Fitness Minutes Tracked With FitBit

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2/10/13 1:50 A

Great! I'm glad it's working right for you now. Also, I find that I have to recheck the day before and delete fitbit entries again. :-/ It's certainly not ideal right now, so I hope that SP and Fitbit eventually get it better set up.

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2/9/13 9:27 P

Thanks very much for the info.....I wasn't properly logged in.Now that I am it is doing its job.

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2/8/13 11:49 P

Okay, New, take a look at this first picture: http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_photo_gallery_enlarge.asp?id=4544462

Do you see where it says "Sync Fitbit for Today" towards the bottom of the picture? You click on that before you go to bed or take off your Fitbit for the day.

Now, then if you scroll down, you'll see something like this: http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_photo_gallery_enlarge.asp?id=4544463

You see how it says "Fitbit Entry," then 29 minutes, and then 275 calories burned? Right next to that is the "Remove" button. Just click that.

I hope that helps!

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2/8/13 10:31 P

Sorry DUCK, couldn't find the 'fitness section' or little button. Could you explain it more to me, please ?
Barbara

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2/8/13 10:07 P

thanks so very much for the info Duckturnup, will do now

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2/8/13 5:55 P

NewMeToday2012, at the end of the day, before you go to bed, go into the fitness section on SP, and click the little button that says "sync your fitbit." After you do that, scroll down to the fitness log part, and it will say how many calories burned according to fitbit. Click the remove button on the right side.

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2/8/13 4:23 P

how does one erase at the end of the day ? Don't understand how FB works, just got one.

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2/7/13 1:53 P

I just got a fitbit, and I had been wondering about this. I knew that I wasn't really burning that many calories! I've decided to just manually log my active minutes from the fitbit site at the end of the day and then delete the automatic fitbit entry.

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1/25/13 10:07 P

Fantastic on those 20000 days ---haven't hit that yet- -but I will!

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1/25/13 8:52 P

I work 1 full-time job and a 2nd almost full-time job(family business), which are both desk jobs and I have 3 kids. I don't always have time for a "formal" workout. So instead I park at the back of the parking lot rather than up front close to the door. I'll walk to a coworker's desk vs emailing them. I take the stairs instead of the elevator. When away from my desk, I'll walk an extra floor or use the restroom on a different floor.
I've always been boggled at how to track the extra activity throughout my day. I love that the FitBit tracks for me! I realize my fitness minutes and calories burned may be inflated but I focus more on my number of steps. Watching my steps throughout the day causes me to want to move more.......gotta get that number to 10,000+!!! I've even had a couple of 20,000+ days!

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1/21/13 3:26 P

Thanks for looking into this. I would LOVE an option to not have my fitbit steps translate into fitness minutes. I, too, have been going back and deleting my fitbit entries, but love having my accounts connect... maybe a way to chose what syncs and where?

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1/16/13 5:02 P

I am glad that it isn't just me in regard to the fitness minutes between spark and fitbit. I am very motivated having my fitbit synced to spark and honestly, I see them as both necessary to my fitness journey. I would be lost without either one. I have just learned to live with the fact that my fitness minutes are way higher than I planned....and enjoy the sparkpoints that come with that. I am also glad to hear that will be fixed eventually too.

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1/2/13 3:44 P

Glad to hear this info---I have not done any "real" exercise yet and FitBit has me down at 373 minutes so far---and no way has by activities all been exercise---steps, yes, but not real fitness minutes---that is the only drawback I see to using this.

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1/1/13 10:21 A

Hi,

There isn't currently a way to do that, but you can choose to edit your fitbit minutes entry to reflect only the activities you prefer. I have passed this feedback along!

Edited by: ANNE_SP at: 1/1/2013 (10:21)

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1/1/13 10:07 A

Thought I would bump this post...

I set a 1000 minute fitness goal each month and don't really want all those fitbit minutes added in. I only want intentional fitness minutes going towards my goal. Is there any way to only sync my fitbit steps and not minutes?

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12/5/12 1:07 A

I have the same concern. I really like having the number of steps I take each day imported automatically, but I don't like the inflated fitness minutes or calories burned numbers. If I have to go back every day and delete an entry, that completely negates the convenience of automatic syncing - I'd be better off just to enter my steps each day manually as if it were a normal pedometer. I hope SP and Fitbit can create the option to sync just steps.

You're not alone!

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12/1/12 9:41 A

Hi,

Thanks for your patience with this! You are seeing that due to the way the fitbit tracks your activity and steps. The only suggestion I have at this point is that if you feel it isn't quite accurate, you can always remove the fitbit entry and manually enter your activity (which won't affect your steps in any way, just your calorie burn).

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11/30/12 1:56 P

Thanks very much :)

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11/30/12 8:30 A

Hi,

I just want you to know that I am looking into this for you and will let you know what I find. Thanks for your patience!

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11/29/12 9:30 A

Curious - this mornign I have 11 fitness minutes tracked for a total of 129 exercise calories and it's only 9:29 (and I work a desk job) - I'm afraid this is a little (ok a lot) overstated. I'd have to be practically sprinting to burn 129 calories in 11 minutes, wouldn't I??? I'm just wondering if anyone else has concerns about the amount of fitness being synced to SparkPeople with the fitbit?