My 44min walk calories (242 cals) are different from my daily calories burned (2,569 cals), why?

[LuxeBun]

Hello! I have had my Luxe since January of this year but this will be my first time posting a question to the community! The subject heading is exactly my question, my morning walk says I burned 242 calories however the daily burned calories say I've burned 2,569 daily calories and since I have my fitbit linked to myfitnesspal, it's throwing everything off for me. My day hasn't ended so I don't understand why there would be a summary for daily calories yet. The only times I hit up towards 2,569 daily burned calories is usually after I hit or go above my 15k steps. 

I have restarted my fitbit multiple times, I've restarted my phone, I've disconnected my fitbit from my phone and it's bluetooth and then reconnected my fitbit to my phone. But nothing seems to work so that the daily burned calories reflect the calories I actually burned during my walk. 

I would upload a screen shot but every time I try dragging and dropping it into the message Fitbit tells me "You do not have permission to upload images". Hopefully I will be able to post one later once I received permission..

[Heather-S]

Hi @LuxeBun! Your Fitbit daily calorie burn includes your BMR calories (what your body burns if you were to stay in bed all day), then it adds in any calories extra you burn from working out and moving around. It uses heart rate, weight, age, sex, etc to determine how many calories you burn every day. It shows you the calories burned while they are happening, even if the day hasn't finished yet. You may have noticed that when you wake up in the morning, you've already burned a few hundred calories before you get out of bed and that's because of your BMR calories that Fitbit is accounting for.

Hope this helps explain it a bit.

[LuxeBun]

Ahh okay so it adds your BMR to the calories you've burned and thats why it displays this way, correct? If thats the case is there a way to not have that happen? I just want to know the calories I've burned from my workouts, without the BMR calories added 😕  So if my morning walk says I've burned 242 calories then I just want it to display that only, not with the addition of BMR. I just want to see the calories I've burned from exercise not BMR calories + exercise. 

[Heather-S · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, there's no way to disable the BMR calories or to separate out the active vs inactive calories burned. This is just Fitbit's method of presenting total caloric burn. I would love to see it separated out myself as well.

[LuxeBun]

Yeah I figured after doing some digging and seeing that there are countless people who do not want this as a function, really wish I had known this was a thing prior to buying one for myself and my mom. I know that this must be a result of a recent update due to the fact that both me and my mom have the same fitbit, however I only updated mine. Hers still only counts calories burned without the addition of BMR, she has her own account and everything, where as mine started including BMR today when I updated the fitbit app. I've only had the fitbit for a short while and have it under warranty, this is definitely making me consider either trying to return my Fitbit, selling it if I can't, in the hopes that I can recoup some of my losses and purchase a step tracker that actually tracks my calories burned. 

This feature is throwing off MFP calories entirely because MFP doesn't recognize the different between the BMR +burned calories from only burned calories. Which means I have to calculate my calories burned manually each time otherwise I'll accidentally overeat. I don't know anyone who buys fitness trackers to track their BMR and calories burned especially when that information is easily calculated via google BMR trackers..

Thanks for letting me rant, I'll try to figure out how to get rid of this thing since I don't think they have an interest in fixing it since there are so many complaints and yet no improvements.