Charge 6 overestimating exercise calories

[glassyo]

I just got a fitbit charge 6 and, like all the non original fitbits I've had before it, it's overestimating exercise calories. I'm 59, 5'2" and 105 lbs so there's just no way my tdee is 2900 with the exercise I do even if I rarely stop moving as opposed to my garmin which came in at 2400ish. My bmr barely clocks in at 1000 and my exercise isn't all that strenuous.

My fitbit stats are correct and so is the time zone. It's on my non dominant hand and I have that as a setting too (the garmin lives on my ankle because most of my walking is indoors now while playing on my tablets or working). My meal plan is set as sedentary.

It does well with counting steps. Fitbit was 46,000 and garmin was 98,000.

I have it set to automatically calculate stride length and I take a lot of teeny tiny steps because of the walking dvds I do.

No change with heart rate detection on or off.

I don't have it syncing with mfp since I still have my garmin syncing so I'm adding my eaten calories with fitbit manually.

BMR calories alone are fine. I didn't wear it for a day to test that.

Any tips or ideas? I have until May 17th to return it.

Thanks for any help.

[JohnnyRow]

Looking back through your posts, I see you have complained about at least 5 different Fitbit models overestimating your calorie burn.  I have to wonder what is your basis for saying these are all wrong?  Have you had any Fitbit models that you thought were accurate?   Having found so many wrong, do you really keep expecting to find the next one to fit your accuracy expectations?

[glassyo]

Well, maybe it was the year I used the original chargehr and went by the number it gave me and even with a weekly deficit of 3500ish calories, I gained and lost the same pound.

The first, original fitbit is the only one that's been spot on (which I know is a rarity in activity trackers), the One it replaced overestimated but not by much. Then there was the original chargeHR, altaHR, and possibly the zip which I thought would be better since it was going back to basics but I was wrong. But you went through my whole 10 post history so you'd already know that 🙂

And, yes, I think after the 5 years since I last used a fitbit, something might have changed. Tips to make it more accurate, letting it "learn" you (I'm not sure that's necessary anymore but it was in the past as far as I remember) and the steps to take to do that, stuff like that.