what is the most accurate fitness tracker?

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  • kinkyslinky16
    kinkyslinky16 Posts: 1,469 Member
    Oh, he has to log everything accurately??? Crap... let me tell him that and see if he has better results. Thanks!
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    Plenty of people lie to themselves about their intake—much less to their family & friends. When I started MFP my diary as private, but it still took me a long while to get 100 honest with my logging.

    The bottom line is all the calorie counts & burns are nothing but estimates. It takes trial & error to find the "sweet spot" where one is eating at an appropriate deficit.

    My Fitbit activity tracker shows me my TDEE (aka maintenance calories), and it motivates me to move more. Fitbit customer service is excellent. I lost the weight & have successfully maintained, and when anyone asks my weight-loss "secret," I say Fitbit + MFP.
  • ACyclingAdmin
    ACyclingAdmin Posts: 444 Member
    There is a bit of an adjustment in logging everything as well. Sometimes you don't even notice it or forget you grabbed that cracker or cookie. I've been on MFP 40 days now and have missed a few things, it's a pretty steep learning curve in a different way than most are used to. I've learned a lot about weighing my food and portions.
  • sabrinafaith
    sabrinafaith Posts: 607 Member
    kinkyslinky16 wrote: »
    editorgrrl wrote: »
    kinkyslinky16 wrote: »
    I have a bodymedia, fitbit flex and my husband has the surge. The surge seems somewhat inaccurate to me. My husband and I will do the same thing all day (walk at the zoo) and somehow he will have more than double the steps, even though he's 6'4" and has a larger stride. His calorie count seems way too high to me as well. It will also show that he's climbed a few flights of stairs when he's climbed none. He likes it though.

    TDEE is based on sex, age, height, and weight—so your husband's burn will always be way more than yours.

    Fitbit's stair count does not affect your burn in any way—it's just meant to be a fun metric. It's based on changes in air pressure, so you can get lots of "flights" just walking outside on a windy day.

    The only way to gauge the accuracy is to trust your Fitbit for several weeks, then reevaluate your progress. As I said above, my Fitbit burn is 100% accurate. YMMV.

    Gizziemoto wrote: »
    Was waiting for UP but they made me so mad when I needed support on my armband that I cancelled by armband subscription, my armband was not even a year old, and swore I would never buy another product from them. Okay rant over.

    I used to have a Jawbone UP24, and my customer service experiences were so awful I'd never again recommend them to anyone.

    Yes, my husband's TDEE is much higher than mine... I have lost 70 lbs by knowing my own TDEE, so I am fully aware of how it works... I have calculated his TDEE and it's much lower than what the surge will guesstimate even on his most sedentary days... by well over 1000 calories. His TDEE is approx 3300... surge will guesstimate calories burned at 4700 when he's done nothing... and he's lost 0 lbs. I've lost 11 lbs since he's had his surge. I've told him to drop his cal intake but he hasn't yet.... which tells me that hes eating closer to maintenance than anything, and thus surge is wrong. He primarily likes it for HR function and the connectivity to his phone.

    My fitbit flex hasn't been bad, though. I just really don't like it on my wrist.

    I had a polar and lost 40 lb with it. Git a fitbit and gained 30 back bx i eat my calories and it said i burned like 2800 cals a day. Now i have a microsoft band and im losing the gained weight, bc with hiit and weight 4-5 days a week, power walking for 2 miles a day and doing tons of stairs, still only burning 2200 calories a day
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