Calorie adjustment

vixi8183

Hiya, I am wondering if someone can explain the calorie adjustment thing to me. I have an Apple Watch which tracks my steps... today I have done about 6000 steps, and it gave me a calorie adjustment for that, but then after I added an exercise (I went swimming), that calorie adjustment from the steps I had done earlier disappeared and has gone back to zero. I don't really understand it so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Vicki.

LivingtheLeanDream

When you manually add an exercise trackers will do an adjustment, they think you are logging double. By the end of the day it should reflect your true calorie burn for the day.
I'm just going by what I know (Fitbit) but I'm sure the Apple watch will work in a similar way. Hope you get some more feedback from other Apple watch users though.

ritzvin

At least with Garmin, the daily expenditure seems to be calculated solely on what the step tracker sees - instead of adding up workouts and steps and then not counting the steps amassed during a workout--so it will then adjust MFP to only count as much as the step tracker saw. This isn't an issue for workouts that the step tracker will see such as running and walking (you'll get the credit), but anything not visible to the step tracker (even when logged with the garmin device using a heart rate monitor) will get nixed in the adjustment. If you work out regularly instead of relying on adding some extra steps to your day, and have MFP set to sedentary, I would suggest turning off negative adjustments (or not bothering with step tracking at all). Otherwise, it'll pull stuff like this: