Anyone else having issues with wildly inaccurate calorie estimates recently?
On Wednesday I walked 8 miles and my watch says I burned 188 calories. Someone of my height, weight, gender, and age should burn about 400 over that distance. Today I walked 4 miles, climbed 26 flights of stairs, and stood all day for a total of 31 active calories. Compared with past recordings of similar activities, these are completely different. My tracked workouts are wrong, too. Far too low. I biked an hour indoors at 17 mph, totaling 17 miles. The watch reported 289 calories, which includes my RMR for that hour. This does not match previous data, and is far less than any online calculator estimates for that workout.
I contacted support and they had me do a hard reset, since they were baffled about what the problem could be. After an hour of setting the watch back up, I’m having the same issues. Four calories burned on a brisk half mile walk. Really? And then those “four calories” vanished from the app, and the estimate went back to what it was before the walk (31), after about 30 seconds.
And yes, my height and weight are accurate. I haven’t changed my heart rate zones or activity class. My heart rate data is more or less the same as it has been. Neither the support tech nor I can come up with any explanation.
Anyone else?
