Fitbit One Wireless Activity Plus Sleep Tracker, Burgundy

I've had this little guy for over a year now - I wanted to get some mileage out of it before I reviewed it - and I'm still a big fan.First - I opted with the Fitbit One because a.) it had high reviews and b.) I wanted something that did both sleep tracking (so Zip was out) and I didn't have to wear in an ugly bracelet on my wrist (so pretty much everything else was out). I usually keep this in my pocket or clipped to my bra - works great in both places.ACCURACY: when I first got it (and a few times since then) I walked around counting my steps then checked with the fitbit -each time it's been within about 3 steps of how many steps I counted out of 50, regardless of if I wear it on my wrist, clipped to my bra, or in my pocket. just now I stuck it on my wrist and shook my hand back and forth vigorously 20 times and it added on 8 steps, so if you really want to cheat the system you can - though it probably will take more effort to shake on extra steps than actually just walk. I haven't had any problems with it adding on a lot of steps after car rides. I had a baby 6 months ago and have found that it counts bouncing up and down to calm a fussy baby as a step, but I'm cool with that - it's pretty much like jogging in place. the floors climbed feature seems fairly accurate - I haven't actually spent a day counting how many times I go up and down our stairs to compare it and it think it sometimes will count walking up a steep hill as a flight of stairs (once again, I'm cool with that), but on days i'm cleaning the house and thus going up and down stairs more often than usual my flight count is significantly higher. whether or not it gets your distance correct depends on how accurately you set your stride length - I think the easiest way to make sure it's set correctly is to go for a walk and set the GPS tracker on your phone if you have one, then once you get to 1 mile on the GPS check and see what your fitbit is telling you then adjust accordingly.SLEEP TRACKER: it's cool, it shows when you're "asleep" (not moving), when your "restless", and when you're "awake" - there are two settings sensitive and normal, apparently normal is if you're wearing it on your wrist and sensitive is if you have it in a pocket or something (because some pajama's have pockets - you know, for when you need to hold stuff while you're sleeping . . .) I set it on normal because I wear it on my wrist. I tried it on sensitive for a while to see if it worked better - it just freaked me out and told me only 1/2 of my time in bed was spent sleeping - I started wondering if I really was tired and not well rested, even though I never felt like I had trouble sleeping before. . . - just read the instructions and don't freak yourself out. Often times it will show me "restless" times during the night when I am definitely awake nursing - I guess there's a certain movement threshold you have to pass to be considered "awake", so it's not 100% accurate in that regard. it also doesn't coach you in sleeping well - just gives you the raw data on what happened during your night. (which has been super helpful with nursing - it's nice to see the trends of how long the baby's sleeping, how often we're getting up, how long we really are up for, etc. without having to have the presence of mind to make note of it while I'm half asleep). you can set goals on the app for how much sleep you're aiming for each night and set goal go-to-bed and wake-up times. putting the fitbit into and out of sleep mode is super easy (you hold down the button till it buzzes) and if you forget to put it in sleep mode one night or accidentally let it run well into your morning it's easy to go in and fix the times on the app. I love the silent alarms - I was skeptical that a little thing buzzing on my wrist would wake me up - but it works great and my husband appreciates how quiet it is. there is no snooze - which is good for me because I'm one of those snooze five times type people - this forces me to set a realistic time to get up and do it (though to be honest, I set a second alarm 10 minutes after the first one just incase. . .) you can set as many alarms as you want and have them go of on any day you want, so if you want to set alarms to remind you to get up an move around every hour or have an alarm that only wakes you up on* Note: I'm not a big fan of the little sleep wrist thing that comes with the fitbit. after a few months the velcro stated pulling it apart. For a while I cut off the top of one of my husband's socks and wore it folded in thirds on my wrist with the fitbit tucked inside- that worked OK but some nights the fitbit slipped out - now I have a cheap 3rd-party silicone wrist band thing made to fit the fitbit in it - it works great.DURABILITY: I have accidentally washed my fitbit twice and dried it once. it survived. And it counted the spin cycle as active minutes. The charge still lasts for a week or more. I don't recommend forgetting the fitbit in your laundry, but it has held up well to the wet and the heat. I wear it while working out and sweat has never seemed to be a problem for it. It's been over a year and is still working exactly the way it did when I got it. Two weeks ago the little plastic piece on the back of the silicone clip broke - I super glued it back together and so far so good. the clip itself would still be somewhat functional without that little plastic piece - it would just have a metal part poking out that could be poky- but you also can buy third-party replacement clips for $5 or spring for the actual Fitbit replacement clip for 3X more if branding is important to you.APP - i Like the app a lot. I've used it both on a Samsung tablet (android) and on an Iphone and both work great. you can set daily goals, see how much of your daily goal you've achieved, get weekly/monthly/quarterly historical graphs, track your weight, amount of water drank, calories, etc. I also like that you can get rid of things you don't want on it - for example I don't track my calories so i took that tile off my app and don't have it sitting there wasting space. in the settings there is a spot to mark if you are pregnant or breastfeeding - I don't know exactly what that does - my guess is it ups your daily calorie allotment - and maybe takes that into consideration when it tells you how many calories you've burned. I don't do the friends and competitions part of it - but there's a platform to connect with people you know and set little competitions or group goals - honestly the idea of me seeing what everyone else is doing and everyone seeing what I'm doing isn't very appealing, but it could be fun accountability if you set a goal with a friend/familyIMPACT ON YOUR LIFE: Know thyself. Having this won't inherently make you healthier. I got this because I like tracking things and this gave me a way to gamify my activity - I set goals and I can see exactly how close I am to hitting them each day - which is a strong motivation factor for me - at 8PM if I see that I'm still 4000 steps shy of my daily step goal I'm much more likely to suggest we take an after-dinner walk in the evening. I've been drinking more water because I'm keeping track of it. It helped me track my activity level through my pregnancy and is helping me see how getting back in shape afterwards is going, I'm also glad I'll have this archived so when I get pregnant again I can see how I track compared to this pregnancy. If you're like me it will be strong motivation for you. If your highly competitive getting one of these then competing with your friends on it might work, or having an accountability partner who can see your daily activity may help keep you motivated. If none of those things pique your interest this probably isn't a good investment, but it is a well made product.

I bought the FitBit One specifically because I wanted a pedometer that could be clasped somewhere other than my hip. I am an obese female office worker and pedometers in the past have not tracked well, been too visible through my clothes, or easily fallen off.I received my FBO in November 2013 and immediately tested it out around my home and office, areas where previous devices (or manual counting) ensured consistency. To me, it appeared to be quite accurate and I wear it clipped to the middle of my bra, display facing my body. When I change in the evening, it gets clipped to my pajama pants waistband and continues to be accurate and secure.I like being able to set goals in all or few of the various actions that FBO tracks - steps, minutes active, distance, calories burned, etc. I have a goal set for steps and active minutes per day. I do feel that FBO accurately tracks my calorie output -- that is, provided I track any activity that is more than walking (such as weight training or Zumba). I began paying closer attention to calories in and calories burned after having the FBO for 6 months, and my weight loss has fairly consistently lined up with my intake/burn defecit.Another plus: the vibrating timer. I examined my work schedule, and saw that two days a week, I sit at my computer for 4+ hours. I set multiple vibrating timers to remind me to get up - and I don't always listen, but I am way more aware now of how long I stay in one place (it also prompted me to but a sit-stand desk which has helped my posture).While visiting friends with a bi-level home I noticed that the online tracker showed half flights! I loved this because of the hills in our neighborhood being counted as half flights or whole flights.I have an elliptical that the FBO does accurately count steps for. What I don't feel FBO does well when I am on the elliptical is count my active minutes - it frequently does not consider them active. I can't expect the FBO to track my heart rate to know what IS active for my body, though, so I learned after several months that the key is to track my elliptical activity in the app versus as steps. This allowed me to reach active minutes goals and more accurately reflects calories burned.I have only used my FBO to track sleep a few times, maybe a total of 20-30 nights. I know my sleep habits are poor and I didn't need a device to tell me that. This was the one defining factor in comparing to other trackers - the ability to wake me with vibration during a certain depth in my REM sleep cycle. That would be a nice feature, but where the other device had it, it lacked in other areas where the FBO excelled.I love that my FBO syncs automatically when I get home, and also with my MapyMyRun and MyFitnessPal accounts. I don't use either accounts consistently, but I have support networks on both so FBO shares my mileage, active minutes, and weight updates to keep me engaged with my network.In those first few months, I averaged fewer than a depressing 4K steps per day. A work challenge in June really prompted major activity changes for which my daily average has increased to 8K per day. It doesn't sound like a lot to some people, but for someone who spends over 75 minutes commuting and 10+ hours in the office each day, I'm thrilled with the new activity level. I find myself checking FBO during bathroom breaks, and feel motivated to have informal walking meetings, or eat my 10-minute lunch in another building (all connected) just to rack up the steps. I never thought I'd be able to make it work, but somehow it is, and I give a lot of credit to my FitBit One!!**the small rigid plastic piece on the back of my burgundy holder cracked in 2 pieces last week - the second week of August, after 9 months of daily wear. I was only bummed because the exposed metal made it difficult to slide down on and off my bra, so I cut a small piece of duct tape to cover the sharp edges. Still works perfectly, and I don't feel the integrity of the product is compromised or cheap - although I do wish I could buy and glue on just another little cap versus a whole new holder. Oh well, still love this thing!