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Manual calorie adjustment issues

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Former Member over 5 years ago

When I do cardio I have to manually adjust the calories burned sometimes depending on what I did. When adjusted it does not change the daily calorie usage nor in/out. For instance, I burned 280 calories on my watch, but I burned 350 on my machine. When I make the changes it does not adjust anything else. I have noticed this over the past month and wanted to know if others have this issue?

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    I have exactly the same issue. My vivosmart HR isn't recording calories properly (55cals for a 5k row apparenlty????), so I adjusted the calories to what the machine said, but these adjusted calories are not included in my overall total burned for the day. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to ZCH17
    ZCH17 said:
    My vivosmart HR isn't recording calories properly (55cals for a 5k row apparenlty????)

    Garmin devices calculate the Calories by comparing your HR during the activity to your average resting HR. 

    If the resulting Calories do not meet you expectations, then you either did not wear the watch 24/7 and it could not properly acquire your average resting HR, or the HR monitoring during the activity did not work correctly (you may need to check the fit of the watch). 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

    I think it’s the latter as I’ve had this watch for years, but it’s only in the last few days it doesn’t seem to be recording calories properly, hence why I adjusted them manually. My issue is that GC isn’t taking the new adjusted calorie total into my daily number, only the ones registered through the activity at the time. Basically it’s ignoring the revised/adjusted calorie today’s and doing me out of 300+ calories burned!! 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to ZCH17
    ZCH17 said:
    My issue is that GC isn’t taking the new adjusted calorie total into my daily number, only the ones registered through the activity at the time.

    From posts of Garmin employees I understood that the modifying of certain values is restricted intentionally because of contractual reason. Garmin is bound by contracts with insurances agencies, who increasingly use fitness devices for evaluating benefits at health insurances. And they do not want that people could cheat too easily. Of course, it won't be bulletproof anyway, but it is understandable that they try to keep the basic data safe from modifications.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

    That makes sense. Thank you for the reply.