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Old Charge and New Inspire show different amount of calories

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I just got the Fitbit inspire over the weekend. I’ve noticed some differences from my old charge, one of them being that the data on my app is higher than the data on the app itself. In addition, both numbers available for calories burned seem too high as my old one had me burning on average ~2500 a day and the inspire says I’m burning 3000 a day. Is there something I can do to at least solve the differing data issue? Grateful for any help!

 

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Hi @emk97, welcome to the Fitbit Community Forums. I'm glad to see you here. 

 

Congrats on your new Inspire HR. I'll be glad to help you out with the differences that you can see on your Charge and Inspire HR. 

 

We might have to check a little more information on what activities you're performing to get a possible reason and how you're wearing your devices. It's important to specify whether you wear the device on your dominant or non-dominant wrist during setup:

 

  • The dominant wrist setting decreases the sensitivity of step counting and should reduce any over counting of steps when your body is not moving. Your dominant hand is the one you use for writing and eating.
  • The non-dominant wrist setting increases the sensitivity of step counting and should reduce any under counting of steps.

To start, the Wrist setting is set to non-dominant. Change your wrist setting in the Fitbit app > Account > Device > Wrist Placement. I'd recommend checking this article to have more details about calories burned: how does Fitbit estimate how many calories I've burned?

 

Please give it a try and keep me posted. 

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