Active & total calories - iWatch

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cessi0909
cessi0909 Posts: 654 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Mainly for curiosity, do you add your active calories on the iWatch to your total calories to get your actual end total of calories burned throughout the day?

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  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,344 Member
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    Total calories already includes the active calories.
  • cessi0909
    cessi0909 Posts: 654 Member
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    AnvilHead wrote: »
    Total calories already includes the active calories.

    Thank you very much!
  • yono27
    yono27 Posts: 14 Member
    edited April 2023
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    No it doesn't, not in the sense that is being asked, MyFitnessPal does not read active calories or any calories from your Apple Watch, it only reads Step counts and workouts, it calculates whatever it wants from that step count, if you want active calories to be synced you need to manually record a workout or it won't be synced, the calories count is all guessed by MFP and nothing to do with what your Apple Watch says

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