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Calories Not Calculating Correctly

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‎01-29-2016 18:14

‎01-29-2016 18:14

I'm at 6961 steps and my calories count states I've burned 1659. If I'm burning that many calories a day I should be losing weight like a banshee!! I'm thinking it should be more like 270 calories burned. Anyoe?
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‎01-30-2016 00:02

‎01-30-2016 00:02

Welcome to fitbit!

 

I think your One is working fine.

 

As well as tracking calories you burn through activity, your fitbit also tracks your BMR calories. These are the calories you burn just keeping your body alive (even when asleep). They are calculated from your profile settings (age, weight etc) so you needn't be wearing your fitbit to get them. What you are seeing is the total BMR calories plus your activity calories since midnight. There's more information on this here:

 

http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/How-does-Fitbit-know-how-many-calories-I-ve-burne...

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‎01-30-2016 00:02

‎01-30-2016 00:02

Welcome to fitbit!

 

I think your One is working fine.

 

As well as tracking calories you burn through activity, your fitbit also tracks your BMR calories. These are the calories you burn just keeping your body alive (even when asleep). They are calculated from your profile settings (age, weight etc) so you needn't be wearing your fitbit to get them. What you are seeing is the total BMR calories plus your activity calories since midnight. There's more information on this here:

 

http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/How-does-Fitbit-know-how-many-calories-I-ve-burne...

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