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How does the hydration/nutrition feature work?

Hi,

I did a ride with my Edge 830, and when looking at it in Garmin Connect it says I consumed 1100 calories and drank 2250ml water during my ride. I did not record any eating or drinking. I had one reminder very early in the ride to drink, but then no more during the rest of the ride. So how do I set it up? I like the reminder feature, because I always forget to drink during my rides, and usually arrive home with an untouched bottle of lukewarm water. But how do I stop it from automatically recording I eat or drink? Seems like an idiotic feature, since the Edge can't possibly know what I eat or drink on my ride!

Of course I already knew checking the Owner's manual was a waste of time, why don't they fire the moron(s) responsible for user manuals, like suggested other places on this forum? Is it so f***ing hard to write up a decent user manual?

Cheers,

Audun

0 Romolo Fevola over 4 years ago

Hello,

you can track your calorie and fluid intake when you save a ride.

To enable Nutrition/Hydration tracking:

Select Menu or
Select Settings
Select Activity Profiles
Select a profile
Select Nutrition/Hydration
Select Track Consumption to enable
Select the Duration of the ride (Alway, 1/2 hour or more...)
Select Volume to set units to ounces or milliliters and Bottle Size to adjust bottle size

When you're finished recording your ride, select Save Ride, and then scroll down on the Summary page.

You can select Calories Consumed or Fluid Consumed to enter your calorie and fluid intake.

Your calorie and fluid intake will then be saved to the summary for the ride and will also appear in the activity summary in Garmin Connect when you sync your device.

0 2685446 over 4 years ago

I think you are misunderstanding. That is what you should have consumed during your ride to make up for the calculated energy and fluid loss. It is a total of all the prompts it gave you during the ride. You can override it with actual data at the end if you know what you actually consumed. I do not know if this calorie calculation is skewed toward your height, weight and age data in your profile or any of the sensor data like speed etc, or even weather data is part of the calulations. I have a feeling it might be skewed toward something as the fluid and calorie intake prompts arent just equi-distant apart relative to time. I have a feeling that you just missed all the other prompts, mine bleeps and appears over the map so its not hard to miss! But I find the auto-disappear interval for the message a tad too long and it hides the map often at important moments. I agree with your User Interface comment, I find specialist apps tend to have poorly designed interfaces with convoluted menu structures.

0 Romolo Fevola over 4 years ago in reply to 2685446

Oh yes sorry for that...

0 8610471 over 2 years ago in reply to 2685446

If the hydration automatically recorded is the recommended quantity, then why does the quantity show as hydration consumed in the Garmin Connect app where it offers manual entry for recording/tracking daily fluid intake? Also, I am not conscious of the prompts, though I have inadvertently had my Garmin set to send them. Are they only visible when using the map? Thank you.