I have just put my watch on and noticed my total calories burnt is already over 1000, I have only done a few steps. I am trying to lose weight so need to know how many calories I am burning a day. The total by the end of the day after a workout is usually around 2300. So a little confused why it’s at 1432 already?!
Apple Watch Series 5, watchOS 9
I have looked into this and I am wrong.
Cal and kCal both give exactly the same number so we still need to workout why you start the day on 1400 total calories.
Do you wear the Watch while sleeping?
If so is it on Sleep Monitoring?
If you have the Watch on the night stand in night stand mode on charge all night then I am at a loss, in which case reach out to Apple Support directly. You should be able to reach them here
Click here > Contact - Official Apple Support
or phone numbers
Click here > Contact Apple for support and service - Apple Support or
Click here > Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple
By the way where Total kcalories are shown it is an estimate of workout kcalories plus metabolic kcalories that we all burn just by breathing.
Sad to say you will burn maybe 1000 kilocalories by lying in bed all day.
Thankyou, I’ve switched the units over.
but still confused as to why there is burnt calories in the total calories burnt section when my watch had been on charge all night and I had only just put it on? Surely it should be 0 until I have at least got out of bed…
For comparison this is my chart
Male, 72, 160lb, 4k jog included
It looks like you have set your units of metrics to CAL instead of KCAL
Remember a human needs to burn about 1500 to 2500 Kilocalories
One old fashined Food Calorie = 1000 actual scientific calories
Go to iPhone, Watch app, My Watch tab, Workout, Units of measure and change to Kilocalories
Thankyou for that,
I have had an Apple Watch for years and had years worth of data in the health app connected to the fitness app.
I deleted all the resting calories data which deleted it all in the fitness app. It reset todays to 0 for me to start a fresh. The only downside is that I have lost all the total calories for the past but at least I know it’s accurate (ish) going forward…
It is only 1.4 kcal!
Confused by total calories
