Exercise question

First full day using carb manager. I walked 9+ miles with my Fitbit. After adding the exercise numbers, my calories changed to negative but my carbs were not adjusted. I would think they would have. I used “Doug’s Fitbit”, should I simply say I walked 20,000 steps instead, to see a change in carbs?

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  • Hi. I'm new to Carb manager and I, too, have questions about the syncing of devices.  As far as I can tell, by syncing the devices ALL IT DOES is show you your step count. It does not show you what exercises you engaged in (my garmin tracks  running, swimming, biking) and it does not calculate calories or recalculate your macros.  Now...I'm hoping someone will chime in and tell me I'm wrong and how to fix it, but that's what I'm seeing. So...it's not a very helpful, integrated sync.   Not at all like MyFitnessPal, for instance.

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    • Queen Bee
    • Queen_Bee
    • 5 yrs ago
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    I have the same situation. My Polar watch tracks all my activity, including steps. When I try to log my steps and calories burned, car Manager does accept the entry. However, it will sync Treadmill activity, and sync from Polar. Why not steps?

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    • Erin B
    • tigerlily873
    • 5 yrs ago
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    I can't even get CM to sync steps with my Garmin.  Any tips?  I tell my settings that I want it, then I I get the login to Garmin, which I do, and then...nothing.  Am I missing a step?  

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    • Madjmsmom
    • Madjmsmom
    • 4 yrs ago
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    Same here!  My fitbit wont sync and then I try to manually input steps, on app and computer, it is not accepted.  can we please have a fix for this??

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    • Thill
    • Thill
    • 4 yrs ago
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    My Fitbit syncs my steps with Carb Manager. Did you try going through the website instead of the app?  That's how I did it.

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    • indigo_crayon
    • 4 yrs ago
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    I am on day 4 with CM.  I have a Fitbit, it synced perfectly, I had no issues at all.  I am trying to determine if the daily activities truly  are cancelling the Net Carb, Net Calories......  when I do a 5k run & weights my totals are negative!!!! So am I to eat (consume) for food/fuel???  Wondering just how accurate the calculations are?  It was suggested I turn off the activity feature, which leads me to believe I must play attention to the food % consumed & NOT eat any more even if I am negative HELP!!! 

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    • indigo_crayon
    • 4 yrs ago
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    jritchie7734@gmail.com 

    i there.  I have a Fitbit.   It does show all my steps in CM & based on those daily steps it recalculated my totals.  Some days hen I am over 10k steps AND staying within my target % macros I ended up with a () negative totals.    I have asked the question just how accurate is the deduction, I do not want to over eat.

    as for any exercise other than the obvious step count, I manually add them & they are applied (also deducted) from my totals 

    i hope my reply helped 😉

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    • nana4125
    • nana4125
    • 4 yrs ago
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    I’m new too, new Fitbit Charge 2 and new to CM. I don’t see steps in the app on my phone or on my iPad.anywhere. I did turn on Fitbit on the website (not app) I may just not know where to look.

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  • nana4125 At the bottom of your daily log you will see exercise. Sync your fitbit to CM on the fitbit platform. Then it will sync automatically.  What you will find it the calories on the app and your fitbit don't match.  The app is deducting your food intake. If you want your macros to reduce with exercise you go into settings and look for it.  If you don't (which is common) set it to no.  This will prevent you from feeling confident to eat more :). 

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  • Me There is a place in setting to check yes or no if you want CM to deduct your macros to your calories burned on fitbit. The general rule is no because then you feel like you can eat more. :) 

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    • indigo_crayon
    • 4 yrs ago
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    debra06201374ad 

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    • nana4125
    • nana4125
    • 4 yrs ago
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    debra06201374ad thank you for your help. I am getting the hang of it bit by bit. Sharing is working.

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  • nana4125 Sharing is a good way to keep on track :).  It takes awhile. :)

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