I have a question about my Fitbit calories burned?
Altagracia220
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I have the Surge. When I swipe left on my watch, I can see the time, steps I've taken, bpm, miles I've walked,and finally the calories I've burned. It is 10:27 in the morning currently and it is telling me I've burned 838 calories for the day so far. I've already consumed 400 calories today. Does this mean I can consume another 438 calories and be in maintenance or will I still be in a deficit? Help please! TIA
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Ummm, is this question for real?0
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subversive99 wrote: »Ummm, is this question for real?
Nope, just felt like screwing around and annoying people. Thanks for the help.0 -
Honestly I don't think so. I may be wrong but I think that it also takes into consideration your bmr (the calories you need to survive). It's not just exercise calories.
I will research a little to see if I can answer for sure though.
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Steph38878 wrote: »Honestly I don't think so. I may be wrong but I think that it also takes into consideration your bmr (the calories you need to survive). It's not just exercise calories.
I will research a little to see if I can answer for sure though.
I'm wondering because on average, by the end of the day (if I've worked out) It will say I've burned between 2700-3000 calories. So I just wanted to make sure if that was the case because I would hate to over eat and gain.0 -
subversive99 wrote: »Ummm, is this question for real?
Nope, just felt like screwing around and annoying people. Thanks for the help.
The calories shown on your fitbit are what it estimates your total calorie burn for the day is, what do you think it's showing you? So your question would seem to be self-answering.
It's just an estimate though, so your question seemed overly specific and lacking an understanding of how the trackers work. I wouldn't worry about being in deficit for every minute of every day. Also, assume that the fitbit probably overestimates your burn to some degree, and you probably under count your calories to some degree, most of us do. It's a good tool though, been super helpful for me.
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I was correct with it calculating calories for bmr. I'm not sure how you set yours but I have my fitbit account set to same calories as mfp. I had to click on the set my own calorie goal because by fitbit's calcs, it would be too low. It will then take into consideration my food and burns to show how many calories I get credit for.
That may not make sense. Sorry.0 -
Steph38878 wrote: »I was correct with it calculating calories for bmr. I'm not sure how you set yours but I have my fitbit account set to same calories as mfp. I had to click on the set my own calorie goal because by fitbit's calcs, it would be too low. It will then take into consideration my food and burns to show how many calories I get credit for.
That may not make sense. Sorry.
The device does not pull from the website though. It's just showing you your total burn for the day, not any kind of 'net calories remaining' number or anything.
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subversive99 wrote: »Steph38878 wrote: »I was correct with it calculating calories for bmr. I'm not sure how you set yours but I have my fitbit account set to same calories as mfp. I had to click on the set my own calorie goal because by fitbit's calcs, it would be too low. It will then take into consideration my food and burns to show how many calories I get credit for.
That may not make sense. Sorry.
The device does not pull from the website though. It's just showing you your total burn for the day, not any kind of 'net calories remaining' number or anything.
Ok! Thank you so much!
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If you use the fitbit dashboard on your phone or computer, it will give you a net calories amount.
ETA: Or rather, it will give you a "remaining calories" number, which is an approximate amount of how many calories you have left to consume in a day. This number changes depending on your activity level for the rest of the day. So you might have 200 calories left at 9, but you've laid on the couch until 11, so then you only have 150 calories left. Or you might get up at 9 and go for a run and then have 300 calories left in the day.0 -
Katiebear_81 wrote: »If you use the fitbit dashboard on your phone or computer, it will give you a net calories amount.
ETA: Or rather, it will give you a "remaining calories" number, which is an approximate amount of how many calories you have left to consume in a day. This number changes depending on your activity level for the rest of the day. So you might have 200 calories left at 9, but you've laid on the couch until 11, so then you only have 150 calories left. Or you might get up at 9 and go for a run and then have 300 calories left in the day.
Right, it's a bit of a moving target. It depends what you've set your activity level to in MFP as well. If you set it to sedentary, then pretty much all movement will increase your calories remaining, if you set it to lightly active or higher, you'll have to do some baseline amount of activity before you start to "earn" extra calories.
In any case, it's all just an estimate, and the only way to know your specifics is to track accurately over a period of time. Don't expect it to be perfect right away.
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I normally don't use the calories it gives me unless I'm doing something more active or out of the ordinary. If it's my same old routine, I feel like that's something my body is used to so I don't use the extra calories. My normal chores such as housework, cooking, etc - I don't use. If I did extra spring cleaning or excessive yard work, I would consider using calories.0
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It shows you calories burned up to the minute. It does give BMR calories but it won't show your calories for say 11am or later because they haven't happened yet. Mine is showing 909 at 10am. However I know that by the end of the day I will have at least 1400 because that is roughly my BMR. 616 of the calories I've burned so far are from my BMR. As time passes it will add in more of my BMR calories + calories for any activity I do. So far my Surge has proved to be very accurate with my calories burned.I have the Surge. When I swipe left on my watch, I can see the time, steps I've taken, bpm, miles I've walked,and finally the calories I've burned. It is 10:27 in the morning currently and it is telling me I've burned 838 calories for the day so far. I've already consumed 400 calories today. Does this mean I can consume another 438 calories and be in maintenance or will I still be in a deficit? Help please! TIA
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Okay so to clarify here, if by the end of the day my watch says 2800 calories burned for the day, then I should consume a little less than that to stay in a deficit, say -400 or -500 calories?
I know I may sound uneducated but this is my first tracker so bear with me.0 -
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