Versa 2 Calories Accuracy

[Jeanshort]

I’ve been wearing the Versa 2 since it was released last year. I’ve often questioned the accuracy of the calories count. 

About me: active female, age 34, 5’7”, 150 pounds. I’m bartender and work on my feet for 8-10 hours a day. It’s energetic work, but it’s not overly physically demanding by any standard. 

I’ll be as detailed as possible regarding my daily activity. Yesterday, I rowed vigorously on indoor rowing machine for 25 minutes (250 cal according to the Exercise app), and spent 15 minutes doing shoulder stabilization exercises with stretch bands. I commute to the city for work by subway. The walk to/from the train is about 0.5 mi each way. On the train, I sit. As I said before, I’m a bartender, so I’m on my feet all day. My heart rate hovers in the 98-107 range while working. At the end of the day, my Versa 2 had recorded 3903 calories burned and 14107 steps (I won’t get into the step count, which is egregiously inaccurate, at best).

I highly doubt that my 25-minute cardio session earlier in the day had so great an after-burn effect. I would have expected that kind of calorie burn when I was a competitive swimmer.

I’ve tended to use the calorie count as a guideline, but recently, I’ve become more goal-oriented, and knowing the accuracy +/-% would be helpful.

Any thoughts?

[JohnnyRow]

It is very difficult to judge full day's calorie burn from the info but here's what I suggest:

go to the fitbit.com dashboard (in web browser) and look at the wide graph in daily mode, where you can select calories burned or heart rate, and look at these in 15 minute intervals.  You can see exactly when fitbit thinks you burned how many calories, and correlate that to your heart rate at the time.  That might help you better understand where your calorie burn is coming from and whether or not it seems reasonable.

[Ravenstalker]

Mine gives me about 5000kcal a day and that is bull**ahem**. Fitbit yes man workers will keep telling "turn of and on and reset etc..." Well I am not average American so I can figure out this myself. So to save time i dont need these stupit advices. Why just fitbit does not incorporate more calorie counting equasions to choose from? So i can switch between them to find the right one for me. Or at last they shoud have incorporated bodyfat percentage. Not what bodyfat you want but what you have!!! That is essential. It will be more precise. I have 100kg and 30% BF for example.  So next to weight fill, there should be %bodyfat percentage to fill. Ridiculous...work on it guys, and I am not talking about conectivity issues...