Your opinion on FITBIT

can someone tells me what happens with the fitbit when you're driving - both pedometers I have keep registering steps when I drive, and as I drive around a lot (sadly...) I'm wondering whether it's going to miscount for me if I get one.

I love my FitBit so much that I've named it and require my kids to call her by her name Ms Nesbit. It's kind of a cute little game we have so it's not 'oh more of Mom's exercise crap' mentality.

I only take mine off to shower. I check it constantly and it motivates me to do more everyday. It syncs with MFP and also with another place online where you can earn points for exercising based on how much you do per day.

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Cant stress that enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i love mine ... i actually left it on the charger this morning and i feel lost!

i love my fitbit and the customer service is great. i ruined mine in the washing machine and they replaced it for me even though it was completely my fault by my own admission. it really motivates you to get up.

The FitBit is great. However, I've found a limitation. I've started biking to work and I don't want it to record anything during the ride because it would obviously be inaccurate. So, I put it in my backpack. I figured that the relative steady, smooth motion wouldn't trip the accelerometers of the FitBit. I was wrong. It still records steps. I'm not sure how to get around this as I want to wear it at work. Any ideas would be appreciated.

By the way, the best thing about the FitBit in my estimation is that it can give you extra calorie credit in MFP when you do extraordinary walking, such as going shopping at the mall etc. It seems to be able to tell when you are going above and beyond your normal activity and adds an adjustment to MFP so that your actual calorie burn is as accurate as possible.

My Fitbit arrived yesterday and I love it already! It was really easy to set up just using the online instructions. I set it for sleep overnight and it's really interesting - I thought my alarm hadn't gone off at 6 this morning but, no, the fitbit shows that I did wake at 6am and went back to sleep at 6.03. Ooops! Today, I have climbed up 28 floors worth of stairs which it tells me is equivalent to climbing La Danta Pyramid. I KNOW I wouldn't usually do this much. I also went out for a long walk with the baby in the buggy....in the rain! The only question for me is whether it is ok to eat the extra calories I have been credited on mfp - I am used to sticking to 1400 and to go over this seems wrong? Any advice on this gratefully received Off to do some more stairs now ..................

The FitBit is great. However, I've found a limitation. I've started biking to work and I don't want it to record anything during the ride because it would obviously be inaccurate. So, I put it in my backpack. I figured that the relative steady, smooth motion wouldn't trip the accelerometers of the FitBit. I was wrong. It still records steps. I'm not sure how to get around this as I want to wear it at work. Any ideas would be appreciated.

By the way, the best thing about the FitBit in my estimation is that it can give you extra calorie credit in MFP when you do extraordinary walking, such as going shopping at the mall etc. It seems to be able to tell when you are going above and beyond your normal activity and adds an adjustment to MFP so that your actual calorie burn is as accurate as possible.

It's a bit of a hacky workaround, but you could fashion a cradle for when you don't want it to register movement. Look at old BBC photos of radio stages, where the microphones are suspended in springs. You could cut an old water bottle in half, and put the bit inside, suspended by a couple of rubber bands.

Bit hacky, as I say. I havn't got one myself, so I don't know if there's a software solution.

can someone tells me what happens with the fitbit when you're driving - both pedometers I have keep registering steps when I drive, and as I drive around a lot (sadly...) I'm wondering whether it's going to miscount for me if I get one.

My Fitbit records stairs and steps while I drive... a lot, like 7 flights of stairs and 400 steps one way to work. I can override the activity, by setting the timer when I drive, then, logging it as driving on their website. It's feasible for me to do this because I primarily just drive to/from work...about 2 hrs/day round trip. My other option is to take it off and put inside a pair of gloves folded into a ball inside my cup holder. This seems to reduce the overstatement of activity, but I'm always afraid I'm going to forget to put it back on.

I use a Body Bugg and a Fitbit. If I had to choose one, it would be the Body Bugg easy. So, if you can afford it and don't mind the visibility, I would get the new body media core (essentially a newer body bugg). The device isn't much more expensive than a Fitbit, the issue is primarily that you have to pay for the website after the first 3 or 6 months....I think about $7/month.

While I keep it on while I work out, I use it in conjunction with my HRM and log my HRM readings into MFP instead of logging an activity with my fitbit. Because of this, I tend to ignore my fitbit adjustment unless it was an active day that did not include working out. Just my personal preference and it seems to work for me thus far.

That's also what I do. I enter my exercise on MFP and when FitBit syncs with MFP, I believe it matches up the steps it sees with the MFP activity log and lets MFP override its calculations for periods where you have indicated activity.

There is another limitation that I've also run into. Exercising at midnight. If you start an exercise at 11:30 on a Monday, say a treadmill run, and run for an hour some of your steps will be recorded on Monday and some on Tuesday. However, MFP only asks for a single date when you enter in an exercise. This throws the FitBit/MFP sync for a loop as FitBit thinks your entire MFP workout occurred on Monday and thus any steps that were recorded early Tuesday are added as a 'FitBit Adjustment'. I end up having to delete the adjustment, sometimes multiple times (FitBit is persistent) when this occurs.