Anyone have a Fitbit?
Hi Linda
I purchased a Fitbit 18 months ago....I think its called a ONE....its the type I clip on my bra every morning
What I truly find amazing....is how it has changed my behavior.....
I have not registered for "friends" .....this is all about me and my habits....but if you like that motivation you can see what other people - "friends"- are completing daily
I put it on every day....and check it every night....and love to see the steps I am completing....especially when I walk the golf course....
Its a real motivator for me....I would purchase another if I lost this one.....( and I put mine thru the washer the first week....took a licking and came out ticking!)
I hate the fitbit flex, but LOVE my fitbit one. I also sync it with myfitness pal and track what I eat there. I am looking into the fitbit force which is basically the one and the flex all meshed together and you can wear it on your wrist like the flex. I did not like the flex because after having the one..I wanted to see my numbers not just lights flashing. Have fun with yours.
Your numbers are just a touch away on your computer or smartphone! Since I have my smartphone with me almost all the time, I only have a few taps and have more info than I could ever see on my wrist. Still, whatever floats your boat. The Force does look interesting, but the Flex provides me with all I need. ;D
Success supposes endeavor. - Jane Austen
Unfortunately my numbers are not just a touch away, I can not have the information on my work computer as our firewall will block it all the time and to rely on my phone it drains the battery too quickly as I have to have the blue tooth turned on, so it just does not work. The force is basically like the ones you clip to your clothes but you wear it on the wrist.
I decided that I need to get moving more. As they say, you need to move it or lose it. So, I bought a Fitbit Flex. I started wearing it on October 17th. Yesterday (two weeks later), I got an email saying that I'd walked over 50 miles in those two weeks! I'm not really into competing with other people, but I do get pretty competitive with myself. I'm really enjoying using this thing. You can link up your food diary from a couple of different sites (I use My Fitness Pal) and you can also link up our workouts (I use Endomondo Sports Tracker). It's really fun - especially when it does a little dance on your wrist when you hit 10,000 steps each day.
I have had a Fitbit for close to 2 years and it is a great motivator to get the steps and flights of stairs in daily. It will also calculate any hill you climb for a flight of stairs, the device measures barimetric pressure. My husband decided he wanted one also and we bought the Fitbit One which ended up being too little for his big man fingers so I took the new one and he has my hand me down, the Fitbit Ultra (which they do not sell anymore). We both challenge each other with our steps and stair climbing. He is retired and walks a lot during the day and my work entails walking in the building and stairwells also. We ended up calculating our strides because it seemed like we were getting too many steps for our height/age/sex. Fitbit tells you how to do this. We now have more accurate steps for ourselves. The Fitbit One sincs to my Smartphone also.
We do not get into the food diary part of the tool. That is just us.
Keep up the good work everyone that uses the Fitbit or whichever like took that you have to motivate your journey.
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