So is the calories burned accurate, even a little?

[fillion]

I walked 6.7 miles (15,600 steps) outside for my daily activity. I never paid attention to calories burned until yesterday. Says I burned 1,500 calories. That can't be right, right? I kno there's no definite way to know but how accurate is this estimate?

[Gr4ndp4]

Hi, @fillion Welcome to the community. You might be interested in my experience. Until recently (When the Pixel Watch 4 arrived), I recorded my daily swimming (2 hours) on a Garmin Venu 2 Pro & Fitbit Inspire 3. The Garmin gave me my lap count on my wrist while the Inspire 3 provided the data I needed to keep my Fitbit app running. The Garmin reported a calorie burn of about 950 Calories, while the Fitbit assessed it at 750 Calories. In addition to swimming every day, I weigh myself daily. As you will appreciate, the weigh-in is the gold standard and tells me if I'm eating more than I'm burning. The daily weigh-in also allows me to recognise "normal" fluctuations in my weight week in week out. My experience was that if I used the Fitbit calorie count, I was much more likely to be able to predict weight gain or weight loss accurately. My advice is to stick to the Fitbit figures. You should also note how your BMR is calculated This explains 

I hope this helps.

Cheers

[Kalilili6878]

I have been using Fitbit and Noom for about a month. I have been steadily losing weight while staying below my Fitbit calories burned. This has been very helpful since sometimes Noom gives a window that is a bit too low, or I am just worried about being on the upper end of the window. I don’t think Fitbit is perfect at tracking calories, there are some articles online talking about its issues, it has been extremely helpful for me!