Total calories on Apple Watch activity?

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Total calories on Apple Watch activity?

I’m currently on a diet and I only really use my watch when I work out. I try to burn the exact calories I eat every single day. So I work out 10pm at night, I noticed whenever I put my watch on it would say something like “total calories 2,040” and I would work out and burn about 1088 out of 750 goal for my actually ‘move’ calories. My question is the 2,040 ‘total burned calories’ is that really the total amount of calories I burn at that specific time as I work out? Or does it somehow muster up my all day activity even though I don’t wear or touch the watch at all until I workout? On the graph it shows no movement until I officially put on my watch at 10pm I just want to make sure I have accurate information.

Apple Watch Series 1, watchOS 6

Posted on Nov 9, 2020 10:30 PM

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Nov 10, 2020 2:12 AM in response to Kendraadi

Resting Calories

Your resting calories per day is the amount of energy (in the form of calories) that your body needs to function while resting. This is also known as BMR, or Basal Metabolic Rate. This number of calories reflects how much energy your body requires to support vital body functions. In fact, your BMR is the single largest component (upwards of 60 percent) of your total energy burned each day.

Basically, your body burns calories just by doing nothing, and this is the number those calories are.

Active Calories

These are the calories you burn by being active, such as walking, hiking, playing sports, etc. These calories are vital to losing weight, as the only way to burn more calories than you eat while maintaining a healthy diet is to burn active calories.

Total Calories

This is the sum of the Resting Calories and Active Calories you burn in a 24 hours. This is the number of calories you should be focusing on each day when factoring in how many you burned. Combining both Active Calories and Resting Calories gives you the most complete picture of your day.

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