake. if you want a more accurate cal burn number for a particular activity, then you can wear a HRM. press the button on the HRM and on the fitbit at the same time and have them both record an activity. then compare. if the HRM has a higher cal burn then you can over-ride it in the MFP activity log, where you enter the cal burn, length of time of workout and the start time of the workout. the start time of the workout comes from pressing the button on the fitbit and creating an activity record on fitbit.com ensure that your HRM, fitbit.com and MFP.com have the same weight !! this is important. right now MFP does not sync your weight back and forth to fitbit (but apparently they are working on it). :*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Jen, it sounds like your method is working fine. I think the biggest help comes from being able to see calorie burn vs. food calls. That's the path, right there. All I can say is " I told you so! " Carolyn in regards to MFP being easier to log food than the fitbit. I will continue to start/stop my fitbit for walks, volleyball/wallyball and other cardio because I want to know how many steps, miles and calories burned for that particular exercise. I especially like doing it when I walk to see if my pace is improving or not. The pace measurement tells me how long it would take me to walk a mile at that pace. I don't have a HRM and I really can't afford or want to get one now. I couldn't wear it playing sports and the fitbit is helping to find out how much I move when I play them, so that's good enough for me. Besides volleyball and wallyball are both anaerobic activities but it's good to know that I burn lots of calories when I do them.. Jen Subject: Re: ftbit and MFPTo: exercisevideos Date: Monday, March 5, 2012, 8:34 AM i linked my fitbit to MFP yesterday and started using the MFP food log. wow, you ladies are so right.... it is soooo much easier than the fitbit food log. at the end of the day i checked my deficit... i *think* that MFP is figuring it out correctly. when i compared my deficit on fitbit.com it was close to MFP but i have had to set fitbit.com to use a much faster goal (1.5 pounds per week) than MFP (1 pound per week). jen - you do not have to press the button on your fitbit for workouts if you dont want to. the fitbit will still record your steps and calculate your calorie burn as it always does, and will feed that info to MFP upon syncing. the problem is that fitbit may not calculate calorie burn properly for non-step-based workouts. or it might. it just all depends. in any case it will calculate some sort of calorie burn that can be used in conjunction with calorie intake. if you want a more accurate cal burn number for a particular activity, then you can wear a HRM. press the button on the HRM and on the fitbit at the same time and have them both record an activity. then compare. if the HRM has a higher cal burn then you can over-ride it in the MFP activity log, where you enter the cal burn, length of time of workout and the start time of the workout. the start time of the workout comes from pressing the button on the fitbit and creating an activity record on fitbit.com ensure that your HRM, fitbit.com and MFP.com have the same weight !! this is important. right now MFP does not sync your weight back and forth to fitbit (but apparently they are working on it). :*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 Does anyone have both fitbit and gowearfit/BodyBugg? I have the later, and I wonder how they compare. I must confess, wearing the armband to work in the hot Texas summer is a bit tacky...plus the band gets pretty ragged looking fast and I keep having to replace them. I of course plan on donning it as soon as possible post-birth anyway though. a > > i linked my fitbit to MFP yesterday and started using the MFP > food log. > wow, you ladies are so right.... it is soooo much easier than > the fitbit food log. > at the end of the day i checked my deficit... i *think* that MFP > is figuring it out correctly. when i compared my deficit on > fitbit.com it was close to MFP but i have had to set fitbit.com > to use a much faster goal (1.5 pounds per week) than MFP (1 pound > per week). > > jen - you do not have to press the button on your fitbit for > workouts if you dont want to. the fitbit will still record your > steps and calculate your calorie burn as it always does, and will > feed that info to MFP upon syncing. > > the problem is that fitbit may not calculate calorie burn > properly for non-step-based workouts. or it might. it > just all depends. in any case it will calculate some sort of > calorie burn that can be used in conjunction with calorie intake. > > if you want a more accurate cal burn number for a particular > activity, then you can wear a HRM. press the button on the HRM > and on the fitbit at the same time and have them both record an > activity. then compare. > if the HRM has a higher cal burn then you can over-ride it in the > MFP activity log, where you enter the cal burn, length of time of > workout and the start time of the workout. the start time of > the workout comes from pressing the button on the fitbit and > creating an activity record on fitbit.com > > ensure that your HRM, fitbit.com and MFP.com have the same weight > !! this is important. right now MFP does not sync your weight > back and forth to fitbit (but apparently they are working on it). > > :*carolyn. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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