Burn meter?

I'm confused about the burn meter thingy.  It says my estimate for the day is 1700 calories, does that mean I should eat that much or should I subtract 500 from that? In order for me to lose the weight.  This is on a day where I do nothing. Any help would be appreciated. : )

If it says that this is the daily calories burned then you would want to subtract the 500 from that to determine your calorie intake.

At least this is how I understand it to be.

I think it's telling you how much to eat to loose weight. Mine is estimated at 1350 and I'm sure I shouldn't deduct 500 from that. That would be below my minimum. 

The burn meter is not telling you what you should eat -- that's located on the Eat Meter under daily goal.  The burn meter is estimating how many calories you will burn over a 24 hour period.  It makes the calculation based on your weight and your activity level (entered when you signed up -- either sedentary, light, moderate, or very active). 

When you add more activities that you have done for the day it takes those calories into account and updates the meter.  Say you burn 100 cal/hr. doing nothing -- that is just how many your body burns sitting motionless.  Then say that you enter 60 minutes of an activity that burns 178 calories.  When you enter this activity, the burn meter will have gone up 78 calories (because there was a net-addition of 78 burned calories).  It works conversely, if say you add 'Quiet Sleeping' at 89 calories/hr.  If you entered 1 hour of that activity, then your burn meter will drop 11 calories.

Your goal should be to consume 500-1000 less calories than you burn in a day; therefore, if your burn meter for the day reads 2980, then you should eat 1980-2480.

Hey kaleb-rippstein,  why does my calorie meter say my daily goal is 2500 cals if I am suppose to subtract 500-1000 cals off my daily burn meter?  This is a little confusing.  I thought the idea was not to eat more then what I burn daily.  Help!!!