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Okay, I see.
First, wondering how you are judging calorie burn inaccurate, especially if heart rate accurate, since calories burned is based on heart rate. I wonder if you are just thinking of calories burned in workouts and forgetting about BMR calories. Fitbit includes BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) calories which are the calories you are always burning just to stay alive. These typically are more than half the calorie burn per day.
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For step count, the way to check it is to go somewhere you can walk preferable a near straight line, probably outside, stand still a few seconds, check step count on watch, walk regularly counting steps to at least 100, then stop and after a few seconds check watch again and compare watch count to what you counted. I expect you will be within 1 or 2.
Now throughout the day, you won't get quite that accuracy because it is on your wrist and can only infer what your legs are doing from your wrist and arm movement. So if you are doing a lot of arm movement, you might get credited some extra steps, and if walking with wrist held steady, such as pushing shopping cart, won't get credit for some steps. Most people find that over the course of a day, these pretty much even out.
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Okay, I see.
First, wondering how you are judging calorie burn inaccurate, especially if heart rate accurate, since calories burned is based on heart rate. I wonder if you are just thinking of calories burned in workouts and forgetting about BMR calories. Fitbit includes BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) calories which are the calories you are always burning just to stay alive. These typically are more than half the calorie burn per day.
From How does my Fitbit device calculate my daily activity?
For step count, the way to check it is to go somewhere you can walk preferable a near straight line, probably outside, stand still a few seconds, check step count on watch, walk regularly counting steps to at least 100, then stop and after a few seconds check watch again and compare watch count to what you counted. I expect you will be within 1 or 2.
Now throughout the day, you won't get quite that accuracy because it is on your wrist and can only infer what your legs are doing from your wrist and arm movement. So if you are doing a lot of arm movement, you might get credited some extra steps, and if walking with wrist held steady, such as pushing shopping cart, won't get credit for some steps. Most people find that over the course of a day, these pretty much even out.
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