Calorie target through the roof

[JohnScotting]

Hi, 

My calorie target jumped from the 4,000 that it had been hovering around for the first 6 days that I've had my FitBit Surge, to a ridiculous 10,000+ yesterday. I forgot to put the tracker, but was just sat in front of the computer all day anyway. So why would the target be so high? I thought 4,000 was plenty. Particularly given that my daily intake has been around 2,000. 

It's over 5,000 for today, with the battery running low (if that's relevant) and I've been parked at my desk since I got out of bed too. 

What's going on? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

John

[JohnScotting]

Actually, thinking about it, I did have the tracker on for most of yesterday. It was Wednesday that I didn't have it on for. 

So it looks like it's saying that I burned 11,300 calories despite doing less than 3,000 steps and no active periods?

[Heybales]

Somethings wrong with your setup.

Unless you are young and very tall and heavy and moving all day long (which steps show you aren't) - you aren't going to burn that many calories.

I'd suggest look at your stats.

There was/is a bug where the weight shows as lbs - but what Fitbit is using in the formula's is actually kg.

Of course 200 kg is 2.2 x as heavy as 200 lbs - and would indeed cause the huge increased calorie burn you show.

You can't confirm the bug except by the effect, because the stat looks right.

But look at your sleeping calorie burn in your daily 5 min graph, for one 5 min period - they should all be down at same level actually.

That calorie burn / 5 x 1440 = rounded BMR they are using.

Is it close to Mifflin BMR results that it should be close to?

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmr-calculator

If not, use kg in that calc and see if that is closer.

If it is - enter a bogus but close weight on Fitbit.

Sync your device after it appears your app has updated, or if syncing with computer, immediately.

Then enter the correct weight again.

Repeat sync.

To confirm - calorie target eating?

Or you are talking about daily burn? Which would still indicate an issue, but what is daily burn at then?