Apple Watch not adjusting calories

1. Have you checked under: More>My Premium features>exercise calorie settings>increase my daily calorie goal? 2. Does the app you are using to track/record exercise have write permission to apple health?

I don’t have my watch set with Mfp but I wore both my blaze and my Apple Watch to compare totals for the day. My Apple Watch totaled 11,898 steps and my total calorie burn was 1,706, 300 of those calories were active. My blaze counted 10,800 steps with 2,130 cals burned. I have had my blaze for about a year and have been maintaining on anywhere from 2,200 to 2,600 depending on my workouts. This calorie count seems really low and disappoints me

ChelzFit wrote: »

I don’t have my watch set with Mfp but I wore both my blaze and my Apple Watch to compare totals for the day. My Apple Watch totaled 11,898 steps and my total calorie burn was 1,706, 300 of those calories were active. My blaze counted 10,800 steps with 2,130 cals burned. I have had my blaze for about a year and have been maintaining on anywhere from 2,200 to 2,600 depending on my workouts. This calorie count seems really low and disappoints me

I guess the real question is.... is Apple Health underestimating? or is Blaze over estimating? Which one is really correct? Some of the 3rd party apps for Apple have an adjustment/correction feature for the caloric burn formula - you can slightly increase or decrease the burn rate. But only applies during workout sessions.

I attend Orange Theory classes and always run my Apple Watch/Fitiv/Chest strap while at the same time OTF is recording my session using their own in-house system paired to my chest strap. They are both really close when it's all said and done(~100 cal). This morning OTF summary read 990 calorie burn, my AW setup recorded 875. Roughly 100 calories. I could easily go into my fitiv dashboard and tweak that formula up, but who knows which is right/wrong... I figure OTF probably tweaks the numbers up a bit to increase results for members... Close enough.

weberxxx wrote: »

So if my watch calculates 300 active calories burned then wouldn’t that mean that on top of my daily allowance in MFP those 300 calories would be a positive adjustment?

if those # "active calories" are from an initiated workout session, you should see the adjustment on the MFP dashboard.

Workouts, explicty started and stopped on the Apple Watch seem to sync well and in my experience are reasonable estimates of calorie burn (~25% too high for me, but lower than all alternative watch HR and calorie burn monitors). Steps (activity not part of a specific workout) however, are nuts and I am convinced they are just plain old bugged with MFP syncing.

I’m set to sedentary I weigh about 150lb. If I don’t workout in a given day I get minimal calories on MFP for activity: (16,000 Apple Watch steps result in about 120 calories on MFP). BUT if I have 16,000 steps and I have Apple Watch record a 15 minute swim I’ll get the expected about 130 calories for the swim HOWEVER the step calories will get brought down to 0. (Or if I had negative adjustments on it would be -70 or so calories.)

I gave up, and ignore steps and activity when planning my calories. This works now, while I am still actively trying to lose weight. But once maintenance hits I’m probably going to drop MFP all together because the sync bugs with the Apple Watch are too confusing for my math challenged brain.

And to the folks who think 100 calories or so from steps isn’t enough to bother with, well it is to me. With an estimated maintenance coming in under 1400 calories a day? You bet those step calories that don’t sync correctly with MFP are important. Especially when on days I don’t exercise and do get 16000 steps in the MFP sync gives me net calories MORE than days I get in a short 15 minute workout AND get 16000 steps in.

(And lol to everyone who tells me the Apple Watch sync is working as intended. I do understand math enough to know that I burn more calories on days where I workout AND get 16,000 steps than I do on days where I only get 16000 steps. So I know that step sync is out of whack.)

The workout will get pushed to MFP and be Apple data, but step adjustments are made on the MFP side yes.