Fitbit

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I wear mine every day and I love it. If I were you, I'd wait until the bracelet one (flex) comes out. It automatically goes into sleep mode. The other ones don't. It has an alarm feature too that vibrates or something to wake you up.

I have the ultra, and I wear it on my bra. One day I was washing dishes and I guess the steam from the water (who knows how this happened, but it did) messed it up so I had to contact support and they sent me a new one for free. It could have been from sweat in that area, who knows. But I doubt it since it's designed to be worn on the bra for women. When I wear it however, I can see it through my clothes (theres a rectangle shape between my breasts that is obvious to anyone looking lol).

When the bracelet one comes out I'm going to switch. Its freakin waterproof, yay! I love my ultra though and earlier this month I got a nice email from them totalling up all of my activity for the last year. It was a really cool email because it compared my amount of floors to climbing some mountain or something. It doesn't calculate heart rate though which if there was a way it could it would be absolutely perfect. And probably more expensive

I have the zip and love it, but the integration with MFP doesn't seem to be working for me. It's great motivation...definitely get one!!

I agree that you need to log exercise separately if not running or walking. so I log my gym workouts (heart monitor) and swimming (swimtag). The general activity seems accurate for me i.e. if I set my deficit for 1.5 lb that works if I set it for 2lb that works. Bear in mind body media requires a subscription and fitbit does not although you can pay for extra features on the website but I have not found that necessary.

Support are very helpful.

I have doubled my step average in 3 months and I am going for more..........

I love my fitbit. I used to have a fitbit ultra, but I lost it, and now I have a fitbit one, and it's great.

When I started using it, I was doing an average of 5,000 steps per day, and I really struggled to reach my daily goal of 10,000. From the pretty graphs, I could see that I spent most of my time inactive, and have been gradually increasing my activity. Now, I average 15,000 steps per day (although it's summer at the moment, so that makes it easier!)

I've found it to be the most single piece of technology that has helped me stay focused. Walking is easy, and it lets me know how much more I need to walk. I'm down 20lbs, and I think that's mainly due to the fitbit and MFP

Not sure that I'd like the bracelet. I wear my fitbit on my pants - the only time I wear it on my bra is when I'm wearing a dress.

Oh, and my fitbit one has gone through the washing machine twice and survived - that's a quality product!

I love mine and it's great motivator... especially on days where I'm less active than I should be. There's a lot of people on MFP who also feel they get a lot out of the money spent. I think it's well worth it.

Not trying to be negative just stating the facts as a 2 year wearer of the Bodymedia Fit -- the FitBit is little more than a glorified pedometer. It consistently displayed 40% less calories burned than my BMF. If I manually logged my activities then I could get it w/in 15% (lower) than the BMF which would have been acceptable but I didn't want to log my activities on a daily basis - especially since setting MFP to Very Active and logging my exercise brings me almost to the same number as the FitBit.. I have no doubt that seeing your steps displayed can provide alot of motivation though.

Essentially I agree with this. I've been using a HRM to track any cardio workout I do as the Fitbit calorie burn is significantly lower than that recorded by my HRM. This is also the case for me when it comes to set periods of walking or running.

I tested the Fitbit adjustment for set periods of walking using the Fitbit stopwatch facility against my HRM for the same time period and found the calorie burn about half to a third lower than it should be. Which was when I downloaded Endomondo on my phone and started tracking the walking with that. Doing a test with the HRM, Endomondo calorie burn was about a third to 50% higher than what I actually burned. MFP's calorie burn for walking is the closest match to what I actually burn. So while I still use Endomondo track when, how fast and how long I walk for, I adjust the calories burn using MFP For running, I use my HRM for the calorie burn.

Where Fitbit comes into it's own is encouraging you to be more active, to get out and walk more and to try and increase your step count. For general walking around I've found the Fitbit is fab..

Oh yeh, I forgot to write in my previous post, I love the sleep tracker! It really made me realise how often I was going to bed early, and it helps me focus on getting enough sleep