Manually logged activities not contributing to the calorie counter on dash

[KEJ86]

My calories burned counter doesn't seem to include the ~500 calories of non-step activities I've manually logged. To test this, I removed items from my manual log and saw that, indeed, my calorie counter was not affected. 

Is there a reason these are not factored into the overall calories burned metric on the dashboard? Seems odd, but perhaps there's some logic behind it that I'm not understanding...

[WendyB]

Interesting as I just logged the weights I just did and it added it to my Calories burn.

What Activity are you logging?

[KEJ86]

Wendy, I logged some yoga and some intense home rennovation work. My manually logged calories amounted to about 600 calories, yet my total calorie burn for the day (and it's almost the end of the day) is not even 1,300. I have a hard time believing my body's only burned 700 at-rest/every functioning calories? Based on my age/height/weight/gender I burn about 2000 calories a day without doing anything.

Is the calories burned number just what you've burned from moving/logging? Does it not include the basal rate?

I will say, when I delete the yoga/painting activities from my log my total calories burned do not change...

[KEJ86 · Accepted solution]

I figured it out! One of the manual activities I logged had a bug in it. The "Painting" activity (as in, painting rooms in one's house) is off by a tenth, so when I logged 490 calories in my activity log only 49 of the calories were added to my total calorie count. I replaced the activity with "Painting, outdoors" and the calories were successfully incorporated into the tally.

[WendyB]

So glad you got it figured out!