Apple Watch

Maryaly05
Maryaly05 Posts: 2 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
My Apple Watch showed I burned 2269 calories yesterday. The days total I guess. How accurate do you think that is?

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  • kksmom1789
    kksmom1789 Posts: 281 Member
    Maryaly05 wrote: »
    My Apple Watch showed I burned 2269 calories yesterday. The days total I guess. How accurate do you think that is?

    curious as well. I don't really pay attention to the calories burned from my watch but yesterday mine said 2793 total but only 665 were move calories
  • shanicewheeler21
    shanicewheeler21 Posts: 2 Member
    Hey, I’m new to the app, can I pair my Apple Watch with this app to track my steps and workouts?
  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,147 Member
    Apple watch is a lot more accurate for me than my fitbit which inflates by about 200-300 over. I only recently started using it. My total I assume you mean the # under Move ring? Mine is anywhere from 1700 to 2100 and I am a short gal so my rmr (resting vs move) is not that high. If you are taller and heavier 2269 seems reasonable.
  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,147 Member
    shanicewheeler21 wrote: »
    Hey, I’m new to the app, can I pair my Apple Watch with this app to track my steps and workouts?


    Yes you can but it is a lot more roundabout than the fitbit as apple steps do not directly come across. Do a search of these forums and you will find some detailed steps and ways to connect them so they sync up correctly.
  • Maryaly05
    Maryaly05 Posts: 2 Member
    I’m short too! 5’0 with about 70 pounds to lose. I haven’t worked out yet but I’m at 2100 burned today
  • shanicewheeler21
    shanicewheeler21 Posts: 2 Member
    Thank you so much!
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,481 Member
    edited January 2020
    What are you looking at? Today I walked 11.4 miles for 22,531 steps, did a Pilates class, did upper body work with a trainer for an hour, and did a 75 minute dynamic yoga class. My move calories were 1406 when my watch battery finally died. My total calories, which are visible only on the phone app are 2817.

    If you are seeing 2,000+ calories under the “move ring”, either something is out of whack, or utmost props to you for absolutely killing it.

    Just make sure you aren’t using the higher number to calculate exercise calories you can eat back.

    And it’s my experience, fwiw, that you don’t need to add back calories for steps that are taken outside of times walking exercise. Those steps are already taken into account when you set your activity level at the get go.

    ETA: neither the “move” nor the “total” figure is the exercise figure you base add-back calories on. Apple will automatically export the exercise calories into MFP, and they will show at the top of your food diary. It’s also worthwhile to do a quick glance at the bottom of the page to make sure the exercise calories weren’t accidentally doubled, as happens every so often (about once a week for me).
  • bz2018
    bz2018 Posts: 143 Member
    I like apples. Galas are on the come up, just watch.
  • SnifterPug
    SnifterPug Posts: 746 Member
    I find the Apple calculated calories to be roughly right, but it gets my exercise calories from the Myzone heart rate monitor I use so I can't comment on whether its own exercise calorie calcs are accurate.
  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,147 Member
    bz2018 wrote: »
    I like apples. Galas are on the come up, just watch.

    my horse was a gala man for many many years but over the past 5 he has switched to honeycrisp. He has excellent taste. We share. :)


  • bz2018
    bz2018 Posts: 143 Member
    SummerSkier wrote: »
    bz2018 wrote: »
    I like apples. Galas are on the come up, just watch.

    my horse was a gala man for many many years but over the past 5 he has switched to honeycrisp. He has excellent taste. We share. :)


    The audacity.. 🤣
  • jdhcm2006
    jdhcm2006 Posts: 2,254 Member
    springlering62 wrote: »
    What are you looking at? Today I walked 11.4 miles for 22,531 steps, did a Pilates class, did upper body work with a trainer for an hour, and did a 75 minute dynamic yoga class. My move calories were 1406 when my watch battery finally died. My total calories, which are visible only on the phone app are 2817.

    If you are seeing 2,000+ calories under the “move ring”, either something is out of whack, or utmost props to you for absolutely killing it.

    Just make sure you aren’t using the higher number to calculate exercise calories you can eat back.

    And it’s my experience, fwiw, that you don’t need to add back calories for steps that are taken outside of times walking exercise. Those steps are already taken into account when you set your activity level at the get go.

    ETA: neither the “move” nor the “total” figure is the exercise figure you base add-back calories on. Apple will automatically export the exercise calories into MFP, and they will show at the top of your food diary. It’s also worthwhile to do a quick glance at the bottom of the page to make sure the exercise calories weren’t accidentally doubled, as happens every so often (about once a week for me).

    That total number is just your TDEE. So being in the 2000s is actually pretty easy for people who move around a bit. On Friday, that total for me was 2367, which was 710 of moving and 1657 resting. I was on my feet all day and climbing many stairs repeatedly throughout the day & night. On Thursday, I wasn’t on my feet that much but I lifted and the number was 2320. However, on Tuesday which was a fairly light day for me the total was 1994. I still got in a fair number of steps and stairs even though I had to skip my regularly scheduled workout due to work.

    These numbers have been in line with the number a TDEE calculator gave me. I said I worked out 3-5 times a week and the number given was 2044. It jumps to 2214 when I guesstimate my BF% (the number I received from my doctor’s scale which is almost 10% lower than the one my smart scale gives me so I take both of those numbers with a grain of salt)

    So I’ve found the Apple Watch to be pretty accurate on the TDEE front. Or as accurate as a fit watch can be.
  • panda4153
    panda4153 Posts: 418 Member
    I’ve been using my Apple Watch and app for years to monitor my TDEE, and track it against calories consumed and rate of loss and gain. It’s spot on for me. I use a spreadsheet to input all the numbers and calculate the expected loss/gain against my actual and on a monthly cadence it’s within 0.1lbs difference, usually in my favor meaning I very slightly lost at a higher rate then expected.

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