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Can't Consume Daily Calorie Intake At Work

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  • extra_medium
    extra_medium Posts: 1,525 Member
    edited April 2017
    mommarnurse wrote: »
    That thing's way off. To burn 3000 calories, most people would have to run for 3 hours straight. Think about that.

    It's not only counting her "active" calories. Fitbits' calorie indicators include the calories you burn just living in addition to any exercise calories. It tries to give you a picture of how much you burned in total throughout the entire day so you can plan meals etc accordingly
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,865 Member
    extra_medium wrote: »
    mommarnurse wrote: »
    That thing's way off. To burn 3000 calories, most people would have to run for 3 hours straight. Think about that.

    It's not only counting her "active" calories. Fitbits' calorie indicators include the calories you burn just living in addition to any exercise calories. It tries to give you a picture of how much you burned in total throughout the entire day so you can plan meals etc accordingly

    In another thread the originator is massively overestimating calorie expenditure in deliberate exercise. I suspect this is another case of someone uncritically accepting the screen on a gadget, rather than assessing what it's telling her.
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