I weigh 172 pounds, so I may have gained some weight. I will exercise before it gets too hot outside.

I am finding that using a watch to estimate calorie burn is fraught with obstacles. There is some important information to understand that only comes through significant research on the Internet. Most all calculators provide crude estimates that may be way off. Most who purchase these watches either do not understand this, or do not want to go through the effort in determining what is and what is not relevant in order to verify what their watch is telling them. There is allot of misunderstanding, incomplete information, and even BS on the Internet. This is even true with some sites that set themselves up as an authority on the subject.

Here is a biggie that helps make this much more complicated than it needs to be. There are the manufacturers of the watch that do not tell you enough in order to set the watch up correctly. They also do not help you interpret the results properly. If it were not for this, a user would be able to have much more confidence in the watch itself making most of this research not necessary.

No wonder users of these types of watches find calories burned on their watches to be very inaccurate and then ignore this figure as a consequence. I guess they can always use allot of trial and error. I believe when a good watch is set up appropriately, I think the results can be surprisingly accurate, like maybe as good as 80 percent or better accuracy depending on the sport, the use of sensors, and the watch. This is not bad at all being out of the laboratory.