FITBIT AND MYFITNESSPAL

I love my fitbit as well. I've found it helpful and motivating in a few ways. When I'm not able to get directly to MFP I can take a quick look at the fitbit for an estimate of calories burned, keeping track of steps taken and floors walked help as well. I'm always trying to be previous records. In addition, the fitbit will adjust exercise calories based on activities throughout the day. If it feels as though you've been extra active, it will tag on extra calories that you can consume.

Highly recommended!

I love my fitbit! Basically what fitbit does is it links with MFP and then calculates your average calorie burn from your normal lifestyle, like sedatary, lightly active, etc. when fitbit counts that you go over your daily normal burn, it then sends a calorie burn to MFP. So days you don't 'do extra' it won't count on MFP. It's very useful if you use it when you move, but if you do do a lot of exercises like weight lifting, it will count the steps from going between machines or sets of weights, but it can't count the calories you burn from lifting.

I hope that helps. I think it's great, great battery life, easy to use website, links with MFP, it's really small too! (which could also make it easy to lose lol).

I got mine new off ebay for 75 rather than 100.

I have ad my fitbit for about two weeks now. I will reiterate the above post that for tracking sleep alone, it is worth it. Quality is a big factor in losing weight and this has been very helpful in monitoring how I'm doing. I am also more motivated to be active throughout the day and not just during my more intense planned exercise times. The fitbit website has some useful graphs and reports as well to show how you are doing.

I love my fitbit! Basically what fitbit does is it links with MFP and then calculates your average calorie burn from your normal lifestyle, like sedatary, lightly active, etc. when fitbit counts that you go over your daily normal burn, it then sends a calorie burn to MFP. So days you don't 'do extra' it won't count on MFP. It's very useful if you use it when you move, but if you do do a lot of exercises like weight lifting, it will count the steps from going between machines or sets of weights, but it can't count the calories you burn from lifting.

I hope that helps. I think it's great, great battery life, easy to use website, links with MFP, it's really small too! (which could also make it easy to lose lol).

I got mine new off ebay for 75 rather than 100.

I hope that wasn't too confusing lol you can message me if you want or have any questions about it.

I love fitbit, I got mine back in April. I wear it everyday, clipped to my bra and then sleep with it on my wrist at night. I like that it tracks not only steps but elevation too. Every 10 feet up or down is counted as a floor. I love the fact that it just adds the calories burned straight to MFP for me. Plus it only needs charged like once a week, and it only takes like 5 minutes. I really enjoy looking at the charts, especially after exercise. My husband gets a kick out of seeing what it says we burn after sex lol. *rolls eyes* It's well worth the money!

Love my fitbit! Very motivational tool. Sleep tracker is very insightful!

warning - FItBIt is addictive

TOTALLY AGREE!!! Absolutely love it.. feel naked without it!

I love my FitBit. I took it out on a hike on 4th fo July and logged 33,000 steps and 251 flights of stairs. It was incredibly motivational just getting up the mountain. I am about 900 steps under 10,000 right now, so I am going to walk the dogs rather than sending my husband out (its his turn tonight but I have steps to get!) Its motivational on an hourly basis too - I realize I only have 1 leaf after sitting at my desk at work, so I will take a stroll around the building (500 steps and a flight of stairs). I will not take an escalator because it erroneously counts it as stairs and I won't cheat my FitBit.

... and I won't cheat my FitBit.

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... and I won't cheat my FitBit.

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My FitBit says things like, "Walk Me Shannon" and I sometimes have low motivation days that make me think, "I'm neglecting my FitBit" and so I get off my butt to do stuff. My FitBit are my active husband and our active dogs' best friend, because I am far more motivated to go do things because it means something, I have quantifiable evidence that I am doing better with my physical activity. It was the same thing that happened when I got my bike computer. I biked harder to get my average MPH up over X number.