Is my Apple Watch giving me crazy calorie burn numbers or am I just crazy?

Losingthedamnweight

I feel like the update last month screwed it up but not sure. But I’ve been burning tons of calories seemingly doing nothing. I’ll just have a chill day at home being lazy and doing nothing. Will have gotten 2000 steps and my daily burn is like 3000 calories.

Take yesterday for example. I didn’t go to the gym. I didn’t do much of anything actually. I just went to the store to grab a couple things and then out to a haunted house for a couple hours and it said my active calories were 700 and the total for yesterday was like 3200. And I only got like 6400 steps.

For the record: I am 34 years old male at 5’8 and weigh 228lbs. I’m not skinny but this feels like very high numbers. Here’s a couple screenshots. It says my resting calories were 2500. That seems really high? And my active 700 for barely doing anything

Maxxitt

https://www.sailrabbit.com/bmr/ This is a pretty decent site for estimating TDEE at various levels of activity. I have found with my Apple Watch that the daily burn is a bit generous, but not hugely so, and find it pretty stingy when it comes to counting my activity as "exercise." The only way to tell is for you to keep good calories-in data for a month or two and track scale weight.

Edited to add - if your heart rate is elevated when you're leisurely walking around, you might be getting some "active calorie" inflation. You can check your HR data out through Apple Health.

cannedgoo

I also noticed an inflation with the new Apple Watch update. I’m assuming they changed part of their algorithm somewhere for what it counts as movement calories. With that said it’s sedentary calories are almost to the integer the same as what my Fitbit would say they were. I’ve been subtracting 2-300ish from its estimated daily totals and my projected loss has been spot on from there

MelanieCN77

I saw a thread on Reddit about this, they may have more overall experience there.