Fitbit and other "all-day" monitors

Anyone have one? Find it useful?

I love my FitBit, but I'm also trying to see if I can "walk across the US" by wearing it everyday.  Currently I'm challenging myself on my non workout days to hit 6500.  I NEED to be looking at it towards the end of the day to "make" myself walk a little more but I haven't been.

I just bought a heart rate monitor so I can see how many calories I burn during exercise.  My current goal is to burn 2000 calores a week.

Ms Shell

I've got a HR monitor that I wear at the gym. I don't know how true to calorie calculations are (for a 75 minute workout with cardio and weights, HR between 115 and 155) the result is 800-1000 cals) but it's fun to compare days and workouts to see what makes me work harder.

I had a Fitbit and I loved it...it was wonderful.  I wore mine on my waistband.  One day at work I was busy pulling files and making copies all day for auditors.  Well I must have banged it up against the counter because...the next thing I know one piece is still hooked to my waistband and two more pieces are on the floor!!!  I was sooo sad.  I broke it...I broke it good!!!

If you get one..my suggestion is to hook it to your bra.  If had done that I would still have mine!!!  Not to mention if I bang my chest on something my Fitbit is protected by lots of booby padding!!! 

I have an app I use in my phone called MOVES that I have used and liked a lot.  And since we all carry our phone with us everywhere it's perfect to use as a pedometer. 

There are several makers and types now - one you wear as a bracelet and download into your computer. I just don't know whether it's worth the $.

I thought it was worth it.  I just have to wait to buy a new one.  Maybe I will get one for my birthday.  But I would like to get another one.  It made me more aware of my movement and I would step it up if I was not doing as well.  I also liked that the Fitbit could monitor your sleep too.  I liked that I could download it see my progress from the week...I like graphs.  I miss my Fitbit.

Like I said I wouldn't put it on your waistband if your doing something like I was...you could end up breaking it.  I kick myself all of the time.  It's been about a month since it broke and I still mourn the death of my Fitbit.

Crystal, did you contact Fitbit? I have known other people to have lost/broken their Fitbit and then they get them replaced for free. I'm not sure how long you had it before it broke but it may be worth a shot to call.

Love my fitbit.  My hubby and I each have one and we can get competitive.  We'd like to get them for other family members for Christmas & see if we can get some healthy competition going.  I like it cuz it can monitor your sleep patterns & stuff too.  The company I work for is encouraging pedometer use & stuff in that if we wear them and get to a certain level of steps in a year then we get different incentives.  For my fitbit I have to be careful with my heartrate at the gym.  It can get too high.  There's a HR monitor that looks like a wris****ch & it communicates to me if my heart rate gets to high & then it communicates to the fitbit when they are both plugged into the computer to track my steps and my cardio.  Pretty cool.  Gives me something else to be obsessive/compulsive about rather than food.  Hmmm... a health transfer addiction?

btw, we got ours on amazon.com for less than what they had at the sporting goods place.  I heard some costco's have them but did not see them at ours.

Hey there! Nice to see YOU back, too!