My FITBIT Ultra is Here!! Yippee

Check out the Fitbit group -- lots of information there. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/1290-fitbit-users

Is there someone here that has a public diary and is using the FitBit? I'm curious to see how it's logged.

Best of luck to you!!! I LOVE mine! It's my new best friend... I would just say don't always trust the calorie sync. I think mine is far too generous with awarding calories burned: I can't prove it, but I hardly ever eat as much as it says I can and I've been doing great at losing weight! But it's best feature is looking at it throughout the day and knowing whether or not I'm moving enough. I always thought I was more active than I was until I got my Fitbit: it shows me just exactly how active I'm NOT being sometimes. And better than a Personal Trainer because it's with me 24/7. Hope you love it as much as I do!

Oh and P.S. If you want more Fitbit friends, feel free to add me: http://www.fitbit.com/user/23B36Y I need some Fitbit friends!

this is what I need...something to blatantly tell me how lazy I am being lol

You don't have to have the basestation plugged in all the time, however it does need to be plugged in to sync. That's really the only downside I have with it because I'm gone at work all day (and sometimes all night too), and I don't really see my data until I get home and sync. I know some people have taken their basestations to work, I just can't because we're not allowed to use USB devices on work computers and there's no wireless for me to be able to use my laptop.

I hope you like it! I've had mine for almost 2.5 years. My dad heard about it when the company was just starting and pre-ordered it so he was one of the first to use it. I ordered mine a month or two later after I saw how much it helped him. So far I've gone through 2 - one not because it broke but because they came out with the ultra and I wanted it. The other wasn't working right, I troubleshooted with them, and they sent me a replacement when we couldn't fix it. Great company!!

For anyone who's interested, they do have a cheaper version now too. It doesn't count stairs like the ultra and the new fitbit one do, but it syncs with the newer apple products (iphone, ipad). I may consider buying a fitbit one when I upgrade my phone - just to be able to sync at work.

Oh, and one more thing. The basestation doesn't have to be plugged into the computer you used to set it up. Any basestation and any computer will work - for example, my fitbit will sync to my account when I'm around my dad's laptop with his basestation.