re: Anyone got a FitBit?

I've had a Surge since April. Overall, I like it.

My boss had gotten the Charge HR and I was interested, but I was actively avoiding the smart watch thing because I felt like the battery life on them was terrible. Plus, I don't need to be able to text and talk and all that nonsense from a watch. I wore a chest strap to the gym every day and that was getting old so I started reading reviews on them. The general feeling I got about them was that they were good as long as you slowly built up your heart rate and sustained for a while, but the people that did interval training weren't super impressed with it's ability to adjust to rapid peaks and valleys in heart rate.

I ended up mentioning it to my wife and she got one for my birthday. I didn't think I would like it but I decided to give it a shot and I was pretty happy with it after about a week. The app syncs with LoseIt! where I track my calories and it usually stays alive for 3 or 4 days at a time. If you run a lot, you'd probably use the GPS though, which drains the battery pretty fast. If you swim, don't get this one. It's "sweat proof" but not water proof. With a new baby, the silent alarm in the morning to get up for my workouts was almost worth it in itself.