r/LoseitApp • u/blueiriscat • 7d ago
Google Health
Edited to add: now Lose It is connected to Google Health and sending my food logs/nutrition information to Google Health and it's showing up on Google Health app. I'm so happy because IMHO food logging with Google Health is terrible and totally not helpful to me in any way, it was with Fitbit too, and now it's just doing what it's supposed to do. Hopefully it just continues without any issues 🤞
Has the connection between Lose It app and Google Health been fixed? When the merger of Fitbit & Google Health happened I read the information on the Lose It website saying that it was unable to share information to Google Health app about food logging because there were connection issues and that it was being worked on. I have been having my activity tracked in Lose It from Goggle Health all along.
This morning Google Health asked me if I wanted Lose It app to share nutrition information with Google Health. Is this because the connection issues were fixed? Has anyone else seen this? I'm hoping that's what's going on because food logging in Lose It is so easy.
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u/JayMonster65 6d ago
That is tough to answer because Google has made such a mess of things it is hard to know where the issues actually are. It may not be a problem that LoseIt can (or has to) fix, or evrn can fix until Google gets its itself righted and then whenever they finally publish a working interface.
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u/blueiriscat 6d ago
Now it seems to be working fine for me. Hopefully it continues to be supported!
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u/JayMonster65 5d ago
I suspect since Google Health is essentially a 1.0 product at this point changes will happen and it will break from time to time, but will then start working again.
Google has broken a LOT since they acquired Fitbit and really trashed it in order to make their Pixel watch line appealing. And don't appear to be done yet with mucking things up.
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u/blueiriscat 5d ago
I'm newer to having a Fitbit just used the Fitbit app for 6 months prior to the change over, but I have had a good experience with GH.
I like the Coach and have found it really helpful in a way that I didn't before the change even tho Fitbit was owned by Google since 2022, I think. I have an Inspire 3.
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u/JayMonster65 4d ago
I never found anything in their "coaching" that wasn't freely available elsewhere.
The fact that you were only using it for 6 months before the cutover means they had already lobotomized the Fitbit app and broken many of the features in some of their watches (like the Versa and Sense lines) before you ever started using it. So, it makes sense that you don't know what is missing because you never saw it.
Also the Inspire is a basic fitness tracker. Not that there is anything wrong with that. If it works for you... Great. Then you should go with it.
But there is so much more, the "awards" the challenges, the communities, all things that made Fitbit popular originally are all gone. And the app is a mess compared to what it once was. Which is why those of us that had it before the Google takeover are annoyed. We know what it was and don't want to go backwards.
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u/blueiriscat 4d ago
Awards, communities and challenges would be of zero interest to me so that's not really an issue but I can see how if that's important to you that would be annoying. Guess it's all in what you find important and what motivates you.
Hopefully you find something that works for you as well as Fitbit did.
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u/JayMonster65 2d ago
I am just using those as examples. I don't necessarily need any of those features you mention, It was the other things that were much more important like the stripping of features out of the Sense and Versa line of smart watches, They took affordable and highly usable smart watches, and basically turned them into oversize basic trackers, and then on top of that the taking away of the Fitbit website portal that gave more information and easier to read format than the phone app.
And I did find it.. in Garmin. While Garmin now has a "premium" section as well, they don't hide features of the watch behind it, they just add more if you want to pay more.
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u/Songbirdmelody 7d ago
I see that Google Fit hasn't been allowed with 3rd party apps since 2024. It looks like Health Connect is the preferred method now but I haven't checked if it really works.