MyNetDiary and Google Health – integrate your diet and exercise

MyNetDiary online and mobile diet program helps you lose weight by tracking your food calories with the best nutrition database in the world. MyNetDiary can also keep track and estimate your activity calories based on activity type and duration.

Google Health is the new Google service connecting Fitbit trackers and Google Pixel watches. Your device estimates your daily calories burn, step count, sleep and more, and syncs them to your Google account.

By linking MyNetDiary with Google Health you get the best of both worlds:

1. MyNetDiary shows the activity calories, daily step count, body weight, sleep hours and resting heart rate as measured by your tracker.
2. Google Health shows your food calories and nutrients tracked by MyNetDiary. MyNetDiary also sends body weight measurements and water intake to Google Health.

Using Google Health with MyNetDiary helps to calculate daily calorie balance more accurately, see the actual balance of the calories you burn and eat during the day, and ultimately - helps you lose weight faster and smarter!

How does linking work?

Fitbit trackers and Google Pixel watches calculate your activity calories, daily step count, weigh-ins, and more, and sync them to your Google account. MyNetDiary keeps track of your foods logged online or via mobile apps. By creating a link, you allow MyNetDiary to talk to Google Health and exchange the following data:

• From Google Health to MyNetDiary
  • Exercise burned calories
  • Daily step count, floors and active minutes
  • Hours of sleep, including deep, light, REM and awake time
  • Resting heart rate
  • Body weight and body fat percentage
  • The amount of water you drink
• From MyNetDiary to Google Health
  • Daily foods - including food name, calories, fat, fiber, carbs, sodium and protein content.
  • Body weight and body fat percentage
  • The amount of water you drink

You can choose which data can be downloaded from (and uploaded to) Google Health. Use Google Health Settings page.

How do I link?

First of all, make sure you Sign Up for MyNetDiary Premium or Upgrade to MyNetDiary Premium. Google Health linking and many other premium MyNetDiary features are available with MyNetDiary Premium membership.

Step 1: Set up your tracker with a Google account

Please set up your Fitbit or Pixel device with your Google account as explained at the Google Health Help Center.

Before going further, please verify that your device is set up correctly: open the Google Health app and check if you see the calories and other information uploaded from your device.

Step 2: Start linking at MyNetDiary

On the MyNetDiary website go to the Settings tab, then click Apps and Devices - Google Health Settings.

Click “Link to Google Health” button. You will be redirected to the Google website.

Step 3: Complete linking at Google

MyNetDiary redirects you to the Google website, so that you can authorize MyNetDiary to access your Google Health data. Sign in with the Google account your device is connected to, review the requested permissions and click "Allow".

After clicking "Allow" button, you will be returned to MyNetDiary website with message indicating that you have linked MyNetDiary to Google Health.

Exchange details

What happens after I link?

After you link to Google Health, MyNetDiary performs automatic data exchange within several minutes after you enter foods in MyNetDiary, one exchange per hour. If you don't log foods for some day, MyNetDiary will download your Google Health data during the night. In the case you do not log foods in MyNetDiary for 5 contiguous days, MyNetDiary stops exchanging your data with Google Health. When you resume logging foods, MyNetDiary resumes Google Health data exchanges.

If you want to expedite the exchange of today's data, go to the Settings/Apps and Devices/Google Health Settings page and click the "Verify link" button.

MyNetDiary exchanges last 2 days of data after the link is established or restored.

When your device syncs to Google Health, MyNetDiary receives notification from Google within several minutes and automatically downloads new data.

Google Health exercise vs. tracker calories

Google Health download creates "Google Health exercise" entry at MyNetDiary Exercise, which is different from the daily total calories you see in the Google Health app. MyNetDiary exercise includes only the calories burned in addition to normal lifestyle determined by your personal activity level. This is why MyNetDiary subtracts Weight Maintenance Calories calories from the downloaded total calories:

We recommend setting MyNetDiary Activity Level to Sedentary, because "Google Health exercise" includes only calories above your activity level, so Sedentary level in MyNetDiary gives you the most exercise calories.

Google Health body measurements

In addition to exercise calories, your tracker counts daily step count and may determine hours of sleep and resting heart rate. Fitbit Aria scale measures body weight and body fat percentage.

MyNetDiary downloads all these measurements from Google Health. To see the downloaded measurements in MyNetDiary, go to MyNetDiary Daily Details page and click “Select Measurements to Track” link.

Catching up on last several days

In the case you would like to repeat Google Health download for the last 2 days, please use the "Verify Link" button.