AppleWatch Exercise -log active or total calories?

jcavanna2
jcavanna2 Posts: 777 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Hi..hope this isn't too silly a question but would you log your active calories or total calories from your AppleWatch Workouts onto MFP? Currently I am logging active calories - appreciate the feedback!

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  • annaskiski
    annaskiski Posts: 1,212 Member
    Active calories are correct.

    Part of the 'total calories' are the calories you would have burned anyway if you had just been sleeping on the couch. The MFP calorie estimate already includes this, so you just want to add the extra calories you burned by exercising, i.e. the 'active' calories.

    You will find many devices and even MFP report the total calories for a workout, which is not actually correct, and why most people only eat half their calories back....
  • annaskiski
    annaskiski Posts: 1,212 Member
    And btw, you can have MFP import the calories automatically, so you don't have to manually enter them....
  • jcavanna2
    jcavanna2 Posts: 777 Member
    @annaskiski - thank you so much for the response! I think I need to remove my watch and re-add it as a device because nothing really automatically flows over to MFP.
  • RosieRose7673
    RosieRose7673 Posts: 438 Member
    jcavanna2 wrote: »
    @annaskiski - thank you so much for the response! I think I need to remove my watch and re-add it as a device because nothing really automatically flows over to MFP.

    Yeah try re adding it! I used to use an Apple Watch and it would automatically sync my active calories with it. My MFP calorie total at the end of the day was +/- 100 each day based on my Apple Watch.
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