I'm new here and I have a question.......?

You know that burn meter beside the number of calories you've consumed? My Basil...thing...BMR..Or BRM..whatever it is..I checked online and mine said 1398. But my burn meter says 1900 something. Someone told me that it also included your activities. But when I add an activity I did today, like  walking, why would  my estimated number of calories burned go up if the activities are already added?

Your green meter is the eat meter and as you add your food to the log, it will increase. The little number at the top of this is your daily goal for the number of calories that you should eat by the end of the day.

The blue meter is your burn meter, the little number at the top is what you should have burned off by the end of the day. The big number in the blue meter will keep going up during the day to show you how much you have burned off as you go along. It will have the average amount for the settings that you gave when you filled all your details in, but if you then went walking for an hour or went on a bike ride and then logged that, the total burned will go up even further because it is an 'extra' exercise.

If, for example, your daily eat goal was 1500 cals, but you actually burned off 2000 through your daily activities and additional exercise etc, you will have a deficit of 500 calories. It is said that a daily deficit of 500 cals per day will give you a 1lb per week loss of weight. If you want to lose weight, you should keep the amount you eat less than the amount you burn off, not necessarily by 500. The smaller the deficit, the longer if will take to lose the weight, but it is better to lose slower and steadier over a longer period than quickly.

I saw the other post with you age/weight etc on it. Obviously, you are still young and still growing, so be sensible with what you are eating. Make sure you are eating enough calories, lots of fruit and veg etc, and that you are getting enough exercise. It is healthier to burn off the calories by exercising rather than not eating enough to begin with.

I hope that this helps make things clearer?