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input calorie intake?

Former Member over 14 years ago

On the HEALTH tab there are a number of fields for inputting weight, body fat, etc.

I would really love to be able to manually input my daily calorie intake so that I can figure out my daily calorie deficit. However, the daily-calorie-intake field is greyed out.

There's a note on the page about how the TANITA scale. Putting aside the question of how on earth a scale could possibly know how many calories you consumed that day--and even if it did, I don't have the $250+ to drop on that--is there another way to input the daily calorie intake.

My other option is to copy the Garmin exercise totals into the Livestrong website.

0 BBECKER39 over 14 years ago

http://www.tanita.co.uk/index.php?id=33

The Daily Calorie Intake feature on selected Tanita Body Fat Monitors is able to automatically calculate the number of calories you need to consume within a 24-hour period in order to maintain your current weight, whenever you monitor your body fat.

This is not a measurement of the number of calories you have consumed, but a calculation of the number of calories needed to maintain weight based on the physiological readings taken by the Tanita scale.

0 Former Member over 14 years ago

aha, that's how they do it.

back to my original question then. is there a way in Garmin Connect to log the # of calories I have consumed (i.e. eaten) in a day? I don't mean anything fancy like looking up the nutritional value of a Twinkie, just a field to enter number-of-calories-burned-that-day.

I don't see that anywhere, just thought I'd check...

0 BBECKER39 over 14 years ago

This is not currently a feature of Garmin Connect.