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Calorie count is weird

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‎04-09-2019 07:48

‎04-09-2019 07:48

I have a brand new Fitbit HR. The moment I put it on my wrist yesterday it told me that I had consumed 775 calories. Excuse me? How would it know that? (And, by the way, that is NOT accurate.) And then, I WALKED to my bedroom and back, and somehow added 150 calories. Really?  I wasn't eating anything. I have tried to Erase everything to start over but that doesn't seem to work, either. I'd just like to turn off the calorie counter thing. Advice welcome and many thanks.

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‎04-09-2019 08:23

‎04-09-2019 08:23

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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‎05-02-2019 07:18

‎05-02-2019 07:18

Same “problem”.. so how do I get only the number of “really” burned calories?😓

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‎05-02-2019 07:28

In response to KaterinaR

‎05-02-2019 07:28

But you really do burn your BMR calories!

 

To answer your question though, you can't exclude the BMR calories from the total shown. You would need to manually work out what your BMR calorie burn was and subtract that from the total. 

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‎07-21-2019 18:22

‎07-21-2019 18:22

Are you sure that's not your calories BURNED?  

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