Anyone Use a FitBit Ultra?

I love mine, and it does sync up with myfitnesspal, just remember to only record your food on myfitnesspal.com, the fitbit will take care of how many calories you burn for exercise etc. And then you will see it on myfitnesspal.com.

I've had mine for a week and I absolutely LOVE it. It synchs with MFP seamlessly and all my MFP info synchs with the Fitbit website. I almost didn't get it because it doesn't work for bicycling. Now I charge it when I'm cycling. The feature that convinced me to buy it is that it logs your sleep. I've had sleep issues for several years now and it's very informative to see how long it took me to fall asleep and how many times I woke up during the night as opposed to my perception or memory. It love that it tracks my activitry whether I am cleaning house, grocery shopping, or walking. It's the best $100 I have spent in a long time.

I've also just recently started using the Fitbit Ultra and I do love it. I look forward to seeing my steps go up. I do have a question if any of you using the integration between Fitbit and MyFitnessPal have noticed that it only seems to log the calorie adjustment for the current date and then they are removed from my previous entries. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if it should work this way?

should you wear it while at the gym? like, would it track my progress on an elliptical or on a stationary bike? Or should I leave it at home when I go to the gym and log those times manually?

You should definitely wear your FitBit Ultra while at the gym. When you log the exercise in MFP, be sure to note the time when you started and FitBit and MFP will reconcile the activity data. Use the calorie calculation from the piece of equipment or use a heart rate monitor to track the calories burned. Whatever way you choose, be sure to enter your current weight as that will be used to calculate the calories burned. Good luck!

you should still put in the time and the excercise you did in mfp then the fitbit does a calories burned adjustment.

I have one and it is brilliant.

When you do excercise here is what you do.

1. As you start any excercise you hold in the button and it flips to 'activity mode'. When you finish hold it again and it says 'stop'.

2. When you go to the fitbit site you will see any activities you have logged with exact times. Make a note of the logged times.

3. Go to MyFitnessPal site and log your activity with those exact times. It will then be sent to the FitBit site and overwrite your 'activity mode' sessions with the actual excercise.

This is very important because say you do a 5k run, the FitBit will record your steps but not how fast or far you have gone. By doing the above it can work out how far you have gone in those steps and makes all your data correct.

Do this for every activity. So if you are in the gym and you do a run then a row you make 2 activity mode logs. One for the run then do it again for the row. When you go to the site you will have 2 logs to input data for from MyFitnessPal. Just make sure to see the exact times to input from the FitBit site so you can match them exactly.

You also use the activity mode to track your sleep.

The FitBit is amazing. I wouldn't be without it now. I walk extra just to get my badges etc.

Does anyone understand the "Fitbit Calorie Adjustment" made each day in MFP? I spent about 5 hours yesterday building a fence. When I looked this morning on Fitbit.com, it showed I had burned 2,995 calories yesterday based solely on Fitbit. Yet, when I checked yesterday's MFP exercise log, the Fitbit Calories Adjustment was only 720. Somewhere I seem to have lost 2,275 burned calories!!!! I know I still burned them (because I'm feeling it today) but it's troubling that the sync only seemed to have picked up a fraction of what I did. Anyone underestand this sync business and how it works?

You need to switch to activity mode when doing an activity. (see my post above). Without you telling it you are in an activity it only moitors your BMR and Steps taken. You should have made the activity then in MFP inputted the calories burned for that time. It would then talk to Fitbit.com and tell it that for that activity you recorded you burned x calories.

I LOVE mine. Here's a quick write up that I did when I first got mine.

http://feedsparingly.blogspot.com/2012/01/fitbit-ultra.html

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Does it require a chest strap? How do you wear it to calculate sleep?

comes with a strap. you wear it on your wrist.

Does anyone understand the "Fitbit Calorie Adjustment" made each day in MFP? I spent about 5 hours yesterday building a fence. When I looked this morning on Fitbit.com, it showed I had burned 2,995 calories yesterday based solely on Fitbit. Yet, when I checked yesterday's MFP exercise log, the Fitbit Calories Adjustment was only 720. Somewhere I seem to have lost 2,275 burned calories!!!! I know I still burned them (because I'm feeling it today) but it's troubling that the sync only seemed to have picked up a fraction of what I did. Anyone underestand this sync business and how it works?

The FitBit adjustment is not a sync, it is an adjustment. The FitBit adjustment basically tells MFP that it has underestimated the number of calories you burned, by approximately 720 calories. Remember that the MFP value is an educated guess based on your height, weight and what you select as your activity level (sedentary, lightly active, etc.) This is where the power of the FitBit comes in--it fine tunes that educated guess. Some days you'll actually burn calories very close to the MFP number. When you build fences it will be higher. The fitbit adjustment will increase the number based on the data it recorded through your activities.

I love my Fitbit. I love the way it adjusts and works with MFP. I tend to stick with the calories that the Fitbit says I can eat rater than MFP since it takes into account how much I have been walking/active during the day and MFP doesn't. On MFP you enter in sedentary lifestyle that's all you get the FitBit knows you have been moving and not that sedentary and it makes the adjustment. LOVE IT! and it works well with MFP. I track food and activity on MFP and it syncs with the FitBit all on it's own.

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I have one and it is brilliant.

When you do excercise here is what you do.

1. As you start any excercise you hold in the button and it flips to 'activity mode'. When you finish hold it again and it says 'stop'.

2. When you go to the fitbit site you will see any activities you have logged with exact times. Make a note of the logged times.

3. Go to MyFitnessPal site and log your activity with those exact times. It will then be sent to the FitBit site and overwrite your 'activity mode' sessions with the actual excercise.

This is very important because say you do a 5k run, the FitBit will record your steps but not how fast or far you have gone. By doing the above it can work out how far you have gone in those steps and makes all your data correct.

Do this for every activity. So if you are in the gym and you do a run then a row you make 2 activity mode logs. One for the run then do it again for the row. When you go to the site you will have 2 logs to input data for from MyFitnessPal. Just make sure to see the exact times to input from the FitBit site so you can match them exactly.

You also use the activity mode to track your sleep.

The FitBit is amazing. I wouldn't be without it now. I walk extra just to get my badges etc.

This is great! I couldn't quite figure out how to do the whole "add exercise" thing. This is such a good explanation...I just copied it and emailed it to myself so I could have it in my phone
Thanks!!