Does your Fitbit overestimate calories burned?

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  • InfoomaousTete
    InfoomaousTete Posts: 1,383 Member
    My Charge HR and my new Blaze are very consistant with my rate of loss when you do the math over a month's time. Weight loss isn't linear/horizontal. If you lost 6 pounds over a month that's an average of 1.5 a week. Maybe one week was 2, the next 1, the next nothing, and the final week 3. Hormones and water weight are big factors for women weekly weight as well. Look at the big picture not 7 days.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,759 Member
    lauraesh0384 wrote: »
    glassyo wrote: »
    lauraesh0384 wrote: »
    I'm definitely beginning to think my Zip is overestimating calories. Lately I've been burning 750 extra calories (according to my Fit Bit) which should have me losing some weight and I'm not. I thought about making my height an inch or two shorter to give me a lower BMR and burn the calories I normally would. It's frustrating because I've been at the same weight for roughly a week when normally I can lose weight pretty consistently, even if it's 0.2 lbs here, 0.2 lbs there. My other thought was to try and burn an extra 1000 calories on top of my food intake and see what results I get. Or maybe I just need to drop my calories from 1800 to 1600-1700. Not quite sure yet.

    Or you could give it more than a week. Come on! :)

    I'm not someone that typically goes an entire week without any weight loss, which is why it's extremely perplexing.

    LOL sorry. I'm just so used to people thinking they hit a plateau after like a day but I get it. I had the opposite problem. My weight loss wasn't even close to being linear when...suddenly...it was. And it went on for something like a month. And, yes, that can be a problem. :)
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