Garmin Forerunner 15 Questions

kristinsnm
kristinsnm Posts: 67 Member
edited November 13 in Motivation and Support
I have started using my Garmin Forerunner 15 to track my daily activity. However, just walking through out my daily routine gives me wayyyyy too many calories when I sync to my fitness pal. It gives me back more calories than an entire daily calorie goal for me. For example it said that I burned 1800 calories over the course of the day and eventhough I had eaten all 1200 calories for that day, it told me I had 1800 cals still to consume....which made my projected weight loss look insane, as if I had done P90X all day, everyday.

How do I fix this or even interpret what my calorie burn actually was for my daily activity?

Any help would be soooooo helpful, thanks!

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  • cheshirecatastrophe
    cheshirecatastrophe Posts: 1,395 Member
    I'm not sure you'll love my answer, but here it is:

    I gave my fiance the FR15 for Christmas. :) We've basically decided that the *calorie* counting feature is worthless. (My FR220 for running gives me very unrealistic calorie burns, too). He just uses it to track his steps/activity each day and make sure he is moving around enough. (It works great for him--he's always competing against himself to score more steps than the day before or the same day last week).

    He then uses MFP to set a target calorie level for sedentary or lightly active lifestyle depending on the season and his job responsibilities. He un-synced his Garmin and MFP to avoid, as you observe, Tony Horton All Day Every Day.
  • kristinsnm
    kristinsnm Posts: 67 Member
    Yeah, that is what I am going to do too. I think that it will be a very useful tool to challenge myself from day to day, but completely ridiculous to sync to my fitness pal because it makes it as if I would be losing a pound or two per day when I haven't done anything else except my regular walking throughout my day to day life. Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad someone else thought this was odd too.
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