Would a better fitness tracker help?

fivefootfitness
fivefootfitness Posts: 60
in Fitness and Exercise
I've posted a few times before about never knowing if i'm eating the right number of calories and struggling to lose the rest of my weight. I currently have a Polar FT40 that I've used for running for about a year and am thinking of handing it off to my mother and buying a new one.

After years of disordered eating (no longer), and being abnormally petite (5', yet having a higher then usual body fat percentage) I never know what BMR calculator to trust. I've tried out different intake numbers for a few months at a time and am just never sure where I should be.

Since I'm already thinking of getting a fitbit (or something like that) to also track sleep and non-exercise activity through the day, would one of the higher tech fitness trackers (body temp, sleep, etc) give me a better image of what I should be aiming for? I'm also thinking of getting a proper body composition test done at the gym when uni restarts in the fall, but I don't really see the point since i have a rough idea based on my measurement calculations.

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  • SKME2013
    SKME2013 Posts: 704 Member
    I don't know what your budget is, but I would wait a bit as at the moment there are numerous new trackers coming out. Check this for a bit more infotmation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/activitytrackers/?fref=nf

    Some of the trackers can be combined with a heart rate monitor, something I find essential.

    Personally, I have the fitbit One for step based activities and the Polar RCX5 multisportswatch with heart rate monitor. The RCX5 is expensive, but for me worth every penny. It can calculate your VO2max and create your very own fitness profile which is important for accurate calorie counting.

    A lot of people are waiting for the new iwatch, perhaps not so much to buy it, but it will set very likely new benchmarks for what to expect from fitness trackers. At the moment I believe there is no fitness tracker out there that fulfills all of what I expect. Some have lousy apps, others do not track properly.

    You do have to do your research as there are quite a few out there that sound great but do a lousy job.

    Best of luck
    Stef.
  • fivefootfitness
    fivefootfitness Posts: 60
    Fantastic, thanks for the feedback! I'm definitely going to wait as long as I can, and I'm pretty content with what I have for now, I would just love to eventually upgrade. I would probably put in anywhere from 100-200 dollars, if a product really has good reviews and seems to be what I want. Running shoes and my Polar monitor are the only things I've splurged so largely on (but for a higher quality), and I've never regretted either.

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