Fitday calculating AMR, how can I make it stop?

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Lilyofthevalley

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I'm not sure whether this is the right forum, but I couldn't figure out any other section to post it in...

Fitday keeps calculating my AMR and adding it to the calories burned... Even on days I don't exercise, fitday says I'm burning around 2700, which I'm pretty sure isn't right. On days I do exercise, it says I'm burning in the 3000's. I'm fairly positive that that's an excessive amount.

Now, I know this is a technical question, but I was hoping since so many people here use it, someone could give me an answer. I've tried customizing my metabolic baseline (activities log>>[lifestyle level]>>customize) but it just doesn't work. I really hope someone can help, because it's giving me a calorie balance that isn't right. I generally use that as a guideline, but I realized it was inaccurate after about a week of losing nothing.

Once again, sorry if this is the wrong forum...

Thanks for reading!
 
Are you talking about the calories you burn just being alive? I knw for me, fitday always had me in the 2000's on days I did, well, nothing. And the days I exercised they added on to it? If so, you do burn calories just being alive but you have to burn over your normal in order to lose weight.
 
PaperAirPlanes said:
Are you talking about the calories you burn just being alive? I knw for me, fitday always had me in the 2000's on days I did, well, nothing. And the days I exercised they added on to it? If so, you do burn calories just being alive but you have to burn over your normal in order to lose weight.
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Yeah, I feel like it's kind of throwing me off... usually for someone my size, it's somewhere around 1650, but I'd like fitday to use THAT for days I don't do anything... and I have no idea why they ADD to the active metabolic rate. Bah.

Thanks for your response! :D
 
I don't fully trust fitday sometimes, did you check your weight charts to make sure fitday is logging them correctly? [you probably did, I'm just trying to think of things that would affect it]
 
yeah. Is there any other calorie logging site that doesn't do that?
 
wait... maybe that solved it. When I added sleep to my activity log, it dropped the calories significantly. Perhaps this is a way around the problem?:conehead:


:D Thanks!
 
Lilyofthevalley said:
wait... maybe that solved it. When I added sleep to my activity log, it dropped the calories significantly. Perhaps this is a way around the problem?:conehead:


:D Thanks!
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I had that same problem, then I noticed it had me seated all day for an entire 24 hours-which obviously wasn't the case. :blush5:
 
It still isn't quite right-- off by a few hundred calories-- but it's much better than it was.
 
LowFatMilk said:
Well, you really have to consider that you never quite know how many calories you're burning in a day. Or maybe you made your lifestyle too active?
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I'm not sure. I put it all the way to sedentary lifestyle, and it was still 1950 on days I wasn't exercising. :confused: That's still about 300 too high, according to all the other sites I've been to. I DON'T GET IT!!!
haha... thanks for suffering my complaining.

:)
 
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