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Calories burned too high

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‎10-23-2016 11:02

‎10-23-2016 11:02

I'm starting to doubt the number of calories my blaze is saying I burned during a run. For instance last week I walk/jogged for 2 hours and Fitbit says I burned 2150 calories with avg heart rate 165.

Putting my weight, time, distance, age, gender, and heart rate into other online calculators they are consistently 1000 calories less.

Which do I trust? Fitbit seems quite high. Anyone else with this problem?
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‎10-24-2016 06:55 - last edited on ‎03-05-2025 07:52 by Fitbit Moderator

‎10-24-2016 06:55 - last edited on ‎03-05-2025 07:52 by Fitbit Moderator

Hi there @Kairik.  Good to see you in the Community! 🙂

If you see your calories to be showing up high, the first thing I'd recommend checking would be your personal settings. Make sure your height, weight, age and gender have been correctly set as this is what determines your calorie burn or BMR. If you've already checked your personal information to be correct, you can try to restart your tracker by pressing and holding the left and lower right buttons for 10-12 seconds. This will make your tracker to reboot and once it turns back on, you can see if this makes any difference after a day or two.

Hope this helps and let me know if you need more help!

Ferdin | Community Moderator, Fitbit

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‎10-24-2016 17:41

‎10-24-2016 17:41

Fitbit calories are wrong. If that is important to you, look for something like the philips watch. If fitness is important and you want to improve your speed, stick with fitbit. The blaze is a very good looking device but HR and calories are not their strong point. HR is good for day to day use if you do not do interval training.

The customization of the blaze is awesome.

Just pick your poison

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