Gmail setup as active sync issue?

[quiqnezz]

Ok, so I breifly set up my gmail account via active sync JUST for the emails since everyone kept sayin the mail app was better then the gmail app.

I kept the contacts/calendar with google sync. At first it seemed pretty cool but then realized that for some reason it seems to be doing ALOT of sync'ing everytime I open up an email from the email widget, or even on it's own. At first I thought well maybe it's just doing alot of downloading since I had it set to download ALL my emails from gmail. But even after it seemed it was done, it was still syn'ing alot on it's own for no reason.

Is anyone else experiencing that? I had to delete it and go back to the regular gmail app and it stopped doing it.