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my smartwatch doesn’t count calories correctly

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‎05-20-2019 00:26 - last edited on ‎09-06-2020 19:58 by Fitbit Moderator

‎05-20-2019 00:26 - last edited on ‎09-06-2020 19:58 by Fitbit Moderator

Good day to all. Am from Ukrain and sorry for my english. I have a fitbit versa. I ran into such a problem - my smartwatch doesn’t count calories correctly. I took off the bracelet for the whole night, and he was lying on the table. I saw that he counted 462 calories, 0 steps, 0 pulse. How is this possible and why can this happen? Please help me figure it out.

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‎05-20-2019 00:42

‎05-20-2019 00:42

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. What you are seeing is the total BMR calories burned since midnight

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‎05-20-2019 00:52

In response to SteveH

‎05-20-2019 00:52

Maybe you know how to reset calories by 0 every day when I wake up to see how much I really burn calories for an active day?

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‎05-20-2019 00:54

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‎05-20-2019 00:54

The calorie count automatically resets at midnight each day and you can't manually reset it.

 

You do really burn your BMR calories so these need to be included in your calorie totals.

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‎05-20-2019 00:58

In response to SteveH

‎05-20-2019 00:58

thank you very much. Sincerely, Daria

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‎05-20-2019 01:25

In response to SteveH

‎05-20-2019 01:25

last question. Maybe you know how to track BMR calories and separately active calories? so it was visually visible.

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‎05-20-2019 02:53

In response to fretka696

‎05-20-2019 02:53

At the moment that's not possible. There is a feature suggestion for and if you'd like to add your vote for it you can find it here:

 

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Suggestions/Separate-BMR-from-Activity-Calories-Burned-and-A...

 

Until such a change is made you'd need to do the calculations manually. Look at your calorie burn at a time when you were asleep. The calories burned then will be just your BMR calories. As these are burned at a constant rate day and night you could subtract them from the total to get your "active" calories.

 

That would be very messy to do on a regular basis and it might be easier to see if you can just get used to the totals including BMR

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