I use a Garmin Fenix 6 to track my exercise and daily activity. I log water as well as link it to MFP for calories consumed. Based on my goals and activities it gives me a calorie budget which I should stay within each day.
1st question)
I see that this goal is available from fitbit but I don’t see it in Garmin. I wear a Charge 5 on my other wrist so I don’t mind using fitbit but I trust Garmin’s view of how many calories I burned since it has more data (due to GPS and HRM-Pro chest strap).
2nd question)
Net calories has a problem in which it fails open, that is: if I do nothing I will always win the net calories goal since my budet is >0 and by default I log no calories in MFP. Should I have another goal which is once a day confirm I logged all food in MFP? (quickly running out of my 3 free goals, )
Thanks, I think something like that would work normally but Fitbit net calories is special goal type.
Instead of Do Less, the idea is to have a Net Calories count of below 0 (Calories In - Calories Out). I guess a pessimistic datapoint would be a large positive number like 3000 (that could be configurable).
However, since the data is external, I don’t think I can enable pessimistic presumptive datapoints. At least for me, the option is disabled.
One other realization is that one problem I have is logging my food consistently at the beginning of the day but then falling off in the evening (usually with a meal that’s hard to log or very big…). If I only log a partial day then I’ll just end up with a really negative score which is not honest.
Ooh, it’s fancy! I think your idea of a “logged-everything” goal is super reasonable, then — definitely interested to hear if anyone else has ideas tho!
Bumping this since the original point has become more important as fitbit’s calories estimations have gotten worse while Garmin’s has gotten better.
Is is it possible to update the Garmin integration to support more data types? Right now I’ve made a manual goal but it’d be great if it can be automatic.
Since Garmin doesn’t give API access very easily it’s also impossible to make this myself using something like IFTTT.
I’m guessing those integration bits aren’t open source or I’d even try to help out myself.
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