Where do I put my calories burned. When using my smart watch?

Lullaby2021

where do I put my calories. From my Kalinco smart watch? Do I add them to my TDEE or my Bmr? with My smart watch I burn 220 calories no exercise. On days I do exercise. I burn more like 220+to 450. Where do I add these calories? To my maintenance calories or my Bmr calories?
I'm set at sedentary far as activity go.

glassyo

220 in a day? because...you need to put the watch in a drawer and find another activity tracker to use. 😀

But it looks like it's an all day activity tracker so that'll give you your alleged tdee and you would eat below that to lose weight.

BUT NOT IF IT'S ONLY TELLING YOU 220 FOR THE DAY!!!!!

Lullaby2021

glassyo wrote: »

220 in a day? because...you need to put the watch in a drawer and find another activity tracker to use. 😀

But it looks like it's an all day activity tracker so that'll give you your alleged tdee and you would eat below that to lose weight.

BUT NOT IF IT'S ONLY TELLING YOU 220 FOR THE DAY!!!!!

Yeah it's perday (I wear it all day, even when I sleep)Now it's telling me for today. I burned 153 all day and the night is almost over. I just brought this watch too : 0. May need to get a better more expensive one.

AnnPT77

I wonder if you're interpreting it correctly? Some fitness trackers separate activity calories from BMR calories, so depending on where one looks, the number may be activity calories, not total calories.

If you don't have a very energetic daily life, 220 is plausible for activity calories on a non-exercise day, or 450 on an exercise day, depending on what exercise you do.

I'm just speculating here, though - I know nothing about you.

If you're logging your eating on MFP, and got a calorie goal from MFP, you'd maybe want to log some of the calories as exercise calories in your MFP diary, but it's complicated to explain how many.

If you say what weight management goal you told MFP (how much you want to gain/lose per week, or maintain), whether you're male/female, and what calorie goal MFP gave you, we could speculate more intelligently.

Example: If you're female, and MFP gave you 1400 calories as a goal to lose one pound a week, the implication is that MFP thinks your maintenance calories would be 1900 daily. In that case, assuming your tracker is giving you a TDEE someplace (BMR + activity calories) you'd compare that number to 1900. If the tracker says your TDEE is (for example) 2100 one day, you'd record 200 exercise calories (the difference between MFP's assumed 1900 and your tracker's estimated TDEE for that day of 2100), so you'd have 1600 to eat, and keep the 500 calorie daily deficit to lose a pound a week.

If female & MFP gave you a goal of 1200, or mail and MFP gave you 1500, it can be a little more complicated, because MFP will never tell a woman to eat less than 1200 or a man to eat less than 1500, even if they specify some weight loss rate that would put them below those calories.

If you got your calorie goal from someplace besides MFP, I don't have enough info to suggest anything at all.

Lullaby2021

AnnPT77 wrote: »

I wonder if you're interpreting it correctly? Some fitness trackers separate activity calories from BMR calories, so depending on where one looks, the number may be activity calories, not total calories.

If you don't have a very energetic daily life, 220 is plausible for activity calories on a non-exercise day, or 450 on an exercise day, depending on what exercise you do.

I'm just speculating here, though - I know nothing about you.

If you're logging your eating on MFP, and got a calorie goal from MFP, you'd maybe want to log some of the calories as exercise calories in your MFP diary, but it's complicated to explain how many.

If you say what weight management goal you told MFP (how much you want to gain/lose per week, or maintain), whether you're male/female, and what calorie goal MFP gave you, we could speculate more intelligently.

Example: If you're female, and MFP gave you 1400 calories as a goal to lose one pound a week, the implication is that MFP thinks your maintenance calories would be 1900 daily. In that case, assuming your tracker is giving you a TDEE someplace (BMR + activity calories) you'd compare that number to 1900. If the tracker says your TDEE is (for example) 2100 one day, you'd record 200 exercise calories (the difference between MFP's assumed 1900 and your tracker's estimated TDEE for that day of 2100), so you'd have 1600 to eat, and keep the 500 calorie daily deficit to lose a pound a week.

If female & MFP gave you a goal of 1200, or mail and MFP gave you 1500, it can be a little more complicated, because MFP will never tell a woman to eat less than 1200 or a man to eat less than 1500, even if they specify some weight loss rate that would put them below those calories.

If you got your calorie goal from someplace besides MFP, I don't have enough info to suggest anything at all.

Thanks : ) I understand now