Garmin calorie calculation is wrong

LorrC53

last week 7,000 steps from my Garmin Connect app calculsted 700 calories (ish). This week 8,000 steps is calculating just 236 calories. What is causing this please?

durden

That's totally normal. In short- steps themselves are not actually a factor in your calorie adjustment. Your device (in this case Garmin) is recording your overall activity and sending that over to us, in addition to your steps which may or may not be a factor in how many calories you actually burned.

Please see: https://support.myfitnesspal.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032623871-What-is-the-Calorie-Adjustment-in-my-Exercise-Diary for more info