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• The steps displayed represent your daily total. Your Zip resets each day at midnight.
• Walking and running steps are displayed as a combined total.
Distance
• Zip calculates your distance based on your step count and stride length. Your stride
length is estimated based on your height, weight, age, and gender. You also have the op-
tion of entering your own stride length for more accuracy. (Link here to Calculating Stride
length)
• Distance can be viewed in either miles or kilometers by changing your settings.
tbit.com/user/prole/edit
Calorie Burn
• Zip records how many calories you’ve burned based on your activities throughout the
day and your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). (link to BMR denition/explanation of BMR)
• When you manually log an activity on Fitbit.com, the calorie burn associated with it will
be added to your Zip the next time you sync.
• The total displayed is how many calories you have burned since midnight, including your
BMR.
Clock
• The clock shows the current time. If the time is not correct, please sync your Zip and
make sure that have selected the appropriate time zone in your Fitbit.com prole.