Entering exercise manually

[UUAlecia]

I’m frustrated please help! Some days I forget to wear my Fitbit (today) and I know how to enter my exercise manually but why doesn’t my manual exercise calories factor into my total calories burned for the day like it does when I don’t forget?? Also there are times I forget to turn of my exercise once I’m done. Why does it continue to calculate my calories as if I’m exercising?? Shouldn’t calorie burn depend on heart rate? So why wouldn’t I burn the same calories in 1 hour outside of exercise mode and 1 hour in exercise mode if my heart rate was the same? I concerned Fitbit is overinflating my total calorie burn. Thanks!

[WendyB]

Welcome to the forums!

Calorie burn depends on your BMR

You burn calories just by being alive! Even Sleeping. Fitbit includes these burned calories in it's calorie calculations, so even if you did not wear the fitbit, you'll still burn these calories.

Read this

http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/How-does-Fitbit-know-how-many-calories-I-ve-burne...

Check out the discussions boards! A lot going on and I'm sure you have some contributions as well!
Hope to see you around!

[UUAlecia]

Thanks for the reply Wendy! I do understand BMR and that I burn calories by just being alive my concern is that my Fitbit is overestimating my calories when I forget to turn off exercise mode. Example:

Wearing Fitbit from 12pm-1pm NOT in exercise mode- 100 calories burned, heart rate consistently 52bpm

Wearing fitbit from 6:30pm-7:30pm IN last exercise mode used however class ended at 6:15- 160 calories burned, heart rate consistently 52bpm

It seems as though Fitbit is overestimating my calorie burn just because I’m not out of exercise mode. In these two examples my activity levels during these two hours are very similar. I hope this helps! Thanks 😊