Does calorie burn include resting calories?

Hi,
Does anyone know if the calorie burn includes the calories you would burn if you were just resting (watching tv, for example) or does it just the calories burned above and beyond your resting rate?
This would greatly help me with inputting it into my calorie tracker.|||The calories calculated are beyond a person's resting rate.|||Calorie burn for just sitting doing nothing is so minimal it really wouldn't matter. I would assume the game is counting the calories burned doing the exercise.|||

The calories calculated are beyond a person's resting rate.

Excellent, thank you for very much for this information.|||

Calorie burn for just sitting doing nothing is so minimal it really wouldn't matter. I would assume the game is counting the calories burned doing the exercise.

Actually I burn a little over a calorie a minute as my resting rate, so over half an hour that's thirty extra calories I wouldn't be accounting for. Which is the difference between creamer in my coffee, so it's important to me. :)
http://www.shapeup.org/interactive/rmr1.php
Resting Metabolic Rate Calculator|||I also wonder if the calorie counting here accounts for the recovery time. A person's metabolism continues to run high for a good while after a workout ends. When you go from step aerobics to making lunch you don't just instantly return to your resting rate of calorie burning.
Jeff|||

I also wonder if the calorie counting here accounts for the recovery time. A person's metabolism continues to run high for a good while after a workout ends. When you go from step aerobics to making lunch you don't just instantly return to your resting rate of calorie burning.
Jeff

In short, I do not believe current research supports your statement. It's an idea you see a lot in pop culture and I thought it was true too...
http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/anatomyandphysiology/a/rmr.htm
Summary

Regular exercise has many benefits and plays an important role in increasing our daily energy expenditure. However, despite what we may read in many popular magazines, the increase in energy expenditure from exercise occurs primarily while we are exercising, rather than due to any sizeable exercise- induced elevations in our resting energy expenditure.
Reprinted with permission of the American College of Sports Medicine, ACSM Fit Society® Page, Summer 2004, p. 4-5.

|||Thanks Kaliena0, I love learning stuff like this.
Thanks very much for the information!
Jeff