Resting energy

Is there a way to turn off resting energy? I’ve just been deleting the resting calories from my Livestrong app but it’s annoying mostly because those calories are not factored in when you diet. I don’t understand why it’s a feature to begin with - who cares how many calories I burn while I’m resting? If a person factored those in to their diet they would end up being a very chunky monkey.