FIT BIT ULTRA

My husband and I each have one and we love it! Also, best customer service ever. He lost his and contacted them to see if they had a discounted one since he didn't need replacements for the other stuff that comes with it (charged, etc) and they sent him a replacement one for free!

Love mine! Had it since June. I've found it gives me the extra kick to get moving.

I love mine too! The syncing with MFP is great and I love earning the activity badges. Right now I debating on whether or not to climb 4 more flights of stairs to give me 25 for the day. Well, there's no debate...just a matter of when I'm going to do it. I get up and walk around or climb stairs at work throughout the day. I went for a walk this evening to get some extra steps in and now I'm 1500 steps shy of 20,000 for the day! Ouside of exercise, I NEVER would have gotten this much daily activity without it. Best $99 I could have spent.

I have mine for 6 months now and I love it also. Great motivator.
It was replaced once also for free.

I have been trying back and forth linking my fitbit with mfp and at the end, I am not linking them.
I prefer to enter my specifc workouts in mfp, as I had the feeling the fitbit calorie adjustement was too big.

It is a personal choice and you might want to test also unlinking/ relinking like what I did.

how does it work when you also use a HRM during exercise? do you just take it off during those periods so that it doesn't track or do you have to go online and modify it there?

also, i'd heard that riding in the car (or subway, etc) can sometimes make it very inaccurate as far as stairs or steps, especially if it's hilly. how much of a pain/issue is this and do you have to go into the website every day and fix it? or what if you forget to fix it?

thanks!

I have used mine for a couple of months and have found it easy to use. If you do a lot of driving it is a pain logging the driving on the fitbit site. This removes false steps and stairs climbed. (There is a phone app which makes this easier as you can do it there and then)
One downside that I have yet to sort out is if I drive a long way and it awards false badges for stairs or steps, when I correct by logging driving it will not take the badge away

Here is how I use it. I log driving on the fitbit site, sorting false info. If I use my HRM I log this with a start time on MFP, this will override whatever the fitbit says and not double count.S you can use a HRM and still have the fitbit on you. The link between the 2 sites is great it seems to work seamlessly for food and exercise.

It does mean that if I have an active day then the fitbit will give me credit for it and give me an adjustment, giving a few more cal in mfp to eat! Yeah!!

These adjustments have caught me out occasionally in that if you are very active in the morning and then very still in the afternoon, it can give you a big adjustment to start with then slowly reduce it as the day goes on. If it does not sync very often you can end up with a bit of a shock with disappearing calories.

On the whole I think it is brilliant and would recommend. Yes the price tag is high, but I still love mine. It is silly, but you do do more when you have the fitbit in your pocket.

I'm lovin the integration MFP/fitbit. It probably is not 100% accurate, but 1000% more accurate then me trying to guess my calorie burn 24x7. Highly recommend others keep fitbit on 24x7 and be more informed using YOUR DATA for achieving your goals.

I love mine - had it about a month now and I find so often that where I would jump in the car - I walk now and find myself just generally being far more active as I just have to make sure I get my 100% on all the different targets.

It definitely helps motivate me. I will do extra walking or stairs just to get the numbers up. Customer service replaced the one that my husband lost for free without any hassle.

I have just recently figured out that if you set the stopwatch when you start your exercise (such as walking or running), it will give you a breakdown of how many calories that you burned, miles traveled, etc. during that workout. So much easier than trying to read the count for every 5 minutes and add them up!

Have had mine for nearly 30 days. LOVE IT!!!!!

Nearly always make all my goals every day but sometimes I am running around the house and up and down the stairs before going to bed just so I do.

Did not know about the timer for calculating calories burnt. Thanks!

It's f'in awesome, I am a lazy logger and e always given up tracking food and exercise, between MFP and my Fitbit I am easily able to keep track of calories in vs calories used.
It has issues with ellipticals and spin bikes, to counter this wear the Fitbit on your sock when doing these exercises, I logged my fitbit along with my HRM and bike computer readings and they were almost identical.

Can I ask what the difference is between this and a regular pedometer??

Also which would you prefer between an HRM, Body Bugg AND the fitbit ultra??

Thanks

Go to fitbit.com and all your questions will be answered.

I got mine less than a month ago, and have dropped 8# since getting it (after plateauing or losing very slowly for months). It really encourages me to be more active, but it also makes a huge difference to me to really know what I'm burning (ergo how much I should be eating), instead of just guessing based on formulas.

I never thought I could ever become attached to a device, but my Fitbit is attached at the hip all the time. I shoot for 10K steps or higher each day and its daily calorie burn is on par with my MFP goals, so I can gauge whether I need to step up my activity during the day, simply by checking out the calorie burn level. I once lost mine and went a whole 16 hours before getting a new one at Best Buy because it just wasn't the same without it.