FitBit

My understanding is it tracks ALL of your motion. I love mine. I spent an entire day cleaning my garage and it had tracked all of my motion; up and down stairs, carrying chairs outside, etc. Even though I logged no exercise on MFP, it gave me 1200 additional calories at the end of the day,and I knew it was accurate based on how exhausted I was.

I think Amazon has it cheaper than Best Buy, etc, at around 88 dollars.

you can find them on ebay for a bit cheaper some times. I have hesitated because of the price myself but people who use it say its amazing

110% worth it. It has been my lil motivater to keep going and I have lost 6.3 pounds in 3 weeks , it seems to keep me honest about things. Sounds strange but it is my own lil personal trainer to me.

I have a fitbit ultra. It counts my steps and has an altimeter to get credit for stairs and walking up hills. It also has a process to log your sleep and calculate the time and quality of your sleep. It's supposed to have a 3d motion sensor to track your steps, distance, calories burned better than a pedometer. It won't be able to tell the difference between you riding your bike or doing kettle bell. It has "activities" where you enter those things. Fortunately it syncs with MFP since I like to use this exercise data base better.

It has really helped increase my activity. I've been known to walk or climb stairs because I'm soo close to earning another badge. My grandchildren ask how big my flower is...it grows with activity and will shrink with inactivity.

Money is tight but I think the purchase is worth it.

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I love my fitbit, it is addicting. Mine goes everywhere with me, and I pet it often I love mine becuse I love the visual graphs and I do a lot of walking and hiking. It is great for those activities. It depends on how accurate you want and what activities/how often you want to track. It is not accurate for stuff like weight lifting. I have heard of people clipping it to a leg for stationary bikes. For me I love it because with the hiking I do it gives me a general idea of elevation gain, it tracks sleep, pace, cals burned every 5 minutes. I am a data junkie so I love all the graphs, I track all kinds of stuff on my fitbit dashboard and it plots it all out, All my measurements, weight BMI, body fat. You can also keep a journal, track allergies, glucose, blood pressure, and add your own stuff to track as well, like I track how many minutes a day I spend on fitness, you can set all kinds of goals, like how many steps, how far, how high, how many cals you want to burn in a day. You can sign up for the site just to check some stuff out. I bought mine used on ebay for 84$ USD including shipping, downside it had data from previous user on it, and it keeps lifetime data, so I spent a whole day breaking all previous records on it, so if you don't care about someone elses data get a used one.

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My understanding is it tracks ALL of your motion. I love mine. I spent an entire day cleaning my garage and it had tracked all of my motion; up and down stairs, carrying chairs outside, etc. Even though I logged no exercise on MFP, it gave me 1200 additional calories at the end of the day,and I knew it was accurate based on how exhausted I was.

I think Amazon has it cheaper than Best Buy, etc, at around 88 dollars.

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So it gave your extra calories at the end of the day? Mine did that yesterday but it showed a lot less calories burned on MFP than it showed on the Fitbit display.
-Evelyn

It will count those calories. I find it to be pretty accurate. I hear that other people find HRMs to be more accurate, but I do love my Fitbit.

One small quibble I have is that, because it does NOT calculate heart rate, that it doesn't always take the intensity of a workout into consideration. It seems to calculate the calories burned similarly to other measures for the same exercise that I find on websites, etc. But I hiked straight up a mountain a week ago, and it measured my activity as "moderate", although I was out of breath and sweating. Other things it calculates as "intense". So I do question that at times.

I hope this helps. I love it, and have no interest in switching to a HRM.

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I bought my FitBit yesterday and right away synced it to MFP but I'm not seeing the calories burned being transferred over to MFP. I know its synced correctly, my food in take is being transferred to FB. Any ideas? I'd like to have it also move the info over to MFP. Other than that so far I love it.

not sure if someone has answered this question yet, but it will adjust your calories once it has reached a point to increase your calorie allowance (hope that make sense) a certain amount of activity is assumed in your original profile (sedetary, lightly active, etc) because the two programs work together it wil adjust accordingly....as long as you see your food showing up on fitbit it is def. communicating

it also takes a little longer for the calories to show up on MFP...not sure why but i do notice my food shows up quicker than my calories adjust

It depends on how you set up your diet profile on MFP too. I was getting more exercise calories when I said I was sedentary. But over time I have started to exercise more and so I changed my profile. It was getting hard to adjust my meal planning when I was getting so many exercise calories. But now saying I'm lightly active with 5 workouts a week, I am getting a smaller bump for exercise calories. I do think it's important to do this.... because I think I wasn't getting enough calories for awhile there before I adjusted it. It's easier to plan my day out when it's only 100-150 calorie adjustment for me.

I get exercise calories now if I go over about 7000 - 7500 steps in the day. Depends on what kind of activity too.

Fitbit also lets you set up a goal weight and a profile with your height, weight, etc. So it will set you a food goal too. Is your food diary transferring to Fitbit? Does it say how many calories you have eaten today? It's under Food Plan. One of the main reasons I joined MFP was for the food data base, it's much better than what's on Fitbit. It's easier to log my food here.

Fitbit will give you a goal range so you know if you are in a good range for the day. It will take 500 calories off like MFP too (if you say you want to lose 1 lb a week)

So you have to burn more calories than your BMR and what you put in for exercise on MFP. Even then, if you are sort of sedentary for the rest of the day..... some of those exercise calories will disappear.

Not yet. I understand how it is supposed to adjust but so far nothing is adjusting in MFP.

As I understand it, calories will only be added if the calories you FitBit calculates are more than the ones MFP has set as your normal daily calorie burn. To find that out from My Home click on Goals, in the right hand column you will find a section near the top, Calories burned. The number you want is "From normal daily activity". If you Fitbit calories are higher than that number it should be adding the difference to MFP. At least that is how I think it works. I don't have a FitBit so I am not sure.

I've only had mine 3 days but so far I can see it tracks all of your movements, including during sleep if you want it to! Last night my sleep was 92% effective! Cool! I like the idea of setting goals of XX steps or XX flights of stairs and I'm sure it will get me up and off my butt more. I haven't been working out due to a medical condition, but I'm hoping to be cleared once again today and can't wait to see what I'll log once I'm back in my groove!