Good day!
Am withing to track my macro consumption more these days especially as now taking creatine and a pure protein source. Have enjoyed using Cronometer but the fact they won’t open up a API for integration it’s time to say good-bye.
What are you experienced food loggers using with intervals.icu please ?
TIA
Seeing as nobody has responded yet… There are quite a few:
Note that neither one of these exposes its own data as API.
I use MyFitnessPal → Garmin. I believe historically they are pretty well married. Getting the Garmin → MFP direction for exercise/step calories works well for me too. I manually correct for the fact that this does double-count resting calories.
I get my own data via Garmin → Garmindb → local files / sqlite DBs. This seems to be pretty complete. In the monitoring data I see the daily kcals I log in MFP, as well as all the types of calories Garmin itself tracks (i.e. active kcals, resting kcals and so on). No macros though. Garmindb does not use the Garmin APIs as far as I know but scrapes the Garmin Connect web site; so it possibly sees or gets different stuff than intervals.icu would get via API.
I have configured intervals.icu to fetch my complete data from Garmin Connect, but a quick check shows kcal is empty. So that doesn’t seem to work, or I need to set some flag somewhere. I don’t need it, I do what I need with my own automation. Regarding food macros, none of the connections you can activate in the intervals.icu settings advertises those. Don’t know if there are other food services you can marry to intervals.icu which have those fields.
Just a note on “CM doesn’t have an API so it’s time to move on” - it does seem to me that most if not all of those apps and services close down their (our) data as hard as possible. Makes bizarre sense from a business perspective - once they have you in their ecosystem for a while they know that you will leave less likely if it’s a huge hassle to take your data with you. If you find something that is different, do let us know.
N.B. I tried Cronometer for a few days a few months ago but found its handling of resting calories over the day an absolute atrocity. There are old forum topics about that, and I have even chatted up the support as I found it hard believe that it is as it is (it counts up over the day which makes it impossible to plan ahead). Also they do seem to do some weird mangling of the Garmin imported activity calories which didn’t match the real numbers (possibly just using some arbitrary 70% rule or so, can’t remember). They ensured me that is for the best and it’s working as designed. So it’s probably a “me” problem, but still.