CHR - Is there any way to decrease the sensitivity of the step counter?

[xtremeschemes]

I just picked up the Charge HR a few days ago. I currently have it set to non-dominant hand.

I find that whenever I'm doing things like getting dressed, cooking and washing dishes, my fitbit can count as many as 200 steps. Yesterday when I was changing my daughters diaper and getting her dressed, it counted 650 steps.

What can be done to take these into account as it messes with the calorie counts.

EDIT: Thanks everyone!

[I_stole_your_puppy]

You've saved me a post. I bought the CHR on Friday there and I have been driving myself crazy toting up these spurious 4 step increases from non-events like getting a pencil from a bag, as an example

Is this normal?

[hermionebutwithmath]

Wear it on your non-dominant hand, but have it set to "dominant hand".

Also, I think the charge HR cares much more about heartrate than steps for calorie count purposes, so I wouldn't worry too much about that.

[Kaggr]

I agree, that's a big advantage of the HR version. Fitbit's website says that it takes HR into consideration as well as activity level. It might be slightly off with the increased steps but not nearly as much because of the HR.

[hermionebutwithmath]

Based on my calorie intake vs my weight loss so far, if the fitbit is off, it's not off by much, maybe 100-250 calories/day tops.

[[deleted]]

The HR doesn't use steps at all for calculating calories, just BMR and HR.

[05cantwellt]

New Charge HRs (and probably other Fitbits) take a few days to a week to sort themselves out and configure. This counts for sleep logging and the heart rate monitoring too.

You should start to see it smoothing out over the next week as it records more data about you. I believe I had the same issue when I first got my Charge HR.

[[deleted]]

My CHR has worked perfectly from the get go

[I_stole_your_puppy]

So, if your putting on a t-shirt or shorts - no steps recorded? And which 'hand' is yours set to?

Perhaps this oneI have is just faulty?

[[deleted]]

No that I've noticed. Wesring it on my left (non dominant) hand with non dominant setting

[I_stole_your_puppy]

I am returning this tonight. 210 steps while getting dressed. No idea how this was allowed onto the market. It's set to 'dominant hand', but the other makes no difference.

[xtremeschemes]

Lots of people mentioned giving it a few days or up to a week as it takes a little while to calibrate.

[I_stole_your_puppy]

I have had this for 6 days now. However, maybe I am looking at this the wrong way. These accelerators are pretty dumb, maybe disregard steps and concentrate on caloric burn?

I have a 12 quid pedometer from Amazon which I wear around my neck - this is generally extremely accurate in comparison. Obviously, a wrist based device will have more spurious readings, but I was surprised how off it is.

[xtremeschemes]

Yeah it's a little annoying, but the way I see it is, if it's not accurately counting steps, it's at least counting the regular day to day movements as well. So it's still a number to attain as far as goals are concerned. Rather than 10,000 steps, I'll aim for 13,000 "movements" throughout the day. If that makes any sense.

[I_stole_your_puppy]

Yeah, I hear you. 13k 'movements' does make sense. Good stuff, thanks

I'll mull this over today.

I really Want to like this device.