Active calories vs total calories

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ChelleTrell
ChelleTrell Posts: 49 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I track my exercises with an app on my Apple Watch and it shows total calories burned and active calories burned. I was wondering which number I should use when logging my exercise in the MFP app. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,565 Member
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    If you have Health Kit connected to MFP, it'll take care of everything
  • Lillymoo01
    Lillymoo01 Posts: 2,865 Member
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    Just active calories. Your NEAT (non active calories) is already included in your deficit. In saying that, syncing the apps together is so much easier.
  • ChelleTrell
    ChelleTrell Posts: 49 Member
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    Sweet, thanks for the advice! I tried syncing all my apps together but everything kept disappearing. I’ll just track the active calories until I can figure out all this tech stuff. :D
  • ITUSGirl51
    ITUSGirl51 Posts: 192 Member
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    My Apple Watch stopped syncing exercise calories when I update MFP this week. I just log active exercise calories manually in MFP.
  • dmensik7
    dmensik7 Posts: 1 Member
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    How do you sync MFP and the apple workouts?
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
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    Magic.

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