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Apple Watch calories

meachemcrystal795
meachemcrystal795 Posts: 47 Member
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I’m not sure in what group to post this.
My Apple watch says I’ve burned over 500 calories today.
This app says I’ve burned 22.
This is confusing to me lol
Anyone else have this issue? What did you do for calorie adjustments?

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  • cowsfan12
    cowsfan12 Posts: 6,295 Member
    meachemcrystal795 wrote: »
    I’m not sure in what group to post this.
    My Apple watch says I’ve burned over 500 calories today.
    This app says I’ve burned 22.
    This is confusing to me lol
    Anyone else have this issue? What did you do for calorie adjustments?

    The watch will be closer to accurate - however it’s still pretty far off Imo - my advice is to just not eat back any calories you burn
  • briscogun
    briscogun Posts: 1,148 Member
    Keep in mind, MFP and its daily calorie goal assumes you are moving and burning calories already, so if you are counting your watch movement calories you are double-crediting yourself for your daily movements.

    I only use my watch to record INTENTIONAL exercise: running, weightlifting, etc.
  • kinetixtrainer2
    kinetixtrainer2 Posts: 9,321 Member
    cowsfan12 wrote: »
    meachemcrystal795 wrote: »
    I’m not sure in what group to post this.
    My Apple watch says I’ve burned over 500 calories today.
    This app says I’ve burned 22.
    This is confusing to me lol
    Anyone else have this issue? What did you do for calorie adjustments?

    The watch will be closer to accurate - however it’s still pretty far off Imo - my advice is to just not eat back any calories you burn

    This !
  • samgettingfit25
    samgettingfit25 Posts: 13 Member
    edited February 28
    Your connection works? Even my logged workouts only randomly come over from Apple Health lately. In theory, the 22 calorie adjustment means your watch estimates you burned 22 more calories than MFP estimated you would burn based on your base activity level + logged exercise.

    I wouldn't worry about 22 calories. When it works, I use the integration just to double check whether I seem to have chosen the right activity level. If you enabled negative adjustments, then a negative just means your watch estimates you burned fewer calories than your MFP activity level. (I use my watch to prompt me to be more active and track that goal, I was using it before I started logging food using MFP.)
  • meachemcrystal795
    meachemcrystal795 Posts: 47 Member
    samgettingfit25 wrote: »
    Your connection works? Even my logged workouts only randomly come over from Apple Health lately. In theory, the 22 calorie adjustment means your watch estimates you burned 22 more calories than MFP estimated you would burn based on your base activity level + logged exercise.

    I wouldn't worry about 22 calories. When it works, I use the integration just to double check whether I seem to have chosen the right activity level. If you enabled negative adjustments, then a negative just means your watch estimates you burned fewer calories than your MFP activity level. (I use my watch to prompt me to be more active and track that goal, I was using it before I started logging food using MFP.)
    Yes, my logged workouts from my watch are coming through.
    I was just confused, my watch was saying I had burned 500+ movement calories.
    MFP only 22 for my strength training.
    I didn’t realize before posting this that MFP already takes into consideration your activity level.
    I won’t be adding any calories now that I understand. Thanks for the help everyone!

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