The Calorie Bonus Explained

You can review your history directly inside the Lose It! app.

Go to Log → Calorie Bonus entry → View Details (or tap your activity graph). Here, Lose It! displays a daily timeline comparing your active burn against your Target Burn baseline. It shows you exactly what time of day your movement crossed your target baseline and unlocked your bonus!

If you wear a smartwatch (like an Apple Watch, Fitbit, or Garmin), individual workouts synced into Lose It! appear crossed out in your exercise log.

Don't worry! This is expected and correct. Your smartwatch is already tracking your total activity all day long. Lose It! crosses out the individual workout entry so those workout calories aren't counted twice in your food budget.

If you aren't seeing bonus calories added to your budget, one of these common reasons is likely why:

• You haven't passed your daily target yet: Bonuses are only awarded after your total daily activity passes your Target Burn or Target Steps baseline.
• High Activity Level Setting: If your profile Activity Level is set to Highly Active or Extremely Active, Lose It! expects more baseline movement before unlocking extra calories.
• Device sync delay: Make sure your device app (like Garmin Connect, Fitbit, or Apple Health) has synced its latest activity data with Lose It!.

An unusually large bonus is usually caused by profile stat mismatches or duplicate data logging:

• Profile Stat Typos: Double-check your weight, height, and age in both Lose It! and your tracker app (e.g., Apple Health or Fitbit). An incorrect weight entry can inflate estimated calorie burn.
• Duplicate App Connections: If you have multiple health apps writing step or workout data to the same platform (for instance, Strava and Apple Watch both sending workouts), activity might be counted twice.
• Time Zone Changes: Traveling across time zones can temporarily displace sync windows and cause a single day's activity total to spike.

In Lose It!, your Steps Calorie Bonus baseline is controlled entirely by your profile's Activity Level setting (Not Active = 5,000 steps, Somewhat Active = 7,750 steps, etc.).

Creating a custom step goal on your Goals screen changes your visual motivation target, but it does not change the baseline needed to earn bonus calories. To lower or raise your step bonus threshold, update your Activity Level under Profile → Goal → Activity Level.