Calories remaining doesn't account for sleep

[gtg947h]

The calories remaining function (particularly the value on the tile) works great, with one exception.

That value (and by extension, Fitbit's estimated calorie consumption for the day) seems to assume that you're going to maintain an awake state until midnight every night.  For those of us who go to bed at civilized hours, this is a problem.

In my particular case, going to bed around 2130-2230 or so means that this value is always going to be showing about 200 calories or so more than what I can actually eat that day.  I've figured this out by comparing the predicted vs. actual numbers over several days.  On the one occasion I did stay up until midnight, that number was almost dead-on. 

I would expect that the back end would be "smart" enough to know that my calorie consumption drops to sleep levels around 2200 every day and it should account for that, but maybe that's asking too much.

[LanuzaFitbit]

Hello @gtg947h.

Thanks for sharing your feedback and experience on the matter.

It is important to keep in mind that if your have an HR Fitbit, then it also uses your HR data to calculate your calories burnt. So if your HR goes down, as it does when you go to sleep, it will take that into consideration.

Having said that, maybe you could post about it in our Feature Suggestions board. Lots of different users could comment and vote on your suggestion to show their support. Be sure to read the FAQ to better understand how that board works.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

[gtg947h]

I'm using a Versa.  And I know it is going to see my actual calorie burn decline when I go to sleep as heart rate etc. drop.

The issue is that the projected calorie burn figures always assume I'm going to remain awake and active until midnight.  One would think given all the various predictive algorithms and big data and all that, that Fitbit would be able to "guesstimate" a bedtime and figure in that lower calorie burn rate at the end of the day, and use that to give me an accurate "calories remaining" figure.

To put it another way, if I ate enough food such that I exactly hit my calorie target as displayed around dinnertime (~1800) then come the next morning I'd find out that I exceeded my goal by about 200 calories, because Fitbit had assumed I'd maintain my average activity level until midnight when I actually went to bed at 2200. 

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@LanuzaFitbit wrote:

Hello @gtg947h.

Thanks for sharing your feedback and experience on the matter.

It is important to keep in mind that if your have an HR Fitbit, then it also uses your HR data to calculate your calories burnt. So if your HR goes down, as it does when you go to sleep, it will take that into consideration.