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Calories Burned Wrong?

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‎01-15-2019 10:50

‎01-15-2019 10:50

My Fitbit says I burn 3000 cals per day on average with my work and workouts.  Now I know I maintain my weight at 2000 calories, I am eating 2000 calories at the moment and my weight is staying the same, so something is off with the calories.  Anyone else have this issue?

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‎01-15-2019 11:16

‎01-15-2019 11:16

The calories burned are BMR calories. Your fitbit also calculates calories burned for your BMR. You burn calories just by being alive! Even Sleeping. Fitbit includes these burned calories in it's calorie calculations, so even if you did not wear the fitbit, you'll still burn these calories.

Read this http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/How-does-Fitbit-know-how-many-calories-I-ve-burne...


See this thread as well @Colinm39

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Fitbit-com-Dashboard/How-do-you-find-your-BMR/m-p/2516869#M77958

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‎01-15-2019 11:30

In response to WendyB

‎01-15-2019 11:30

I know what basal metabolic rate is, the point I am getting at is fitbit is reporting roughly 3000 per day on average.  I track everything I eat, I eat 2000 - 2100 calories per day, so I should be losing weight at quite a rate then if I am burning 3000 calories per day and only eating 2000, the reality is I am maintaining my weight at 2000 calories. Do you see what I am getting at?

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