Calories burned are far too high

[DVIUS]

So I have been using myfitnesspal for nutrition and Fitbit for activities. I finally synced them but have my daily caloric maintenance calculated to 1715, so I push for a 300 deficit. I have calculated that I do 2157 steps per mile and burn about 100 calories per mile. Since I’ve used that method I have lost about a half a pound per week so pretty accurate. When I learned to Sync Fitbit as a step tracker it pulled in my run and yoga and showed I burned 3100 calories today when my calculation using the estimated calories burned for running and yoga as well as subtracting the steps from running to calculate remaining steps I burned roughly 635 plus my base of 1415 is 2050, not 3100.

so my question is where are they calculating I burned an additional 1050 calories? I’d love to use this as a step tracker but it compared and tried to add 1050 calories I could eat…. Which is way off.

[SunsetRunner]

I use Noom as well as fitbit sense and I find Fitbit is much more generous with the calorie count than when I log an exercise with Noom
For example, a 2.5 mile walk this morning burned 480 cal according to Fitbit, but Noom estimated 320 cals for the same exercise

[eezeepee]

@SunsetRunner @DVIUS Do either of your apps take heart rate into account or are they just going by steps, sex, age, height, and weight? 

I think heart rate is the reason why Fitbit estimates it to be higher then those apps.

[SunsetRunner]

@eezeepeethe noom app doesn't track heart rate so that probably explains the difference in calories burned 👍