Calories are wrong

Hi
I’m a new user here. I’ve had a fitbit for years and used it to track my calories and to keep my weight steady.

But my new lily2 is showing a wrong calorie burn, if I follow the burned calories from my lily then I need to eat 200 to 300 calories more during the day, which doesn’t make sense to me…

I understand that the devices are different, but such a difference cannot be correct.

How can I fix this?

0 trux 4 months ago

How do you know which device is correct? You cannot change the algorithm calculating the Calories. If you want that the watch shows less burned calories, you would have to keep your heart rate lower. There are some parameters, though, that can have a great impact on the accuracy - the Max Heart Rate, and especially the Resting Heart Rate, so make sure they are set correctly. Changing the body weight or height would also impact the calculation, so make sure they are correctly set too.

In your place I would simply look for the consistency. If you see that eating as much as you burn, helps keeping your weight stable, there is nothing to worry. You then just adjust the consumation lower or higher, according whether you want to lose or gain the weight. The food Calories calculation is rarely accurate anyway, just like any estimate of burned energy without doing a test in a calorimetric lab.