Additional ?? regarding Bodymedia Fit

MIM49

Based on the following do you think a Bodymedia Fit would work better for me?

Please read my log on Fitnees and Exercise" Answers, please, HRM users" I posted today on MFP
And here is an email I sent to Fitbit Customer Support: I have been using the Fitbit One for 1 week now and before I publish a public review (on My Fitness Pal, Amazon, Facebook and any other site for fitness/diet devices) I thought to give the courtesy of contacting Fitbit first. I am female, 63 years old, retired ($$ count--I cannot afford to buy a "toy"), obese and dieting. I want a device that accurately and dependably can provide a calculation for calories burned from daily activities to help me adjust my caloric intake when eating. I am questioning both the accuracy and dependability of the Fitbit One. First of all, during the week I have worn the Fitbit One--I have earned a badge and been credited for climbing 10 flights of stairs in a day. I live in a single story house--there are no stairs. Secondly--Fitbit credited me for "steps" for riding in a car as a passenger and therefore calories burned (perhaps I did a little bouncing--road is bumpy--but I certainly did not walk to town). Third--Fitbit credited me for steps and calories burned while the Fitbit One sat on my bedside table while I was asleep. I am sure that my bedside table does not move. I realize that the Fitbit One is only a device and therefore not infallible and also that any information it provides is also only an estimate. However I do not see a way to edit out the erroneous information. How do I edit out the stairs I did not climb or the steps and calorie burned credited for the car ride or the time in bed? Although having to edit information that I know to be wrong would lessen the convenience of using the Fitbit One, at least I would know the calculations would be more accurate if I could make the corrections. Also one of the reasons I purchased the Fitbit One was for its ability to sync with My Fitness Pal which I use to log information pertinent to my diet and exercise. However in many ways this has become a hassle because I am constantly getting a negative calorie allowance throughout the day--the "Fitbit adjustment" keeps subtracting calories from the calories I burned from exercise. This does not provide motivation or incentive. All in all, I do not see that the Fitbit One is providing me with any more dependable or accurate information that I was not already getting from logging food and exercise on a website like My Fitness Pal while basing my calorie needs using charts for BMR, RMR, or TDEE. But as I am a new user to Fitbit One, perhaps there is a solution to the above problems I am not aware of. Therefore, this is why I will wait for a response from you before publishing my review and probably returning the Fitbit One to the store from which it was purchased.

MIM49

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rachmass1

Fitbit and bodymedia fit are not the same device.

These devices estimate your BMR based on what you input as to age, weight, height, lifestyle etc and measure based on a 24-hour day so when you wake up in the morning there will be calories burned already unless you tell it you are dead.

There is a way to deal with the steps from driving but others will chime in on that (I haven't had that problem).

Have you used scooby or fat2fit to determine an estimate of your BMR?

yustick

I have a Fitbit Ultra which I no longer use. I had problems with a lot of activity being recorded when driving, which can be edited out by creating an activity for the drive time, but this was more trouble than it was worth. I wore a BodyBugg and Fitbit all summer. I spent a significant amount of time biking and kayaking, which the fitbit really doesn't recognize. However, the BodyBugg website was horrible. Over time both devices had very similar results. When my BodyBugg subscription expired, I upgraded to the BodyMedia, I like the website much better than BodyBugg. And it did everything the Fitbit did, except flights of stairs, so I stopped wearing the Fitbit. It is even better now that the BodyMedia syncs to MFP (although it may not work the way you want it to), I'm very happy. I didn't really care about the flights of stairs and much as calorie burn. When I first got the Fitbit, I thought I could run up and down the stairs at work, but it doesn't always work when you go up and down the same flight of stairs without stopping. The armband for bodymedia is larger and more obvious than the fitbit. That doesn't bother me. The sleep function on the bodymedia works on it's own...where the fitbit ultra had to be set, I would always forget.

katevarner

Love my BMF link. But had to wear it a couple of weeks for it to adjust to my body and it actually thought I was sleeping while I was driving one day. Think the calorie burn estimates it gives are very close as I lost the weight I wanted to lose and am now maintaining eating at almost exactly what it tells me I burn.

Feel free to message me if you have specific questions.

skylark94

I think you are asking an awful lot from a $100 device. For what it costs, it's a great tool.

The calories burned while the Fitbit is sitting are your BMR, as your body is also burning calories while it is stationary.

The stairs climbed come from changes in atmospheric pressure. I will sometimes get a few extra stairs on a windy day. Again, you are asking a whole lot from a really inexpensive device.

The car riding is an easy fix. Go into activities and log the time to overwrite the Fitbit data. The Fitbit doesn't know if your movement is a bumpy road or an actual step. It's just a pedometer.