Fitbit Seems to Be Giving Me Too Many Calories

lordytaylor

I just got a fitbit charge HR a few days ago, and it is giving me amazing numbers. Yesterday I was on the treadmill (brisk walk, no running) for 30 minutes and it says I burned about 400 calories in about 3000 steps - which seems high, but not outrageous. The rest of the day, with no exercise, I had 6000 additional steps and it says my total calories burned for the day was 3249!!! Did I really burn 2800 calories just walking around? I work in an office and sit on my butt most of the day.

What am I missing?

curt1capt

I have a Fitbit Charge HR too and have been using it for almost a month. For the most part it seems to work alright with MFP except a few times I get these weird numbers in the "Cardiovascular" section. Yesterday the "Fitbit calorie adjustment" registered 574 under calories burned three times in a row. I did a HIIT workout on my elliptical for 25 minutes first thing in the morning which I recorded and then by the end of the day I got these additional entries of 574.

It looks like this:

CARDIOVASCULAR_____________MINUTES__________CALORIES BURNED
Elliptical Trainer___________________25___________________360
Fitbit calorie adjustment____________N/A__________________574
Fitbit calorie adjustment____________N/A__________________574
Fitbit calorie adjustment____________N/A__________________574

This isn't the first time it's done this in the short time I've had the Charge HR.

ayreka7

Mine seems to be really high too. I'm set to active because i do a great deal of walking at work and chasing two kids after work. Most days I'm at 18-20,000+ steps and I have over 1,500 "exercise calories" added from Fitbit. I'm 5'5" and 178. Not sure how I would lose weight at 2,800 calories a day. Some days I'm hungrier but usually I'm fine. I have the charge HR also.

jemhh

I am having the complete opposite problem with my Zip. I'm aiming for and getting 10k steps on non-lifting days and 8k on lifting days. So far it has me burning around 2050 on lifting days and 1900 on non-lifting days. It does not correlate with my 18+ months of tracking data. It's 200-300 calories under my TDEE according to my data.