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‎06-21-2020 04:50

‎06-21-2020 04:50

My fit it arrived yesterday and I set it up etc. However there were already stats on how many calories burned the whole week? Yet I only go it yesterday if there anyway to delete this so I can make it accurate reading?

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‎06-21-2020 05:02

‎06-21-2020 05:02

Hi, and welcome to the Community!

 

That calorie data is actually your data.

 

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.

 

When you look at a day in the past it will calculate the total BMR calories for that day. When you see the calories burned so far today it will include the BMR calories you have burned since midnight.

 

There's not a way to stop is showing calories for previous days so it's just a case of ignoring them. 

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‎06-21-2020 05:02

‎06-21-2020 05:02

Hi, and welcome to the Community!

 

That calorie data is actually your data.

 

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.

 

When you look at a day in the past it will calculate the total BMR calories for that day. When you see the calories burned so far today it will include the BMR calories you have burned since midnight.

 

There's not a way to stop is showing calories for previous days so it's just a case of ignoring them. 

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‎06-25-2020 00:49

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‎06-25-2020 00:49

Hi Steve,


I hope you are well.

 

Thank you for responding, that is really insightful and useful to know. I thought it was example data to show you how it all works. 🙂 

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