Apple Health vs Cromometer, slight difference in total calories burned

edited February 9 in General Discussion

I am using Cronometer for some time, previously used another app. Cronometer is soo-much better!

I am training heavy and eat protein rich diet (approx. 3650-3700 calories/day). So my TEF is on a higher side and I am glad to see that Cronometer can reflect that instead using flat 10% formula to calculate TEF!!

I have some small doubt about total calories calculation in Cronometer VS Apple Health.

Here is one example:

Chronometer:

Total Calories Burned 3624cal

  • BMR 1615 (this comes from the formula, OK for my specifics)
  • Excercise 1108 (these are my daily tracked workouts from Apple Watch)
  • Tracker Activity 424 (this comes from Apple Watch)
  • TEF 477 (this comes from the formula and is based on my nutritional macro split)

Cronometer is synchronized with Apple Health and it all works perfectly on that side.
I ate 3872 calories and that was transfered to Apple Health properly.

As Apple Health doesn't have access to macros I expect total calories to be lower on Apple but maximum should be the TEF difference

So, that difference would be:

Apple TEF 10% calories consumed = 387 cals
Cronometer using proper TEF formula = 477 cals.

That means 90 cals less in Apple Health.

However, here is Apple data for the same day:

Apple Health/Apple Fitness

Total calories burned 3452

  • Active Energy 1532 calories (this is in Cronometer Excercise + Tracker Activity)
  • Resting Energy 1924 calories (this is obviously BMR + TEF)

There is difference of 172 calories. If 90cal difference comes from TEF it seems that Apple also estimate BMR lower for some 82cal?

It's not a big difference but curious to understand where is it coming from?


Comments

  • I have a very similar issue. Cronometer seems to take all of the active calories from Apple Health and apply that to my daily calculation. As a result, I see a significant caloric deficit on most days. I am drinking enough water during the day but I am not overdoing it by any stretch. And, no... LOL! it's not because I am a bad calorie estimator - in fact I use as scale whenever I can. Still, I have trouble rationalizing what the scale says and what Cronometer is showing on many of the days I work out (which is almost every day doing at least something). I think it is a great program and by far my favorite of any that I have used. I would just like to be able to understand how to better rationalize the numbers.

Welcome!

It looks like you're new here. Sign in or register to get started.

Welcome!

It looks like you're new here. Sign in or register to get started.