{"id":5480,"date":"2015-02-11T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5480"},"modified":"2015-02-10T23:14:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T23:14:21","slug":"my-activity-tracking-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/02\/my-activity-tracking-ecosystem.htm","title":{"rendered":"My activity tracking ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"

After I wrote my post on Monday about the Fitbit Charge HR<\/a>,\u00a0Dan Delaney (@Dan_Delaney<\/a>) and Gregg Robertson (@GreggRobertson5<\/a>) both tweeted me to say “try MyFitnessPal<\/a>“. Well, after putting aside the\u00a0really cringeworthy name (although “MyNetDiary<\/a>” is not any\u00a0better), I thought I’d give it a try and, so far, the experience has\u00a0been really positive.<\/p>\n

Not only does MyFitnessPal\u00a0seem to have a decent UK food database (albeit one that could do with some tidying up for consistency in naming – although that’s probably just my pedantry again) but the app is pretty good (just as good as\u00a0the MyNetDiary app I paid money for…) and, more importantly, the ecosystem of connected apps is pretty good (Strava<\/a> and Fitbit<\/a>\u00a0are both there, which is what I\u00a0need – but many more besides).\u00a0It’s growing too;\u00a0only yesterday Endomondo<\/a> emailed to say they were joining the “Under Armour Connected Fitness suite”, which includes MyFitnessPal. \u00a0The only slight downside (and it’s really not an issue when I think about the data that I need to keep, long term), is that MyFitnessPal bundles up\u00a0each meal into a summary when it passes it to Fitbit:<\/p>\n

@markwilsonit<\/a> Only thing with it is that you get a summary in Fitbit, not the original items. I prefer MFP log anyway pic.twitter.com\/fphXD3U6ek<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dan Delaney (@dan_delaney) February 9, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n