To everyone who is asking about the Burn Meter

The EAT meter TOP number shows the number of calories you have selected as your target goal (in your account settings -- you can change it)

The EAT meter BOTTOM number reflects the calories you are logging into your food log.

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

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Also, you will notice, on your home page, in the upper right, next to the burn meter box, a question mark ? in a box.  This is the Help key!

http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/help.php?id= 43

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Thanks for explaining the Burn Meter and the help box.  I feel a bit dumb for entering in all of my daily activities.  I'm up and down a lot at work and it was a bit cumbersome to keep track of all my ups and downs and walking around through the day.  I like that you can still manually add in the activities and it will still be fairly accurate.  It will definitely make my life a bit easier if I only log in my gym time.