Wrong Amount of Stairs which adds to me exercise credit in my fitness pal.

[gnd1432]

I've read the comments on the fitbit sense inaccurately counting flights of stairs.  Mine has always done that and so I have just removed seeing it from my dashboard in the app.  That said, I started logging food entries into myfitnesspal and realized that because fitbit thinks I've miraculously climbed 126 flights of stairs, usually everyday when I only actually go up maybe 1 flight, that it's probably counting all those stairs as  if I'm burning more calories than I actually am, which is making my calorie log grossly inaccurate as well in myfitnesspal.  I need this to be accurate because it's seriously hindering my weightloss goal.  I want to disable stairs.  I don't ever again want fitbit to try and tell me how many stairs it "thinks" I've climbed.  If there is no way to do this then someone please tell me which fitbit product does not include stairs.

[JohnnyRow]

Fitbit's count of stair climbed do not affect anything else.  It has no effect on calorie burn.  Calorie burn is calculated from heart rate.  When it is true stairs climbed, then it probably raises your heart rate increasing calorie burn, but "fake" stairs have no affect on anything but that number of stairs climbed.  So don't worry about them.

[Dopovo]

While @JohnnyRow is technically right the problem here is that @gnd1432 is seeing an abnormal value of calories burned that is most likely derived from the erroneous measure of the heart rate that is recognized, even by Fitbit, as a bug.

[JohnnyRow]

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@Dopovo wrote:

While @JohnnyRow is technically right the problem here is that @gnd1432 is seeing an abnormal value of calories burned that is most likely derived from the erroneous measure of the heart rate that is recognized, even by Fitbit, as a bug.

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Perhaps, but my reading of OP is that she was just fearing it was giving an abnormal number of calories, rather than actually seeing any evidence of that.

[Guy_]

Am curious does anyone know if myfitnesspal does it's own calculations for calories burned and input or use only those values from the Fitbit App directly?