Calories burned completely inaccurate

[Dsaint1884]

I have had the new Fitbit 6 for about a week. The calories it says I have burned are just completely inaccurate? I go for a 20 minutes walk, just round the park, and it says I've burned 250 calories? This is ridiculous? It makes using it for calorie counting, the main purpose of owning it, useless? 

This needs to be addressed with updates because otherwise I'll be asking for a refund so I can buy a Garmin as the product doesn't do its main function

[JohnnyRow]

Fitbit includes your BMR (basal metabolic calorie burn) calories in all calorie burn.  That may or may be significant here.  The main factors in calorie burn are weight and intensity, as measured by heart rate.

You apparently have some other way of knowing how many calories you should have burned on your walk.  Would you care to share your estimate of your calorie burn on the walk and the source?

[Sean_in_sd]

Time spent is not sufficient to determine what went wrong. Time, weight,
height,distance for example. Also, was Fitbit configured with physical
stats? And which wrist? Was hr measured way off? Or distance?

[Rosie152]

Just realised the error thanks to a post you wrote about checking my weight I had inputted. I had logged my latest weight thinking it was stone and lbs, when it was just lbs, so I was underweight by about 8 stone! Thank goodness for that.