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Fitbit Charge 5 new user Calorie Burned question

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‎02-24-2023 22:40

‎02-24-2023 22:40

I know this has been asked plenty of times here but I just bought a new Fitbit Charge 5 today as I wanted to keep track of calories burned to calculate my accurate BMR cause i have quite a slow metabolism and losing weight for me is hard despite dieting/training. It calculates my BMR based on height and weight at around 1900 calories a day (5'10 at 94kg) there's no way thats true cause i gain weight on eating 2200 calories with working out every day easily burning over 300 calories.

I'm genuinely considering just returning this cause the one reason I got this seems like it's the one thing that it's genuinely useless at doing.

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‎02-25-2023 02:12 - edited ‎02-25-2023 02:14

‎02-25-2023 02:12 - edited ‎02-25-2023 02:14

Welcome to the Fitbit community, @wanijkesv!

Your Fitbit device will need some time to adjust to your habits. This is especially true for gathering information to calculate your resting calorie expenditure. To lose weight, it is also advisable to exactly log your food within the Fitbit app. I myself wanted to lose weight end of last year and tried that with the help of my Charge 5 and my Fitbit Aria scale. I'm 177 cm tall and started in October 2022 at around 84 kg:

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Since February 2023 I'm constantly staying at around 73 kg without feeling uncomfortable in any way. I'd give it a try.

Stefan
Charge, Charge HR, Blaze, Versa, Versa 2, Charge 5, Charge 6, Versa 4, Aria, Aria 2, Pixel 4a, Pixel 7
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