Forgive me if this same question has been posted before, or if I'm posting this in the wrong place.

I just got my very own FIT BIT! I'm very excited. Just one question though:
How do you set your calories burned goal?

I'm not sure if I'm doing this correctly. I figured out how many calories I'd need to burn each day in order to lose 3 lbs/week (which is super high for me, but I thought, hey, what the heck), then add that to my BMR. Does that sound right?

So mine is: 1602 (BMR) + (3500*3)/7 = 3102 calories burned per day.

Is this how people set that goal?
Thanks for any input!

Hey, I've had mine for a week and I love it. I use the FitBit site for the calorie calculation. I just make sure to try to be under the estimate because I'm not Type-A on entering the food

I'm using mine for the first time today and it looks like its over counting the steps taken... ie, when i walk 10 steps it says I took 13. What can I do to fix this? any ideas?

It doesn't seem quite right to me. First of all, even if you do nothing special to "burn" calories, you'll use more calories than your BMR unless you're comatose for 24 hours a day. Here's how I would do it:

1. If your BMR is 1,600, multiply that by 1.2 to get the number of calories you use per day just living and breathing. That would be 1,920 calories.

2. So if you eat 1,920 calories per day without doing any exercise, you'll neither lose nor gain weight. (It goes without saying that everyone is different, but this is a ballpark.)

3. If you want to lose 3 pounds per week WITHOUT eating less, then you have to burn an extra 10,500 calories per week or 1,500 calories per day through exercise (which is a **** of a lot). That would bring your total calorie burn to 1,920 + 1,500 = 3,420.

4. An alternative would be to eat 500 fewer calories (i.e., 1,490) and burn 1,000 extra calories through exercise (which is still excessive, in my opinion). More realistic, though still ambitious, would be to eat 500 fewer calories and burn off 500 through exercise every day, which would lead to a loss of 2 pounds per week.

F.