What FitBit would you get for a 10 year old boy?

Am I the only one that thinks this is a bad idea. I grew up in a household where weight and appearance were very important. I went to my first weigh****chers meeting in the 5th grade. The result of so much pressure about weight, caused me to develop a raging eating disorder. I am finally at a healthy weight thanks to surgery and massive amounts of therapy. But part of me wonders, if my parent's didn't force the diet mentality down my throat, would I have had such a f*ed up relationship with food and my body. 

Can't you just sign him up for sports and give him smaller portions. Stress healthy living and balance vs dieting and calorie/ exercise amounts. 

I reread her initial post, and she didn't mention diet, just healthy meals!  He may not be interested in sports or awkward at them, that's my problem!!  He already loves and is intrigued by her FitBit so it is just incentive to get him moving more and making it fun!!  I don't see the harm in that at all.  I just think maybe you misunderstood her intentions.  They seem pretty grounded!

I think a fitbit is a wonderful idea. Daily activity is important. All the people in our family have fitbits, from 7 up to 75. I hope by being active together as a family, my kids will grow up wanting to be active because they think it is fun (so far, so good).

Do you wear a fitness tracker? I just cannot understand how anyone could think it is a bad idea.

Leto's face it...10 yr olds lose stuff, break stuff, lose interest in stuff...so I woudn't fork out that kind of money.  If he's going to get inspired, why no go with a step counter for $10 or less?

My husband and I both have a Fitbit 1. For us it records all that we need to have for data. The one thing I really like is the fact it records flights of stairs as we have two flights of stairs in our house. It also calculates via elevation if you are walking up more than 10 foot (IE: walking outside and there are hills). It is calculated via barometric pressure. It is a great tool if he has a school that has many stairs in the course of his school day. You get the benefit of the steps and flights of steps. The unit affixes to a waistband, bra (for a lady) or a shirt for others. All of the data is downloaded to a Fitbit profile/dashboard (as they call it).

Go on amazon you can find non brand name ones under $30. That will show steps, heart rate, burned calories, etc. Its not as acurate in the pedometer but decent enough to get a fair idea.

So you also wont be out a bunch of money if lost either. If he shows continued intrest and responsibility then get a pricer one.

Growing up an obese child I would say no to rewards for fitness, and yes to buying the fitbit if he is interested. A little friendly competition on that couldn't hurt...

Somehow I raised a healthy eating, thin, not overweight male adult... he always loved his meals over snacks and would want seconds and thirds...He was never obese, but was always somewhat overweight, the bigger kid in the group..... I was of course always concerned.

Sometimes I would gently/nicely say something to the effect of... You've already had seconds... give it a few minutes if you are still hungry in 10-15-20 minutes(whatever I'd pick) then you can have more. Well he would move onto the next thing and never look back...

He was also a huge water drinker. He only drank water and mil****asionally OJ in the morning... I think that helped as well....

Although now I do encourage even non-WLS people not to drink with their meals, I think that can help anyone to feel full sooner...

Good Luck, this is a tough one... a delicate balance.