Who has a Fitbit?

PM Lisa (lkct01234). She's been using one for a few months now. Seems to like it okay.

You guys are lucky......my company gives us GPS's on our vehicles and body cameras.

I have one but don't use it anymore. I actually really liked it and I replaced it with the Garmin Vivoactive which was more useful to me. It tracks steps and does the GPS swimming/cycling/running ... so i don't need two devices. But the fitbit is good. 

The dashboard has a nice interface and you can basically wear it all the time. The hilarious thing though is it doesn't pick up swimming or cycling - you'll get some steps but when you look at the dashboard it will show that time as 'moderate' activity - which to me would be hilarious after masters swim where i was gasping for air and working very very hard!  So you have to take it for what its worth but i like that little bit of check-in to see that i've gotten off my butt enough in the day. 

I don't bother tracking my sleep. I have a toddler. I don't need to know when i've had a bad night sleep. I know. 

I really do not think I need a device to tell if I slept well or not, but I think it will be interesting. I have ordered mine (not the free one, but one at a discounted price) and will give it a try.

My wife has one.  She uses it mostly to track her walking steps on a weekly basis.  Had a battery that wouldn't hold a charge, got it replaced under warranty.  She seems to like it.

It's nothing that I have any interest in, so I'm sticking to my Timex GPS training watch for now.

That being said, the wearable device market is hot and I would expect some neat stuff hitting the market in the near future.  I figure eventually we'll all have implanted chips and virtual displays on our goggles and sunglasses.

Mark 

No WE won't.

Is this a Mormon company??

I've got the Charge HR. I have worn it pretty regularly since about January. I like to see what's going "on" but I can't say that it really "encourages me."

But yes, like someone mentioned...it is not waterproof and doesn't have GPS. (But I wanted an accelerometer more than GPS.)

With that being said...I'm going to be rewarding myself with the Garmin 225 if I keep up with my current walking/training plan. (But...I get an employee discount...)

Hope you enjoy it!

I had one for YEARS.  Just gave it up and  honestly, felt free after doing it.  It would bother the heck out of me if I missed a day for some reason.

Here's my opinion (BTW, only reporting the older ULTRA model - only had steps and sleep).  If your are inactive and don't know how many calories you are burning in a day (or estimating incorrectly) AND you use the associated website to track food - it could help.  It's just a nice way to track calories in vs out and it compares them and lets you know if you are on track.

HOWEVER, FOR ME, it didn't "work".  The fitbit worked great.  And I logged every morsel of food and every calorie.  I did the suggested deficit or even exceeded it (which is something you can set up.  A goal for weight loss and it lets you know if you are on track or not.  I was running on a 1000-1600 calorie deficit average per day and not dropping a SINGLE POUND for months and months and months.  If calories in vs out actually is correct, and the calories burned was accurate per the fitbit, and my meticulous input of calories was correct (weighed, measured, accounted for everything), then I was an anomaly - because I couldn't lose and ounce.

So then I saw a nutritionist and ate more, sopped counting calories, ate better and lost weight.  Weird.  So if was not going to use fitbit to track food, I used it just to log calories burned with moving and workouts but lost all the "tracking" if I wasn't logging in food.  Knowing calories burned and steps is novel, but I'm not sure if it's that usefull.

I think if you are basically inactive and need some motivation, it could be good.  For active people who are basically aware of their activity and food, it's probably unneeded data.  OR, if you a data nut, I suppose.

I can't say it is bad since I used it for 4-5 ears but breaking away from electronics and data was nice.  Early on it was nice to try to break steps/floors/salories-a-day records, or hit total miles/steps milestones.  You can compete against friends, etc.  So if that motivates you, awesome.  I just lost any use for it.   

Side note, if I were to do something like a fitbit again, I have looked pretty hard at the Polar M400.  Counts steps, tracks sleep, GPS, HR, talks to you smartphone.  Does everything fitbit does and also works with training software and puts all your data into training peaks, or BT, or adds it to data if you use other higher end polar products you might use for training.

Polar also has a lot of other "training" features like "own zone" "training results" etc.  The M400 is less than $200 from best buy so cheaper than the Fitbit with GPS model.

I got mine yesterday!

Anyone want to know how many steps I took yesterday?

(I see this lasting a couple of weeks at best)

So, you easily get 10k steps a day?