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Hairyback
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Evening all,
No one replied to my question about the Apple Watch. The reason I asked was that it SEEMS to track daily calorie usage - presumably by use of it's HRM and the personal details I have programmed into it.
The watch and associated phone app gives you a target to reach daily - you can set it yourself or go with what it tells you. It looks for elevated heart rates to track exercise or other apps link into it (Stronglifts being one) and it treats a workout as part of the exercise goal.
This is all very interesting (to me - as I have a watch) but it relates to weight/fat loss in quite a big way (if the watch is to be believed).
For some time now, I have been trying to lose some weight (6 lbs) and I have struggled and failed. The watch has helped me lose the weight by encouraging me to 'complete the rings' daily. The upshot of this is that I have lost the weight. Now - the most interesting thing - as has been mentioned numerous times - if food calorie intake it less than your body calorie usage - weight drops. Previously, I have used on line calculators which ask for a level of activity to work out what my daily intake of calories should be. I usually go for 'moderate' activity as this balances weekly with my work - some days very busy, some days not so. Using the watch to gauge my activity, I think that I may have been more sedentary than I thought. The upshot of this is that the calculators give me a higher calorie intake than it really should be. When I lost the weight I was very, very active in comparison with normal - using up to 2000 calories a day in exercise (plus your normal usage to stay alive).
My conclusion (subject to all the usual codicils and debate in this thread) is that people who are trying to use weight should be very clear when deciding how active they are to predict their food intake. You may think you are very active when, in fact, you may only be moderately active for the purposes of calculating your intake; you may think you are moderately active and you may be sedentary.
If anyone else has used a watch, I would be interested if this theory is replicated.