Calories burnt too high ?

[Mattgtfc]

Hi all, ive just got myself a fitbit blaze and so far im loving it. However, my only query is on the calories burnt. Im currently on 3071 calories burnt which seems really high to me. Ive read about BMR and from what i can tell online mine should be about 2200 ish (not really sure). But i cant find anywhere on fitbit that tells me what mine is. That would mean ive burnt 800ish calories extra. I went for a run which was 300 calories, so 500 calories just from walking 6000 steps roughly during the day ? Is this correct ? I know its a long one but if anyone could help that would be great. Thanks all 🙂

[SteveH]

Fitbit doesn't explicity show you your BMR calories but as these are burnt at a constant rate 24 hours a day, you can see what your calorie burn is for a 15 minute period when you are asleep and multiply that up.

As you know your BMR calories (and activity calories) depend on your profile settings for weight, age etc so it's hard to say whether yours is correct but your numbers don't sound extreme in any way.

[SunsetRunner]

Your Blaze can only "guess" how many calories you have used.  So many different things involved.  It would use you HR and possible your personal data like weight to determine.  All trackers do this one way or another.

[Mattgtfc]

Hi, thanks for the replies, my only thing is i burnt 3300 yesterday, i went for a 2 mile run which said i burnt 400 calories. I used an online BMR calculator which says its 2000, so 1300 extra calories minus the 400, that means that just doinh general everyday activities ive burnt 900 calories ? Seems really high to me. Thing is i track my food and am trying to lose weight and obviously its telling me to eat more food based on calories burnt 😄 thanks for the help guys