sedentary plus exercise...it doesnt add up!

Why is it that when I add my 600cal burn to my sedentary 1900cal daily burn, I don't get a total of 2500...but 2440? This happens everyday. I'm sure there is an explanation, but I just don't understand it...

It's because the meter takes it into account that you can't be doing both at once....so it takes away the calories that you would be just sitting around...ug, I'm not explaining this well!

It basically is that you burn let's say a calorie per min a day....that would mean you burn about 1440 roughly, and that's sedentary.....Then, you go grocery shopping or workout (say 30 mins)....those calories get added to the total, but then it subtracts off the 30 mins from the 1440 cal burn, cuz that would be double counting the 30 mins....it'd be in the exercise AND the sedentary count.

Hopefully someone has a better explanation! haha

From other posts that I have seen, it is because CC takes away the amount of calories you would have burned anyways if you were not working out.

So if you burned 600cal in an hour then CC would deduct the amount of calories you would burn being sedentary in that same hour. So in your case you would have burned 60cal sitting on your bum. 

I think the other posts probably explain this better and in more depth than me, but thats what I got from them all!

vicki8seekers: Got there before me and explained it better haha.

I think you explained it perfectly