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Burning more calories than I count?

Drdmike
Drdmike Posts: 66
edited February 26 in Fitness and Exercise
I try to consume about 14,000 calories a week or about 2000 a day. I noticed that I have gone over as much as 3,000 calories per week yet I weigh the same. I do factor in estimated amounts of calories burned at the gym. I'm down 2 pounds though so obviously something is working. How do I accurately figure out how many calories I am burning? I ordered a fitbit but does it measure calories burned through TRX and biking?

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  • brianpperkins
    brianpperkins Posts: 6,124 Member
    Fitbits are essentially fancy, web connected pedometers. They are great at counting steps ... suck at counting pedal rotations.

    All calorie burn calculators are estimates. HRMs, online calculators, MFP .. nothing more than estimates. For certain exercises, the estimates are more accurate based on years of lab testing ... for others, well, there at best ballpark guesses.
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