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Apple Watch and My Fitness Pal

morganskove
morganskove Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I have a pretty large discrepancy for how many calories my Apple Watch says I’ve burned as my active calories throughout the day and the number of calories My Fitness Pal is saying I burned. What is the reason for this? Should I just level up my activity level to compensate?

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  • frager2019
    frager2019 Posts: 3 Member
    I am having the same problem. I know after doing a 1 hr class and then 40 min on elliptical I burned more than 366cals. It says I had 21,000 steps. Very annoying!
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    The sync between apple and MFP is faulty. It is recommended that you use a third party app called Pacer. Unlink the watch with MFP, link it to Pacer, and then link Pacer to MFP. Pacer has a free version.

    This is what I do and I find that the exercise adjustment is about 90 percent right on pure movement days. On days that I allow the watch to track my strength training the adjustment is off so I usually just deduct most of what it thinks I have burned during that activity.
  • frager2019
    frager2019 Posts: 3 Member
    I will try that. Thanks!
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