Burn Meter?

Could someone please explain to me the burn meter and why the numbers keep changing? Is it telling me how many cals a day I am approx burning? Why are there two numbers? Grr what's it all mean! Thanks :)

 

Me 

Ask and yee shall receive :

it can be a little daunting at first -- give it time, you can't learn it all in one day.

The BURN meter TOP number is the total estimated calories you burn based on your age, height, current weight, gender, and activity level -- if you set yourself as "sedentary" and then add in your activity calories -- those are added into the TOP number.

The BURN meter BOTTOM number shows how many calories you have burned at the moment you are looking at the meter. This number starts at 0 at midnight, reflects all the calories you burned throughout the night while sleeping, all the calories you burn just by living, and calories normally expended at your listed activity level. When (If) you add in activity minutes -- it will also reflect that added to the total.

If you stay up til midnight you can see both meters switch over to 0

 

Welcome -- if you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask

Coach_K

Volunteer Moderator

Thank you!!

Hi Coach K.  I too had asked that question a couple days ago, I am new to this and it is a little confusing.  I thought I understood it but here is another question for you.  When I calculate what I burn in a day before doing any extra exercises it says 1700 for my age, height etc. so my top number after doing my exercises sould be 1700 plus whatever I burned doing my exercises right?  Well mine does not add up right.  So I thought I understood this right and maybe I don't.   Betty

Yeah. the math doesn't work for me either.  I took off some activites to see if I could make sense of it and couldn't.  I know I am trying to stat at 1500 calories and will just use the calorie calculator. 

As far as the "daily living" plus exercise calories go -- you can't add them and come up with your burn number -- the time that you used to exercise would have burned calories even if you didn't exercise -- you don't get double dipping burns.

If you took your daily burn w/out exercise as (EXAMPLES ONLY) 1700.  So, lets say you burn approximately 71 calories per hour.  Lets say you exercised for an hour, burning 300 calories.  Your new burn meter total would be 1700+300-71=1929 (no double dip on the burn) not the 2000 you were thinking of. The calories burned in the hour of exercise cancels out the calories burned in the hour of breathing,walking, etc.

If you are still having difficulties, please feel free to PM me with specifics.

Coach_K 

Thank you NOW it makes sence.