Fitbit Seems to Be Giving Me Too Many Calories

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  • lordytaylor
    lordytaylor Posts: 1 Member
    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
    curt1capt Posts: 4 Member
    edited January 2016
    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
    ayreka7 Posts: 198 Member
    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
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    edited January 2016
    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.
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