FitBit Surge - Can I manually track calories burned

[PhillyPhat]

 I want to use the FitBit app to lose weight.  I manually set a calorie goal of 1740 per day and logging food works fine.  I want my logged calories burned to be manual to so that I know what kind of leeway I have with my eating calories if, say, I ran 3 miles and burned 400 calories.  That would mean I can afford an additional 400 eating calories when I excercise during the day.  This is how other apps work such as MyFitnessPal.  I've used this method before and it works perfectly.  However, the FitBit app logs calories automatically for breathing and just being alive. In my mind that is pretty much like me manually tracking calories eaten for just thinking about food, which I do a lot.  I just want to be able to track excercise calories which are the only calories that matter to my weight loss.  So if I run, whether it be using the 'run' feature on my Surge to automatically input my calories burned or I manually enter my calories burned for said run, this will help me track the net calories I can eat in a day.  The way it works now, if I manually set a calorie eating goal it doesn't apply my calories burned.  If I let the app do the work and do no excercise, it tells me the end of the day I have burned 3740 calories for example, and I have 2000 calories available to ingest at the end of the day, which would be awesome, but is simply innacurate.  

Can someone explain if I can do this? (manually track excercise calories and have them count toward my net eating calories).

[GisselleM]

Hey there @PhillyPhat what an interesting post you published 🙂 Well it is possible to manually log activities along with the calories burned, we usually use this option when we forget to wear our tracker and have completed some activities.  

Is just a matter of knowing the exact time and duration of your activity so that you may manually log it including the distance and calories burned during the activity, keep in mind that everything that you manually log will override the information saved by your Surge, and it will be reflected in your daily totals.

I hope this info helps, let me know how it goes! 

[PhillyPhat]

Thanks but this did not help 🙃

I manually entered my run at 469 calories burned, but the app still shows my net calories left for the day as my starting goal. It did not add 469 to my calories left total which is what it should do. On other apps like myfitnesspal if I allow myself 1500 eating calories and burn 500 in exercise, they calculate I can eat 2000 calories and still meet my weight loss goal. It seems that Fitbit just does not allow you to do this.