Fitbit yes or no?

I got one a cpl weeks ago and I love it. It encorages me t move more. However, if its sync with mfp it adjusts your calories. What I haven't figured out is why it takes them away.

I guess I should add - I love my fitbit! Great motivator!

Nahh, didn't like it. Too much inaccuracy for me. But it is a good motivator for some.

I like the Jawbone UP more than my Fitbit One. I think the Jawbone is a little more accurate. I feel like I will eventually lose my Fitbit..

I love Fitbit One. I had a really hard time estimating my TDEE, because I'm on my feet almost all day at work and do a lot of moving around (so much I can start to breath heavy and break a sweat). But I never counted it as exercise and though I was only lightly active.

Turns out on busy work days I can take over 20000 steps and walk up 50 flights of stairs (I work on the 3rd floor and have to go to the other floors quite a bit). Even on not so busy "sedentary" days I'm still taking about 9000 steps. This is just at work.

On weekends I'm way more sedentary and struggle to get to my daily 10000 steps.

For this reason I have negative adjustments allowed. So I eat less if I move less.

It really gave me a good idea of my TDEE, which ranges from about 1600 on sedentary days (weekend day with no workout) to 2400 (busy work day with a workout after work). So I know how much to eat depending on how the day is going. I'm keeping up with a 500 per day deficit which I'm going to switch to a 250 deficit after I lose 2 more pounds.

I bought a Fitbit One at the beginning of February and I love it. I find it really encourages me to move and get my step and stair badges each day and I love the way it syncs with MFP. I have a much better idea of what I'm really burning each day and I love that I can wear it in the middle of my bra (don't even notice it's there) and not clipped to my pants like I did my old pedometer (which would come loose and move and not calculate properly). I also love the sleep feature and how I can track the effects of when I go to bed and what I eat.

^^^I got a Fitbit One in December. I really like it! It gives me a good gauge of how active I have been for a day, week, month, etc. It has also helped me keep track of my sleep, too, which has always been a problem for me. I'm not real competitive with myself and don't use it as motivation yet, but it has helped me on several occasions get off my butt and get moving.

I did get a leash for it, which has already paid for itself several times. It clips to the Fitbit and to my bra, so if the tiny gadget comes loose, I don't lose it. The Fitbit has come loose off my bra several times and would have gotten stepped on and/or lost if I didn't have the added safety feature.

Bought FitBit One few weeks ago and loooove it. It is such the motivator and helps he stay on track. Addicting

I loved mine, really encouraged me to move more. I don't use it anymore, however, because the two that I owned went through the wash. Gave up in disgust after that.

Love mine! It tells me what I have to eat.

I got one a cpl weeks ago and I love it. It encorages me t move more. However, if its sync with mfp it adjusts your calories.

I've had mine for about 3 weeks now and I absolutely love it! It definitley makes you move more because you want to see high numbers on your Fitbit board.

What I haven't figured out is why it takes them away.

It's not taking them away techncally. If you log in another exercise, the calories that you burn during the exercise are actually compensated or "taken away" from the Fitbit numbers and are added to the actual activity. I noticed that when I log my classes, and machine workouts at the gym. Take a look at it again.

I love my fitbit one ... I got mine at bestbuy so I didnt have to wait and wait and wait ( I am impatient when I order things from the mail) LOL .....its a great motivator. .....I would recommend it to anyone

yes worth the investment

Depends on what you are looking for in a device. I also don't see how something you put in your pocket and doesn't measure your heart rate can be a good gauge of calories burned.

It measures your actual movement, which is what actually consumes energy. I'd think the Fitbit would be more accurate.

A heart rate monitor only measures your heart rate. It cannot correct in any way for how efficient your system is. Two people of the same size/weight can have vastly different heart rates while doing the same activity but be burning approximately the same calories.

Knowing your heart rate is only useful if you can actually correlate it to your particular VO2 max at that heart rate. Heck, the same person could start running and within 2-3 weeks have a 20% lower heart rate when cruising at 6 mph.... but his calories used hasn't gone down 20% unless his actual running technique has improved.

Neither one is going to be very accurate, but I don't think HRMs are necessarily any more accurate than an activity tracker.

It does not measure heartrate.. not sure where you got that from?

Yes! I've had my Ultra since June. As accurate as a good pedometer. Very accurate on climbs. If you get the One you can measure floors climbed and it gives you a sense of your sleep characteristics (Zip does not do that). Haven't really heard anything about the flex. It generally plays well with MFP though I prefer MFP's food diary.

Match the names of the meals in both softwares and the summary from the meals you put here on MFP will find their way to Fitbits software.

There are a couple of cautions about things being double counted but a lot of that has been solved.

You can see an example of a Fitbit profile at my Fitbit profile at

http://www.fitbit.com/user/23BVQ9