Weather to Walk

When I lived in the Northeast, our winters were horrible and our summers were humid and hot! I used to hibernate. Too much snow to work out in, too humid to bother.

But then I came up with an idea and it works great! WALK INSIDE! I drive to the mall or grocery store. It's either heated (winter) and snow and ice free OR it's air conditioned (summer). It's indoors and flat so I can get my steps in. No more excuses.

Malls near my home typically open early for mall walking and grocery stores stay open late for evening stepping. I used to do the loop at the mall, or snake around the aisles at the grocery. It wouldn't take long to get my workout in, and then drive home.

Anyway, this tip/trick helped me, maybe it'll help some of you.

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Back Up Plan when Fitbit does not sync to MFP

"My Fitbit Steps aren't syncing to MFP! When's that going to be fixed???"

Sound familiar?

If Fitbit has an update or MFP has an update or in the unlikely event both programs have a simultaneous update, often the result is the disconnect between the two apps.

Which often means your steps aren't being counted on your MFP app. And thus your calorie burn isn't being reflected.

What can you do???

1) Be Patient. This usually sorts itself out.
2) Disconnect the apps and reconnect. Usually this works well. If not.....
3) Uninstall the apps from your mobile device and reinstall then reconnect.

In the MEANTIME....

4) Manually sort out the calorie burn. Using a steps to calorie burn calculator (helpful links below), you can manually add in your calorie burn for the day.

As an example, here's a female that weighs 200 lbs, that did 8063 steps for her day. I rounded down to 8000 from this chart as it's best to be more conservative and plus/minus a couple hundred calories is okay.

STEP 1, select "exercise tab" and click ADD EXERCISE.

STEP 2, Select CREATE EXERCISE

STEP 3, CREATE A NEW EXERCISE. 

STEP 4, Give it a name, and fill in the calorie burn. If you want to fill in the rest, it's fine, but the important fields are highlighted here. To get your calorie burn, visit the calorie burn by steps link provided in this post. 

Here's some helpful links to help you do this:

• Walking Calculator Steps to Miles: https://www.verywellfit.com/pedometer-steps-to-calories-converter-3882595 and https://www.verywellfit.com/walking-calories-burned-by-miles-3887154 

• These are great if your pedometer shows you your mileage. Approximately 2000 steps = 1 mile. Want to be more exact, this link figures out how many steps to a mile based on your actual height! https://www.verywellfit.com/how-many-walking-steps-are-in-a-mile-3435916

• The Calorie Burn Calculator: https://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc This one allows you to choose the activity (pretty extensive list actually), enter the length of time and your weight and it calculates out how many calories you burned.

So, there you go. How to get the credit when your FITBIT isn't syncing to MFP. And remember, even if the apps aren't connecting, YOU still did the work and your body STILL GETS THE CREDIT.

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