My fitbit says I burned 950 calories overnight

[alexrb]

I went to bed last night around 1:20 and probably didn't fall asleep until 2:00 and woke up today at 9:45. My fitbit says that I burned 900 calories overnight and that seems way to high.

Since im sure it matters for calculations I'm 18, 6 feet tall, and weigh 167 lbs and I have this entered in my fitbit correctly. Using an online calculator, it says I should be burning about 500.

Is there a way to fix this? I'd like the calorie tracker to be accurate and not 500-700 calories over.

[JohnnyRow]

It sounds like what you are getting at is you thing Fitbit is setting your BMR too high.  But you seem to be assuming you were at BMR since midnight, though you didn't go to bed until 1:20.  Try looking at your detailed calories burned bar chart showing calories burned each 15 minute period.  Where that goes to a minimum overnight while asleep is probably your BMR that Fitbit is using.  And also note the calories you were burning before you went to bed, and if there were any periods overnight when your calorie burn went up.  And if you question the calories number for any period, look at your similar heart rate chart for that time, ans calories burned is based on heart rate.

  Fitbit gives you all this detailed data, so you don't have to go by a generalized 'too many calories burned overnight'.  You can look at the detailed data to analyze exactly what is going on.