Resting calories

[Funfly]

Can I adjust the number of calories I burn at rest which is calculated from my weigtht I think , they seem very high to me?

[MakMak]

Fitbit uses the same equation as this calculator to calculate your BMR. You could mess around with your height and weight if you want to adjust the calories burned, but that's also going to adjust your active calories burned.

[Funfly]

Thanks mate that's cool. 😉

I'm actually 77 years old so you can appreciate that I don't do much jogging (or walking to be honest!)

FF

[Raviv]

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@Funfly wrote:

Thanks mate that's cool. 😉

I'm actually 77 years old so you can appreciate that I don't do much jogging (or walking to be honest!)

FF

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Oh!  You should read Margaret Webb's Older, Faster Stronger then!  I'm not suggesting you take up running (unless you really want to), but it's a great book that makes you rethink "old."

An overweight chain smoker, Webb took up running at the age of 50.  She became fascinated by the idea that you don't have to give it up later in life, and traveled around interviewing women who run marathons and ultra-marathons into their 80s and 90s.

Again, not that I think you'll suddenly fling open your front door and go for a long run, but it's really inspirational.

[SunsetRunner]

On the food log page when hovering over the gear icon by the food plan it's possible to set to 'sedentary'.

This instead of basing your average calorie intake from a average of previous day which can be lot higher if for example having done lots of walking.. but then ending up overeating if not being as active as usual and the calories to eat can drop alot at the end of the day..

Setting to sedentary makes more accurate by allowing to eat the calories to stay alive - food plan deficit and can only increase when being more active.

[Heybales]

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@Funfly wrote:

Can I adjust the number of calories I burn at rest which is calculated from my weigtht I think , they seem very high to me?

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What makes you think they are high?

Have you had an RMR test done that told you what your's was? (and that's RMR, which should be higher than BMR)

Or do you have an accurate measurement of bodyfat % and a Katch BMR calc along with it that shows much lower than the used Mifflin BMR (or close to Mifflin, they don't share what they use).

Since most people have no experience in regards to calorie burning from the body, they mistakenly thing the Fitbit is inflated.

Actually, it'll be prone to underestimating. Because it assigns sleeping level calorie burn to ALL non-moving time.

But when awake you actually burn more - RMR.

When standing not moving you burn even more.

When digesting process food you burn about 10% of calories eaten.

All that is unaccounted for by Fitbit.