Apple Watch question!

meachemcrystal795

My Apple Watch says I burned 500+ calories today.
This app says I only burned 33 calories.
I know my iPhone health app is synced because my workouts sync up (33 calories=strenth training)
Do I need to adjust my calories any?

springlering62

Hi, @meachemcrystal795 welcome to MFP!

Apple Watch also records activity from just living; walking around the house, doing laundry, getting the mail.

All of that contributes to the Move ring. I usually get a full spin just doing normal stuff.

You should have already taken this into account when you set your activity level, i. e. Sedentary, active, highly active.

You don’t get calorie credit outside of activity level for normal day to day living. That would be double dipping. (One reason that 99% of users who record and count “housework” as a calorie burn wonder why they’re not losing. I’m a demon house cleaner and was still obese.)

Additional recorded exercise (walking, running, the myriad list that Apple Watch offers) advances the Move ring further.

You have to touch the running man emblem, choose your workout type and touch it to “start workout”. When you’re done, you hit “end”.

If you’ve synced your watch properly to MFP, you’ll see the calories credit at the very bottom of your daily diary.

When you reach the point you’re recording more than (appx) 400 calories a day of additional exercise calories, you may also start seeing an Apple Watch Calorie Adjustment. That’s a long explanation and not worth bothering over til you start seeing a “negative” adjustment.

This is my own exercise diary synced yesterday. I’m helping a family member move, which has including stripping wallpaper, painting, scrubbing floors, not to mention moving so much *kitten* I can’t even bear to think about it. There’s no category for it, so I’ve categorized it as “flexibility”, which isn’t typically a high burn, just to get some credit because I’ve been working freaking hard.



You’ll see a -500 negative Apple Watch calorie adjustment. My watch recognizes that I’m set as “highly active” anyway and has taken some of those flexibility calories back.

Your diary should show similar line items for intentional exercise.

springlering62

Here’s a more normal day with real life exercises recorded. That ^^^ was not the best example, although it’s been my life for the last two weeks, lol.



You’ll see the negative adjustment was smaller even though quantity of exercise calories burned was high.

Your Apple Watch will “learn” you and your habits and become very intuitive with it, if you use it consistently. Mine knows that all that “flexibility” needs to be heavily adjusted.

Man, technology is amazing.