#Apple watch calorie tracker how to#

This is to avoid double-counting exercise calories. Because of this, when you sync a workout from Health to Lose It!, the calorie bonus from the workout will be excluded from the total because Lose It! will assume all other HealthKit workout calories are already accounted for in the Active Calorie total. If you want your workouts to count directly towards your budget, you will need to enable the Steps from iPhone feature.Īctive calories include total calories burned from exercise. This is the recommended setting for Apple Watch users, as taking your total calorie burn throughout the day is the most accurate way to determine any kind of calorie bonus. With your Apple Watch connected, Lose It! will sync active calories from the Apple Watch. You can see your “Calories To Go” right in your Lose It! app (at the bottom of your Log), which represents how many more calories you need to burn to reach your goal. More information on how we interpret your dataĪ calorie bonus is calorie burn credited to your Log when you exceed what Lose It! estimates you burn in a day.

If you see a caution icon next to the steps bonus on your Log screen, it means that your HealthKit permissions are not set properly. If you want to see Lose It! as an app on the Apple Watch itself, go into your watch apps and add Lose It! to your apps list. Make sure Lose It! is enabled to read all data.On the same screen, you can also choose if you'd like to share food, weight, custom goal data, and write workouts from Lose It! to HealthKit.

You may be prompted which data you want to share with HealthKit, you can use the 'All Categories' button or select which data you want to sync.

Under Automatic tracking, select ‘Apple Watch’.

Note: Lose It! accesses Apple Watch steps, calorie burn and workouts through the Health app on your iOS device.

#Apple watch calorie tracker how to#

How to Connect the Apple Watch to Lose It! Note: It is not possible to have both a steps bonus from Health and a calorie bonus from the Apple Watch at the same time. This article will explain how to connect to the Apple Watch.