how do I zero out calories each morning

[SunriseRun133]

How do I zero out calories each morning to start they day's count at zero?

[CarolS]

Your Fitbit does this automatically at midnight each night.

[Cybertekkno]

The calories reset to zero a midnight every night.  The calorie amount you are seeing when you wake up in the morning is the approximate number you burned while you were sleeping based on your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate), as you burn calories just from being alive.

[Fitrookie]

I have same question. I woke up this morning and my fitbit charge says I burned 356 calories. Is that right?

[lonerchick]

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@Fitrookie wrote:
I have same question. I woke up this morning and my fitbit charge says I burned 356 calories. Is that right?

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Those are your calories burn by just being alive.

[SunsetRunner]

When exercising (walking, running, weight lifting, cycling,..) depending on the activity and the heart rate, more calories are burned than in rest 'cause of the specific activity and how intense it is for our body to do a certain activity.

[TandemWalker]

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@Fitrookie wrote:
I have same question. I woke up this morning and my fitbit charge says I burned 356 calories. Is that right?

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Your biological clock works 24/7. So when you wake up in the morning and see calories burned, by and large those calories represent what you burnt to maintain life (e.g., your heart and lung functions, etc.); plus any additional calories burned overnight due to movement or restlessness during sleep.

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[mrsmagoo]

All other options have zeroed out but the calories remains.  It's been 3 weeks.

[mrsmagoo]

I don't burn 776 calories at night.

[WendyB]

@mrsmagoo  As explained before it is your BMR nothing is wrong with your fitbit

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The calories burned are BMR calories. Your fitbit also calculates calories burned for your BMR.  You burn calories just by being alive!  Even Sleeping. Fitbit includes these burned calories in it's calorie calculations, so even if you did not wear the fitbit, you'll still burn these calories.

Read this http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/How-does-Fitbit-know-how-many-calories-I-ve-burne...

To Learn more about BMR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate

[aaron88]

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@mrsmagoo wrote:

I don't burn 776 calories at night.

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It's actually highly likely that you do - or at least fairly close.  Go here - http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmr-calculator - end enter your information.  Take the result, divide by 24 and then multiply by how many hours you sleep.  According to that, I burn about 653 calories every night, so 776 seems perfectly plausible to me.

[Heybales]

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@mrsmagoo wrote:

I don't burn 776 calories at night.

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Let's see, wake up at say 7 am.

776 / 7 hrs = 110.86 x 24 hrs = 2661 total daily burn estimated.

Now, if you have a lot of weight to lose, that could indeed be your BMR level burn. Rather high, but possible.

You likely have in your Food plan the option for Personalized, otherwise known as calorie estimation.

You are given a calorie burn per hr based on historical daily average. So Fitbit sees you normally burning about 2600 daily, and figures per hour is 110, until a sync proves otherwise.

But after your device syncs, that should adjust down to your BMR level burn, what your daily graph shows you burning during sleep every 5 minutes. Every looked at that graph of daily burn?

You might confirm on steps that there is none during the time between midnight and waking up. Perhaps big sleep walking and getting lots of steps - or bad dreams and lots of leg kicking counting as steps.