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Turn off estimated cal burn?

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‎01-18-2022 19:43 - last edited on ‎12-14-2022 15:58 by Fitbit Moderator

‎01-18-2022 19:43 - last edited on ‎12-14-2022 15:58 by Fitbit Moderator

Anyone know if there’s a trick to turning off/disabling the estimated calories burned so it only shows the actual calories you’ve burned in a day? I just put on my tracker specifically to see how much I burn in a 30 min lift session and it shows me having burned 1100 cals, which is widely inaccurate. I want my tracker to track my fitness…. Not show me that I could burn x number of cals but what I’ve ACTUALLY burned. I don’t recall my charge 3 doing this. It’s dumb. I may have to find a new tracker if there’s no solution as it really doesn’t function in the way I need it to! I’ve searched through other threads and found no resolution. Any help is much appreciated!! Thanks. 

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‎01-19-2022 00:45

‎01-19-2022 00:45

It's not estimating what you might burn but what you have actually already burned.

 

As well as tracking calories burned 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 for age, height, weight etc so you needn't be wearing your fitbit to get them. The 1100 calories you are seeing is the total BMR calories burned since midnight.

 

There isn't a way of turning off BMR calorie tracking or showing those calories separately from your activity calories so it's going to be difficult to use the fitbit in the way you want.

 

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‎01-19-2022 00:45

‎01-19-2022 00:45

It's not estimating what you might burn but what you have actually already burned.

 

As well as tracking calories burned 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 for age, height, weight etc so you needn't be wearing your fitbit to get them. The 1100 calories you are seeing is the total BMR calories burned since midnight.

 

There isn't a way of turning off BMR calorie tracking or showing those calories separately from your activity calories so it's going to be difficult to use the fitbit in the way you want.

 

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