Which FitBit?

I can only share my own take, but I have a Charge HR and I love it. The continuous HR monitor is important to me with hypertension, and it's useful because it's able to better analyze calorie burn rate by incorporating heart rate information with the step data. PurePulse, Fitbit's name for continuous monitoring, should give a more accurate calorie burn than basic activity trackers. This put it between the Surge and the Charge HR for me. The Surge is cool and all, but I'm not a runner, and even if I were, I'd have my phone to play music anyway, so the GPS gets me nothing. It was a $100 upcharge for a bulkier device that doesn't have any features that had me interested.

I have been looking at getting the charge hr and with all the positive posts I'm excited to get it

I'm seeing some comments about the Flex fitting poorly and not staying on, but I personally don't see it. I wore a Flex nearly every day for the last two years and it rarely fell off (and usually only if I caught that band edge on the corner of the desk or something).

When it did die recently, I considered the Charge, but for me personally all the extra tracking wasn't something I was interested in. The Flex did enough for me, so I bought another one. Got the Target-exclusive Violet color, which I couldn't resist. Even the lights glow violet .

Love my Charge HR. Used to have the Force but traded up with the voluntary recall.

jenniejoy07 wrote: »

I don't like the wrist ones as I feel they are inaccurate. I prefer the ONE; which I wear on my hip so I track only walking and not my hand movement.

I have the Charge (wrist one) and it seems to be very accurate. I haven't had any issues with accuracy at all. I did change my setting to dominant hand (even though it's on my non-dominant hand) to reduce extra step counts from hand movement.

The Ultra and Flex were both great, but I think the Charge HR is the best of all, a wonderful combination of features, comfort, and price. Best wishes!

I have the One and LOVE it.... I clip it on my bra and no one even knows that I have it on. It has been very accurate for me syncing with MFP, I eat back most of my calories from the Fitbit adjustment and I still lose at a steady rate.

I like my flex most of the time, but I find that it does fall off more often than I'd like, especially if I'm doing a lot of lifting and it catches on something. I've lost it before, and was lucky enough that it was returned to the lost and found where I could reclaim it (several weeks later.) The band also broke after just a few months. Thankfully, it usually comes with an extra so I just use that now.

I had the One before. I quite liked it, it sometimes encouraged me to do more than I had planned to. I washed it by accident once (forgot it was on my bra when I put it in the wash) and it survived. It didn't survive the second time I washed it (it popped off my bra with the armful load of laundry I was putting in the wash. I didn't buy another one, and at some point I fell off track and gained weight back and stopped exercising (did not coincide with losing the fitbit). I've been back exercising and losing weight since January. Most of my exercise has been running on the treadmill or outside (using mapmyrun to track), and strength training, but I'm hoping to add in more things like outdoor sports (soccer, ultimate frisbee) and hiking where I would like to have something that would track that a bit better, mostly out of curiosity. So I ordered another Fitbit.
I again ordered the One. I never wear bracelets of any kind so I didn't think that I would like a bracelet one. And I quite liked the One, just going to try to be more careful when doing laundry with it!
I wish I had known that a store near me sold fitbits for the same price as amazon as I would have bought it for this weekend (did a 16km run, an afternoon full of fast paced ultimate frisbee and soccer, and a 3 hour hike), but now I will likely get it this coming thursday (in time for my camping trip which is nice, especially since my phone probably won't hold it's charge for the whole weekend so I won't be able to use mapmyrun).

I have had a fit bit for 2-1/2 years. It is the single best motivator to get me to move more. I have had a One, a Force, and now a Charge HR (have had the Charge HR for 7 weeks now) They all had the same features, except the HR has the heart rate monitor, which I really like. Personal preference on which to choose. It challenges me to push myself to move more. I love it, and will have a fitbit from now on.

The Force is no longer available. Some people were having reactions (breaking out on their wrists) from the metal on the Force. I was one of the people who broke out from it. I kept it in my pocket until it was replaced by Fitbit. Their customer service is outstanding!

One thing to keep in mind, they do not pick up all of the steps when using a machine (like an elliptical), but for actual step counts, they are great (walking, running). It has more than paid for itself as a motivational device for me, and for me, that is a huge plus.

I have the Charge hr and I really love it. I had a glitch in mine and after they tried the reset (didnt fix it) Fitbit sent me a brand new one. I paid nothing. They are a very customer oriented company and I appreciate that so much. Anyway...I have had no problems with it since the replacement. I love it.