Fitbit Charge HR

SimonCypher

I defintely recommend a FitBit, I personally have the Charge as at the time of purchase the HR wasn't out. I'm thinking about upgrading to the Surge as I'm looking to get into running and the GPS functionality interests me.

Since I got my FitBit Charge I've tried to consciously ensure I hit 10k steps per day, even when I'm on my day off I make sure I'm out and about walking places to hit my goal. I've now hit 10k per day since 20th April and as much as I try and keep my streak up logging into MFP, I want to try and keep my step streak going too!

It's definitely made me more active and another aspect I like is where you can challenge your friends!

If anyone would like to become friends on FitBit, my profile can be viewed here; https:////www.fitbit.com/user/2XDGBQ

editorgrrl

WaterBunnie wrote: »

A friend of mine has one and it gives extraordinarily high calorie burns for less mileage than I do with my FitBit One some days so I would be very cautious eating back what it gives you.

If your friend is male &/or bigger than you, they will get a higher burn than you. Your Fitbit burn is TDEE (total daily energy expenditure), aka your maintenance calories.

I upgraded from the Fitbit Flex to the Charge HR a couple of months ago, and I'm still losing. The only way to prove the accuracy is to trust your Fitbit for several weeks, then reevaluate your progress.

WaterBunnie

editorgrrl wrote: »

WaterBunnie wrote: »

A friend of mine has one and it gives extraordinarily high calorie burns for less mileage than I do with my FitBit One some days so I would be very cautious eating back what it gives you.

If your friend is male &/or bigger than you, they will get a higher burn than you. Your Fitbit burn is TDEE (total daily energy expenditure), aka your maintenance calories.

I upgraded from the Fitbit Flex to the Charge HR a couple of months ago, and I'm still losing. The only way to prove the accuracy is to trust your Fitbit for several weeks, then reevaluate your progress.

Male, about 20 pounds lighter than me but the burn difference can be as much as 800 calories more for less steps.

patmid

Hi cockneylady2014 I have ordered one online, which hopefully will have arrived when I return home as I am away at present. Hoping it isn't too complicated to use/set-up, I have no idea what some the the comments mean. I guess you have to be using it to understand, or I really hope that's the case.

Really looking forward to it, the comments have been very encouraging and I love the idea of it inspiring you to do more exercise/steps and I find monitoring sleep patterns fascinating. I too am a numbers person the same as kdkyzer & bcruz313.

jrline

My wife loves hers I have the Surge and love it

CockneyLady2014

patmid thanks for letting me know you have bought one. It will be interesting to see how you get on with it. Have a good holiday.

Carpercia

patmid wrote: »

i have been looking at the Fitbit Charge HR and was wondering if anyone has some advice whether a good purchase or not? Any help would be much appreciated.

I'm a little late to the conversation.
For what its worth - I have been using a charge HR for about 8 weeks now and I have lost 24lbs+

The device itself is about as accurate as you could expect such a device to be.
For me, it was alot of motivation to hit (and exceed) my daily targets.

If anything happened to this, I would replace it with a new one.
I would recommend

patmid

Many thanks for your input Carpercia, all the responses have convinced me that I made the right decision to buy one.

patmid

Can't wait to get it cockneylady. Cheers.

CockneyLady2014

Thank you I'll get searching for one. You have all been so helpful even though I didn't post the question in the first place.