Does the Burn Meter Max Out?

I can't seem to understand the burn meter. I added activity totalling 700 calories but the burn meter doesn't add it up. I have a BMR of 1730, I did 700 calories worth of excercise so shouldn't my burn meter read 2430? Right now it reads 2250. Strange..anyone out there understand it?

I believe the burn meter takes into account how many calories you would have naturally burned during that amount of time if you had remained sedentary, and subtracts that from the total you burned. Hope this helps!

The burn meter subtracts out the calories it assumed you would burn had you not done the exercise, before adding in the calories for exercise. So if you would have burned 180 calories in that time, had you remained sedentary, it subtracts those before adding the 700.

Also, just a side note, but your burn at sedentary is not "BMR". BMR is what you'd burn if you were in a coma (less active than sedentary) and CC does not provide you with this number. If you want to find your BMR, you can calculate it at www.phord.com/cc

Original Post by msprink:

I believe the burn meter takes into account how many calories you would have naturally burned during that amount of time if you had remained sedentary, and subtracts that from the total you burned. Hope this helps!

This.  Gym machines want you to feel accomplished, so they don't perform this function.  That's where a lot of people get confused.

Just in case the answer you've already gotten wasn't what you were looking for, I thought I'd add: Your burn meter won't read 2430 in the big number at the time you enter the exercise.  The big number is showing you what you've burned so far on this day.  So if you usually burn 1730 in an entire day and you enter 700 cals worth of exercise (as in, CC is reading it as 700 cals burned) at 5PM, you will only see what you have naturally burned between midnight and 5PM, plus the 700, in the big number.  You'd only see "2430" in the big number at 11.59PM, when you'd finished burning your 1730 that you naturally burn in a day.

But the smaller number up top, "Total Estimate: **** cal," should read 2430.

thank you everyone ...very helpful