Quote:Does fit bit calculate the calories burned by just figuring all this stuff out?

You give it some info about your height, weight and activity level and basically all the fitbit does it track steps taken. Walking, running or climbing (even in place) it tracks. It converts all your activity into a calories burned amount.


You have to enter the food and calories in, which can be a pain, but once you use it for a few weeks everything you eat is saved in there and it pops up pretty quick.


You also have to manually enter things like push-ups or pull-ups because it can't track those.


When you start it asks you what your goal weight is, how fast you wanna get there etc., and then basically tells you based on the activity you're doing above (in real time) when you need to be more active or when your close to eating too much. Or when you burned enough to cheat a little bit.


For me it's more of a motivating tool. Something about graphing how many calories I'm consuming every day makes me not want to cheat nearly as often. Also, seeing a date that I'm on track to hit goals by works well for me.

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