I input what i do and for how long every day, and it says 1127, but the counter keeps going up even when i have not added anything, why is that. Also is the estimated calories burned listed what i should be burning a day???
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It changes as the day goes on because we burn calories by just being alive.
i read that you should log your total calories burned at midnight into your journal. What if you cannot login at midnight before the counters 0 out. I look at my calories burned for previous days, but it only shows the activities i entered and what i burned do them, which is different than the meter becuase that calculates what burn just for living.
Samm0711 - the burn meter shows the number of calories you burn given the level of activity you stated when you created/updated your profile. Your Burn Meter will show the same value everyday BEFORE you log your activities..
You can easily log all your activities once you have completed them and the Total Estimate (shown under Burn Meter) will show how many calories you will have burned in the entire day even if the day is not over yet.
I've noticed that my burn meter (total estimate) doesn't equal my starting burn meter amount plus my activities (cals burned).
Example: If I start at 1860cal total estimate, then do activites totaling 150cal burned... my final burn meter total estimate is usually less than the 1860+150=2010. That's what it should be, but it never works out that way... not sure why.
Wow, I hope that makes sense. LOL...
Original Post by smmuirhead:
I've noticed that my burn meter (total estimate) doesn't equal my starting burn meter amount plus my activities (cals burned).
Example: If I start at 1860cal total estimate, then do activites totaling 150cal burned... my final burn meter total estimate is usually less than the 1860+150=2010. That's what it should be, but it never works out that way... not sure why.
Wow, I hope that makes sense. LOL...
It's because although you work out and input an X amount of calories burned, the counter will deduct the calories that you would have burned in that same hour just from functioning.. example -- 150 cals of X activity in one hour - 70 cals burned by your body from just funtioning= 80 cals
You rock! Thanks for filling me in... it's been driving me crazy! That does make sense.
My pleasure!
