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I'm only allowed 1700 calories intake, but have burned 1843 calories. Does the calorie counter take into consideration that I excercised and burned more calories than I've eaten?
As far as I know (based on my few days with FitBit), you might have to log anything above the device's calories burned as an activity in the Log. When I did that after shoveling snow yesterday, it added to my calories burned.
If your fitbit was able to read your exercise (ie running) then you do not need to log your exercise separately. Fitbit will automatically update your calorie total. If you are maintaining weight then you would eat as many calories as you burn, but if you are trying to lose weight then you will need to eat less then you burn. That may account for the difference.
I would also take into consideration that Fitbit calculates your calorie burn throughout the entire day -- the 1800-ish you have burned may not be the full day / burn.
Goals: Low Carb, high fat, 70-20-10 .... lose 20 pounds by 6/2017
