Calorie Burned with Blaze Incorrect

[tdudley07]

Ok, so I went from a Fitbit One to a Fitbit Blaze at the end of last month. While I love my new Fitbit Blaze the calorie burned is extremely off. For example, on February 17th, I walked 6,990 steps with my FitBit One and burned 3,222 calories for the day. However, on March 9th, I walked 7,110 steps with my Fitbit Blaze (only a difference of 120 steps) and it said I burned 5,350 calories (a difference of 2,128 calories). I know that Blaze has the HR but it can't make that much of a difference. The main problem with this is that it is sending my LoseIt! app (which takes the data from Fitbit and calculates if I receive bonus calories against what I ate). When I had the one I had no problem balancing this data out now since getting the blaze it has sent everything askew. On days where I all I do is sit at my desk and work I am now getting bonus calories on LoseIt. It makes tracking things difficult. What should I do?

[Kodom_123]

I am having this issue also

[Ace0389]

I find that my calories are also off... this is the first time I've owned a heart rate one but it seems excessive

[SunsetRunner]

I am having the same issue to . Calories burned is way out of touch. based on my eating habbits my calorie intake is not that high. I burn , according to fitbit 4420 calories today  , with 22295 steps and I know my calorie intake is not that high. At this rate I should reach my goal of looseing 20 LBS in less than a month. anybody have suggestions out there or do I set my calories burned at zero ? My wife has the apple sport watch and it seem in tune regarding exercise and calories burned.

[AngelaMa]

Welcome to the Forums @tdudley07, @Ace0389 and @SunsetRunner! It's great to have you here. @Kodom_123 I would like to share this amazing post from @SebringDon that will provide you information about how Fitbit trackers calculate the caloric burn. Also I would like to ask if you are manually logging an acivity or using a third party app to log your exercise? The calorie burn estimate that Fitbit provides takes into account your BMR, the activity recorded by your tracker, any activities you log manually and your heart rate. 

@tdudley07 I would also suggest to review your tracker's settings for your dominant hand setting since: 

• The dominant wrist setting decreases the sensitivity of step counting and should reduce any over counting of steps when your body is not moving.
• The non-dominant wrist setting increases the sensitivity of step counting and should reduce any under counting of steps. Non-dominant is the default.

Let me know if this helps! 

[Kodom_123]

No I am not entering any workouts from anywhere. I just let my Fitbit do its thing.
I have had many different fitbits over the years and it seems like my blaze is the only one I've ever had issues with giving me way too many calories burned throughout the day. It is set to my non-dominant hand and that's where I wear it. I've checked a lot of my other settings and they seem fine. I may try changing to dominant setting but still wear on non-dominant side. I feel like the step count is fairly accurate but the calorie count is wayyyy over

[AngelaMa]

Hello @Kodom_123 thanks for your reply! I would really appreciate if you can provide me a screenshot of your caloric burn so I can further investigate the issue. 

Catch you later! 

[Kodom_123]

Sure I took several, I just have to figure out how to post them lol

[AngelaMa]

Hello @Kodom_123 if you are using a mobile device, you can find a workaround to post your screenshot on this post. 

Looking forward to your reply! 🙂 

[Kodom_123]

ok so I took a few different SS of days when I didn't do any exercise and just had a normal day. I am a stay at home mom and I am always up and after my toddler but we also sit during the day some etc. 

on this day, I didn't do anything more than maybe a trip to the store and go about my household chores for the day. But it says I burned over 4,000 calories! 

on this day I did Zumba for about 50 minutes and went to the store then a few household chores later in the day. 

Here is my week view of daily burn for last week 

This is a day when I hardly did much at all...it still says I burned over 3,000 calories. My heart rate seems to stay within a normal resting range when at rest and doesn't read too high even during exercise. if anything I feel like I had higher HR numbers with my chest strap than I get with my Blaze. 

using Scooby Workshop calorie calculator by BMR is around 2,100 and my TDEE is only about 2,500 on days I don't work out. and *maybe 3,200 on days I do Zumba. There's no way I am burning 5,000 calories  I get huge calorie adjustments sent over to my Fitness Pal so I have to just ignore it, turn it off or readjust myself. 

I would love to figure out what the issue is and how I can fix it

[bbarrera]

@Kodom_123 you definitely want to begin by restarting your Blaze three times.

What is your Heart Rate (HR) setting? Auto or on?

[Kodom_123]

I think it is Auto

[Kodom_123]

@bbarrera ok I just did it three times in a row.
 It buzzed and showed the fb logo but it says on the instructions that restarting would delete saves notifications and all my texts are still on it so I'm not sure if it did the reset.  

[bbarrera]

let us know how calorie estimates look over the next couple of days

[AngelaMa]

Thanks for your cooperation @bbarrera! 🙂 @Kodom_123 thanks for posting your screenshots! 🙂 Since you mentioned you are using MFP I would like to ask if you enter the activities on both apps or only on your Fitbit account?

Keep me posted!

[Kodom_123]

@AngelaMa no I don't enter any activity I have just always let my for its do their thing so I just let my blaze send any adjustment.
Restarting my blaze hasn't really helped. I'm still getting super high calorie burns even on days that I don't get all my steps in I will have close to 4K cals burned. I can get some more screen shots if you'd like.

[Stant0407]

Having the same problem here. Posting for updates.

[rmetsch]

I'm having the exact opposite problem. My steps are way down, and my calories burned during exercise are way down.