Hello,
Fitbit user since October 2024, I am very satisfied with my fitbit sense 2 watch. However, I have a problem with one point.
I think that the number of kcal burned that Fitbit estimates is overestimated.
In fact, I note exactly the calories I ingest, so I know exactly that I have an average caloric intake over several weeks, several months of 2300 kcal.
I am 181 cm tall and 90 kilos and I'm 39 years old. I work out twice a week.
Fitbit displays an average calorie burn at 2750.
That's an extra 450 calories per day, and if this figure were real, I'd have to lose weight.
In fact, for one kilo of fat, the estimated value is 7500 calories.
With an advertised deficit of 450 Kcal per day, in 7 days I should lose around 500 grams, and over my 4 weeks of use, I'd be down to two kilos.
Of course, that's absolutely not the case, I've neither gained nor lost a single gram, and that's not what I want anyway.
Connected watches always tend to overestimate the value of calories burned, certainly to please the user 🙂
I've had a lot of connected watches, and the fitbit ones are really good, but they overestimate far too much! It should be possible to adjust calories with a correction factor because all humans are different, and this is even truer for calorie energy burn.
For example, in my case, I would apply a correction factor of approximately 0.84
2750 * 0.84 = 2300 Kcal burned
I hope this request will be considered, I really have the impression that many fitbit users encounter this kind of problem.
Regards
