'Calorie tracker'

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luckystar8131
luckystar8131 Posts: 21
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Does anyone use something to track how many calories they burn during the day? I am guessing right now how many calories I am burning but I would like a more acurate number. Which ones do you use? Do you like it? Do you use it all the time? Thanks!

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  • Chairless
    Chairless Posts: 588 Member
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    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/fitbit

    Is this the sort of thing you are thinking of?
  • luckystar8131
    luckystar8131 Posts: 21
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    Um, i dunno. That looks just like a pedometer. i have heard about something called a body bug. This can't track your heartrate at all which is really how you would figure out how many calories you burn. Or am I wrong? I'm new to this working out thing so I dunno.
  • Chairless
    Chairless Posts: 588 Member
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    Well i use the fitbit to track my general activity levels throughout the day which might be overkill but im a geek and its a gadget <3

    It knows your height / weight and stride along with info about altitude so it knows if you are walking / running uphill etc, its quite accurate but you are right, its just doing a fancy calculation not actually reading my heart rate.

    For actual proper exercise such as a long hill walk / cycling or whatever i use a Polar FT4 HRM which is a chest strap job to measure heart rate etc and log the calories from that.

    I have heard of the body-bug, but couldn't comment as i have never seen one.

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