346 kcal for a 42min walk!? Isn't it too high?

[MrMotte]

Hello Community,

i am a bit concerned about my burned calorie count. I try usualy to burn calories by simply going for a walk (not jogging, just plain simple walk). But i think that fitbit does count to much calories. Attached 2 pics from my last walk a few minutes ago.

My stats:

168cm height

80kg weight

23% body fat (as Aria tells me)

60 beats per minute while sleeping

1000kcal deficit (thinking about lowering)

20/4 Intermittent fasting

Tech:

- using Charge 3

- i have used "walking" serveral times as training. My step length and distance should be perfectly synced.

Can you tell me if the calories burned are reasonable and if there needs anything to be tweaked?

PS: However i've lost since 1th march around 5kg just with walking and sometimes 5-10min muscle training.

[Baltoscott]

Hey there @MrMotte.  It may be a little too high. For many users, Fitbit calorie-burn reports are high.  My best guess is that it over-reports my burn during exercise by about 20%.  I determined that when I was logging food over about 18 months while trying to lose weight and weighing myself every day. You can’t change the algorithm Fitbit uses (it is based on averages for someone with a profile similar to you — weight, sex, age).

Also, keep in mind that the calorie count includes the calories you burn just be sitting around too.  For most folks this 70% of daily calorie burn.  

Sounds like you are on the right track for weight loss.  You best feedback loop for whether what you are doing is working is regular weigh-ins (I do daily and pay attention to Fitbit’s weekly average or the moving average I get in TrendWeight — link in my signature), and regularly doing other body measurements (while losing weight I checked my waist measurement every Sunday morning).