Calorie count absurdly high

Doedays 7 days ago

Since last Sunday my calorie count has been absurdly high. As in, literally waking up to already having burnt 3000 call! And finishing a fairly regular and chill Sunday with an easy strength workout at 9.393 If that were true I would be eating non-stop and not gain a gram.

My average rest cal was 1668 and suddenly jumped to 8.442 on Sunday. On Monday as well with just 30 min on a cross trainer, it says that I burned more than 1.000 calories. Even while wearing a chest heart rate monitor.

I have checked all of my personal data: weight, height, age resting and max heart rate. Nothing changed. My heart rate data is also not showing anything abnormal. Checked for updates, restarted the watch, but I can't figure it out.

Anyone have an idea?

0 trux 7 days ago

You wrote you checked the body weight, but I would recommend double-checking it again. Do it directly on the watch as well as in Garmin Connect. Make sure you use the right units, too.

0 Doedays 7 days ago in reply to trux

Unfortunately, still the same. Both on web, the app or my watch. Even updated my weight, and all units. Checked min-max heartrate. But even as I've just put on my watch an hour ago, while sitting at my desk, I've apparently already burned 158 active calories..
Really at a loss here

0 trux 7 days ago in reply to Doedays

I suggest resetting the watch to factory defaults (with the option of deleting all data). Set it then up anew without restoring any backups.

0 Doedays 7 days ago in reply to trux

Thanks for thinking along! Would that mean losing all data on the watch, or actually all my account data, including al past workouts etc.? That would be so sad

0 trux 6 days ago in reply to Doedays

All what was already synced, remains in your Garmin Connect account untouched.