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Does anyone else here use a Fitbit? http://www.fitbit.com/?

Mine arrived yesterday and I'm already hooked. I love the idea of setting goals and competing with myself.

I did 4215 steps during 35 minutes of Zumba this morning.
 
I looked at one of these, I was especially interested in the sleep bit.

I'm a sucker for fitness gadgets. My two favorites are my Garmin GPS watch and my Withings wifi scales. I reckon that the scales show exactly when I caught the old diabetes, from where my weight increases to a maximum, and then suddenly starts dropping for no apparent reason.

Let us know how you get on with it.
 
Day one of the Fitbit has been really interesting.

I'm quite pleased with the amount of steps as I was working today and not able to get my usual amount of exercise in.

 
Yes, I'm interested too. How does it know how often you wake up and how long it takes to go to sleep?
 
You wear the Fitbit in a wristband and log the time you go to bed and get up and your sleep time comes up in a graph. I'm very interested to see what it says about my sleep as I am a rubbish sleeper.
 
Here's my log from last night. I seem to have inherited the family trait for insomnia and usually get up early

 
Ouch - I see what you mean about being a rubbish sleeper :shock:

but how does it know how long it took you to fall asleep?
 
I know and going to bed early doesn't help because I'm just wide awake at 1-2 am. When I had the stroke I slept for ages which was rather nice, but now I'm back to my usual dire pattern.
 
It must measure motion. I think it's quite neat.

My goal today is to climb 30 floors.
 
The Fitbit tracker knows you are asleep when the motion sensor registers a lack of movement for a period of time. We use algorithms based on heaps of academic sleep research and this is switched on when you press the button for 1 second to go into "sleep" mode.
Two sensors inside the tracker. One is a 3D accelerometer, similar to that in a Wii or in an iPad / iPhone and the second sensor is an altimeter.
 
Blimey do you trawl forums where fit bit is mentioned. Seriously thinking of getting one tho.
 
Hello Fitbit UK

Dawn, I love my Fitbit. Yesterday I was challenged to climb 100 floors, so I did. The downside is that I had a bloody great big liver dump overnight because I finished the floors far too late in the evening. Next time I'll get my timings right. I do love a challenge and competing against myself.
 
Did you get yours off amazon? As for trawling I meant fitbit uk not you hun.
 
Yes, I got mine from Amazon.

I know you meant Fitbit. I think they must search themselves on Google

There's a Fitbit community as well, so if you get one, let me know and I'll friend you.
 
I have had one for a couple of months and find it very good. It has helped me enormously in my fitness regime, however it is not very good at logging cycling (which is fully recognized by the company) and so I use a Heart Rate Monitor linked to my iPhone and running the Digifit app. It, along with www.myfitnesspal.com app, integrate and give a good overall picture.
 
I really like the look of this. If they could shrink it down to a watch, I'd buy one in a heartbeat...
 
Patch, it is a tiny wee thing that you clip on. It is about 2 inches long and 0.5 inches wide.

Since last Friday when I got going with it I have walked 50 miles. It is very motivating. I just want to push myself a bit more each day.
 
No it is not waterproof, per se but if you do accidentally submerge it the advice is to put it in a bowl of rice, which will soak up the moisture. Don't think it is guaranteed to work - I won't be trying it!
 
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