Inspire 2 is showing calories burned upon waking up

[saturdaychick]

Hi everyone,

I bought an Inspire 2 a week ago and was loving it until I noticed that when I put it on in the morning, I don't sleep with it on, it started the day with a calorie count, like today of 345, while everything else was zero. I tried rebooting and clearing data and chatted with Fitbit help and none of that has set it back to zero. It's like it's stuck there. Is there a way to make it go to zero? It's messing up my ability to track actual calories I burn. 
Thanks for any help with this!

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[JohnnyRow · Accepted solution]

Those are your BMR calories, credited even when not wearing it because you are still burning those calories, even when asleep.  It is not messing up anything because you were burning calories overnight.

From How does my Fitbit device calculate my daily activity? 

[saturdaychick]

Thank you. But I wasn't wearing it. I don't wear it to sleep. It sits on my dresser overnight.
So, how do you track actual calories? Do you deduct that reading, whatever it says for calories, every morning, before my day begins?
I'm sorry. I'm confused.

[JohnnyRow]

Your BMR (basal Metabolic Rate) is the calories you are always burning just to stay alive. As the quote says, your BMR is based on height, weight, sex, age.  Fitbit is making the wild assumption that you were still alive overnight when you were not wearing it.  Therefore you actually did burn those calories to breathe, keep your heart beating, etc.

[saturdaychick]

Thank you, again. So, do we deduct that number from the day's count?

[JohnnyRow]

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@saturdaychick wrote:

Thank you, again. So, do we deduct that number from the day's count?

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Not if you want an accurate count of calories burned for the day.