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Measure your Moderation

Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Dec 24, 2023 | Replies (15)

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To arichards3: If I understand you correctly you add your resting and active energy counts to keep track of how much energy you used and don't let yourself go beyond a certain count in order to avoid PEM. Would that be the same as the total calorie count on my android? Thank you.

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I don't know Android so maybe. With Apple Watch and the Fitness rings one can be confused. The 'Move' ring tracks calories and movement (not exercise), then you have an 'Exercise' ring and then a 'Stand' ring. I had to dig a bit in the Health app to find the 'Active' (which is moving around, walking, and EXERCISE) and 'Resting' measures as 2 of over a dozen Health Data. Good news is there are layman's definitions of the different data.

But short story when I add 'Active' and 'Resting' together that is my total calorie expenditure for the day. 'Resting' doesn't change much which is to be expected I guess. Looking back on the data and reflecting on it is the value. For example last Friday was a dinner with friends and a late night (for me) going to bed after 11. Usually going to bed before 10. I expected my Active to be really high compared to other days and it wasn't. Not a surprise but it's the real calories burning activity that makes the difference - heavy and long chore activity around the house, exercise in the gym, etc. Longer paragraph, I guess that wasn't a short story . . . 🙂

I am mildly crashed today so I've stepped over that imaginary moderation level. Looking at the data I have a 22 day average of 533 active calories. That's the value and my plan is to push on until high active calories do not crash me.