Calories burned - impossible! Getting annoyed.

[FancyTatts]

My versa has been sitting in it's cradle all night. I've just gone onto my dashboard and it's already clocked up calories when the watch isn't even on my wrist. I am getting really annoyed with you fitbit .. when are you going to fix this rubbish!!!! 

[SteveH]

That's quite normal. Your fitbit is working ok.

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.

[FancyTatts]

That is quite alot of calories Steve...

[SteveH]

The amount does vary from person to person. Basically the bigger you are the more BMR calories you burn.

My BMR burn rate is around 60 calories per hour so normally have over 400 by the time I get up.

If you are not convinced then google "bmr calculator". There are a number out there where you can feed in your details and check the fitbit calculations against the results.

[FancyTatts]

Well I never knew that! Then I take back my outburst and apologise to fitbit 👍

[Colinm39]

@FancyTattsThis BMR Calculator uses the same equations that Fitbit use and it's only 5 calories different from my sleeping/resting BMR..  When I do a 10k-11k steps days it's 50% of my daily calories burn..

In the Fitbit help in this link Fitbit don't mention the effort level to achieve the 50%...

You get my vote for posting again.. Us volunteers would like more to do that...

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@FancyTatts wrote:

Well I never knew that! Then I take back my outburst and apologise to fitbit 👍

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