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Calories seem way too high

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‎02-09-2017 09:03

‎02-09-2017 09:03

Hi, I bought my Fitbit One this morning. While I was charing it, it read 19 steps/502 calories. Now I've worn it for about 4 hours, it's telling me I've walked 0.21km (311 steps) and burned 1012 calories - this is 200 calories more than strava/garmin tell me I've burned on my last 10km (6 mile) run! How can I walk around the house covering 0.21km and burn 1012 calories, yet run a whole 10km (1hr 5m) and only burn 804 calories? This seems a huge over estimate of what I'm burning just pottering around the house. Have I maybe set something up wrong? I've checked my height/weight etc and don't know what the answer is, it just seems the fitbit calorie calculations are way out. Any ideas??

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‎02-10-2017 00:43

‎02-10-2017 00:43

I think you are not taking into account your BMR calories. These are the calories you burn just keeping your body alive (even when sleeping). For many people these form the bulk of their total calorie burn. They are calculated from your profile settings so you needn't be wearing your fitbit to get them.

 

The calories burned you are seeing include the BMR calories burned since midnight. There's more info on this here:

 

http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1381

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‎02-10-2017 00:43

‎02-10-2017 00:43

I think you are not taking into account your BMR calories. These are the calories you burn just keeping your body alive (even when sleeping). For many people these form the bulk of their total calorie burn. They are calculated from your profile settings so you needn't be wearing your fitbit to get them.

 

The calories burned you are seeing include the BMR calories burned since midnight. There's more info on this here:

 

http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1381

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