Calories not adjusted when edit an activity

[Loubail7]

Whenever I forget to stop an exercise activity and edit it later to show actual time, the calories are not adjusted? Also if I add a manual activity there appear to be set calories depending on what activity you select. There isn’t a category for a lot of the exercise classes I do so I tend to select Workout, but you are unable to select this if adding later. My main issue is that it doesn’t seem to use the HR data. If I say do a Body Pump class I select Weights and can burn 350 + cals but if I add this manually I get less than 200? 

[JohnnyRow]

As you suspected, when you manually log a workout after the fact, that overwrites whatever data was actually recorded, with the parameters you select when logging it.  Manually logging an activity is really intended for when you didn't wear the tracker, so there wouldn't be any real data to overwrite.  I'm not necessarily saying that's how it should be, but I expect that is why it is like that.  If you just don't manually log the workout afterward, then it does use recorded data and that will be used for daily step and calorie totals, but you just will not see the workout counted.

[Loubail7]

Thanks for the response. What about when you forget to stop an activity? I had 1000 cals recorded against an activity that would normally be about 350 cals because I forgot to stop it until 2 hours later. And when I edited duration the cals remained the same. Also because it was still in exercise mode it inflated my calories.

Thanks
Louise

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[JohnnyRow]

I have not tried this, but I doubt being in exercise mode inflates calories.  It would be easy enough to test.  Tell fitbit you are starting a run, then take a nap or sit down and watch TV.  Then stop the "run" and look at calories burned.