My fitness tracker (samsung gear sport) tells me I'm burning fewer calories than estimates say

tmoneyag99

Should I adjust down? What Would MFP-Community do?

shadow2soul

I had a Gear S2 for awhile and found its calorie estimate to be extremely low for me (based on experience and tracking).

I posted about it last year. I was getting 15,000 steps a day on avg and it was giving me an avg calorie burn (resting + active) of 1700 ish. That's really low for that amount of activity and is around what I eat to lose weight.

Tacklewasher

Split the difference for 6-8 weeks and see what the weight loss does vs. plan.

AnnPT77

Yup: Watching your actual weight loss rate for a month or two is the best answer to this kind of question.

If what you're comparing it to is the MFP exercise database, some people feel that overestimates exercise calories. For sure, most of its entries don't very clearly define the exercise intensity. There are exercises I do regularly that I know could vary in burn by up to a few hundred calories per hour depending on low vs. high intensity. Also - understandably - exercise beginners can have difficulty estimating their intensity, because many things feel pretty difficult/intense when one is new to the activity and not yet very fit.