Yesterday's Burn Meter?

Hi!

How do i view yesterday's burn meter amount?  Yesterday was my first day, and I hadn't put any activity in, but I still wanted to see how much calories I had burned.

Help!

Thanks!

Hi,

I'm not 100% sure, but I think your burn meter stays the same day to day unless your weight changes.  If I am wrong someone please correct me.

-Mr. A

I set my burn meter to sedentary, then add all my exercise, since its very different for me everyday, some days I workout 3 hours, some days 2 hours.  so what you can do is take your original amount of  calories from the burn meter, which is the amount it tells you you will burn doing absolutely nothing (that's if its set to sedentary).  Then, take that number and add to it all the activities you did to burn calories (which it will do automatically when you add the exercises, but it will not show you what the total was for the day before).  So for example, my burn meter shows that I will burn approx 1800 a day, and that's doing nothing.  So if I walk 4 miles I will enter it in the Activity Log and it tells me I burned like 250 calories.  The meter will then add the 1800 to the 250 and that would be my total for the day.  You can set the burn meter to moderately active or one of the other settings and then not add activities if you want.  I exercise a lot and do a lot of different types of activities so its much more accurate this way for me.

This is the only way I found to get the total for the previous day, I was surprised too after my first day to see the meter start over again and no way to check it out.

Original Post by snoopini:

So if I walk 4 miles I will enter it in the Activity Log and it tells me I burned like 250 calories.  So I would add the 1800 to the 250 and that would be my total for the day. So just go to the Activity Log and then add your total calories you will burn with the burn meter.

I think I read on some other CC post (sorry, can't remember where), that CC doesn't simply add Daily burn + Activity.  I think CC subtracts the number of calories you would have burned anyway during your average non-workout day.  If you burn 10 calories an hour doing nothing, but burned 250 calories walking for an hour, you don't burn the 10 + the 250 you burn walking for that hour, you just burn the 250.   The formula is more like Total calories burned = Daily burn w/o workout + workout - calories would have burned doing nothing for same time as the workout.  I figure that it's all approximations, anyway, so I don't think it makes too much difference.

I do agree, however, that it would be nice to be able to access the side-by-side comparision of total calories consumed vs calories burned page like you can on "My home".  Perhaps if CC updates it webiste one day, that might be a possibility.  Hint.