FitBit Users

I just ordered one....

I've been wanting one for awhile. But wanted to see if anyone was using and how'd they liked it. I'm sold. My 19th year anniversary is tomorrow so it's time to start making my hints. lol

I wonder if there is something cheaper that will upload on here? I'd hate to spend that much $ for something and then it breaks...

I wonder if there is something cheaper that will upload on here? I'd hate to spend that much $ for something and then it breaks...

If you look thru previous posts on MFP, you'll see that they're quick to replace a broken FB, no questions asked.

It is fun, that is for sure, and interesting if you like looking at numbers. I find it motivating as I hate to see my activity level being low and my allowed calories dropping according to how much I move each day. How accurate it is I do not know really. I have a hrm as well and sometimes it does underestimate things like cycling so I have to manually input my exercise. It is interesting for monitoring sleep, but other than being informative in that sense, I wouldn't say it has much use there. You tend to know by tiredness if you haven't slept well.

It is need and can clip just about anywhere and seems to stay secure. It is discrete, you can wear it under your clothing. But longterm, I am not sure it is a good investment as after a month or two, you will know the average calorie burn you get under different conditions.

My mother ordered one off ebay for me for my 30th birthday. I've only been wearing it a week, but i love it. i love tracking my sleep and meeting my steps goal each day. you do have to be patient while the info on fitbit uploads to mfp. i do question the amount of calories it says im burning just while at work or doing grocery shopping. I work retail so I understand Im on my feet alot. Today it said I burned 450 calories or so just at work! Guess I'll see if I keep losing or if its having me eat extra calories soon enough.

I wonder if there is something cheaper that will upload on here? I'd hate to spend that much $ for something and then it breaks...

That's another GREAT selling point!! Fitbit's customer service is the bomb!!! There have been many many people who have *lost, *swam with theirs on, and even dropped it in the road it got ran over....fitbit replaced them for FREE!!!
They also replace the ones that have defects and flaws and wuit working but they even replace ones that were messed up and was of no fault of theirs. (one lady washed and dried hers! they replaced it!!)

I broke mine while it was on my hip...I ran into the counter in my kitchen and it broke into pieces...I was able to fix it and it still worked but I dropped the button pieces down the air vent and had to use something to stick in the hole to use the button...I emailed them and got a new one in 3 days!! They are amazing!

I love my fitbit. There are a couple other high tech gadgets that do similar things (boddy fit media, bodybugg) but they are over $100 (130-170) and you have to pay a monthly fee to use their website and have them sync etc...they do not auto sync you have to plug them in and one of them ,I don't remember which, doesn't sync to MFP.

For me, fitbit was the best deal

I LOVE my Fitbit. Well worth the money. I have had mine since April, and never take it off, except to bathe, shower or swim.

I damaged my cartilage in my knee back in September, and was unable to walk without crutches and agony. The Fitbit has helped me work on the physio I was given. I now walk between 7k and 15k steps a day.

I log my exercise on Fitbit site, and log food on MFP. That works for me.

I have been using a Fitbit for a few months now and hate it when I forget it. But know this...it's based on GPS location, not heart rate. Soooo, if you walk a 12-min mile...then you walk that very same 12-min mile with 2 1/2 lb ankle weights, Fitbit will not recognize that you actually worked harder during your second workout...unless maybe you go into the Fitbit dashboard and change your weight to reflect the additional 5 lbs.

A Fitbit is GREAT for walking, running, jogging. And it tracks your daily steps and stairwell climbs...even when you're not working out. But it won't do much for a workout that's primarily standing in one place lifting a bunch of weight. You'd want to wear your HRM for that.

All that being said, my cardio workouts are mostly walking/running and dance aerobics and I rely on my Fitbit to count my steps and calories...then it's on me to track any calories eaten...and I'm down 20 lbs since the beginning of March. : )

I've had mine for almost a week and I'm enjoying it. I need to calculate my stride length to get it accurate, though... if I walk too fast at this point, it seems to think that I'm running and messes some stuff up.

One thing to realize, though... it's not an HRM. If you're going to the gym or focusing on a specific workout, an HRM will probably be more accurate and to your liking. The purpose of a Fitbit is to track your overall daily activity and encourage you to walk more, take the stairs more often, etc. So it depends on where you want to focus.

Love my Fitbit! !!!! Syncs just fine with MFP. I log my food on MFP & let Fitbit adjust my calories. The only activity I enter on MFP is water aerobics as I cannot wear my Fitbit in the pool! !!

I adjusted my calories based on Fitbit. Averaged my burn for the month of May and used that #-15% as my goal & only eat over my goal if my Net is bellw my BMR & I started losing again. Very excited.

I've been using this about three weeks now. I won't go into the whole thing as there are 1200 reviews as I write this and I probably have nothing to add but my own feelings toward the Fitbit.

This is a pedometer. Not extremely accurate at that. I keep it in my pants pocket. By the time I put my pants on I have 27 to 37 steps logged. It also does not always count stairs (floors) and has at least one time given me two floors I did not climb at all.

The sleep feature? It really doesn't work all that well. It showed me asleep when I know for a fact I was not -- I was reading and petting the cat. It did tell me how many times I got up during the night but I don't need a gadget to tell me that.

Customer service is horrible. No phone. You have to email them and their emails are not always helpful and they may not even respond.

This product enjoys it's popularity because of people raving about it to each other -- selling each other on buying this expensive gadget. Also the Fitbit website with it's individual "dashboards" makes the data somewhat useful and people enjoy competing with one another.

If you're a runner or walk a lot, you'll likely enjoy this unit. Of course, there are more accurate pedometers for about half the price.

But it's NOT an activity monitor. It won't track any activity but steps. Oh, you'll get some numbers but they won't be right. Close at times but not really right and lots of variables come into play.

If you buy into the hype, get the unit. It's a fun little play thing. But if you're just wanting to gauge your steps, get a decent pedometer that doesn't cost so much.

I've had mine since January :-)

I finally completed my Fitbit vs Bodybugg review: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Masq

I also learned something else about the fitbit.... Someone else posted how it figures the calorie adjustment that pulls into MFP.
If you go to 'my home' and then to 'goals' - there is a number of calories you are expected to burn during normal daily activities. Currently mine says 2140. I set up a spreadsheet and logged all of the fitbit info for calories burned and then the adjustments that MFP had. They didn't equal the 2140.... but for the first week, everyday, was adjusted to 2157. The next week everyday but one was adjusted to 2157. When I entered a lower weight for myself on MFP, the adjustment went down to 2151 and then again to 2135. A hand full of days did not match.... but that's OK since the majority do.
I assume that the total calories burned per day will go down as your weight goes down.....
I am happy to finally understand how it is calculating the number and how I need to use that number

Sometimes, the adjustment still changes - I still don't know why that happens... maybe the fitbit is estimating your calories burned thru out the day and then it updates the final number at the end of the day??