Fit Advantage Armband On Body Wellness Monitor

I've had this for three months now. I wanted to have it a while to get a good assessment before reviewing the item.Comfort-It takes a while to get used to the bodymediafit armband on your arm. After a week I was comfortable wearing it except while in the shower or washing my armband.-It only comes with one armband, and after working out that one armband is probably going to gross you out. Since it's Velcro, every time you wash it it gets a little nastier looking. Plus you have to take it off to wash. A replacement armband is 15$ with shipping.Accuracy-I find it to be incredibly active when I am sedentary, asleep, sitting, and walking. The sensors monitor temperature, movement, movement speed, and skin humidity. I think because I'm not that sweaty of a person it will sometimes have my mets looking less than they were. Example- I was on the treadmill busting my behind, able to talk but completely unwilling to as I was doing 80% of my max heartrate. The bodymediafit recorded it as moderate activity, calories burned 536. My heartrate monitor recorded it as 560 calories. So fairly accurate, though it sucks to have your hard earned work called "moderate activity" instead of the "intense" it deserves. You can change the Met level that is the distinction between the two, but I still think I was at least pushing a 7.-The sleep efficiency stuff I find pretty damned accurate. I sleep regularly, though, fidgeting while awake and being completely still while sleeping. I don't really care much for when I was sick and it congratulated me on being asleep for 14 hours. Felt more like a taunt than anything else, but I know I'm nitpicking.ACCOUNTABILITY-This is really where the product stands out. I know now that on a lazy day I sleep nine hours, sit around and do nothing for four hours, putt around my house, nap, get up, put around and then go to bed. I know that cleaning up gives me such a huge spike in calories burned that I just love to clean now. I even occasionally race to my car from the grocery store and quickly race the cart back either hoping for those two minutes of moderate activity. I know that 20 minutes of working out doesn't really give me that many benefits and I may as well stick around for at least 30 minutes.. if I can do that, why not stick around for 45 or an hour?-You can change the schedule for weigh ins, you can also weigh in at will whenever you'd like. I like the option. You can even select that it not remind you to weigh in at all. Convenient.Bodymedia's Website-If the product has a failing point, it's in the limited catalog of foods. Unlike a lot of other sites, users cannot see the food entries submitted by other users so you end up spending a lot of time entering in products. It's so tedious that I just go to myfitnesspal, enter in all my food and then record my calories and daily macros as one custom meal on the body media site. Sure, it's weird seeing a 1500 calorie breakfast, but it's a lot more convenient than adding every amy's frozen meal individually. There's no option to compose a meal, either, so I can't craft a lasagna plate and then make servings without a calculator. Again, much easier to use myfitnesspal.-The reports are great. I love changing the sliders to see how much activity and calorie burns I have in a certain time. That said, I do wish there were more report options. I'd love a macronutrient report. That said, I can look at that in another program. They really should seek to synchronize with another, better organized calorie counting site.-I'm not sure the service is worth the 6.95 a month, but the product is worth paying it, so I continue to.Notes!-When I purchased it, I also purchased it with the display. I don't think anyone needs the display. It doesn't stay synced unless very close to the armband, doesn't clip onto anything but the thinnest material. It's waterproof, but the armband isn't (weird). It also beeps everytime you press a button and there is no option to turn it off. I'd much rather just plug into my PC once a day while in the shower than get a VERY limited amount of information from the display.-Price points- I've seen this as low as 107 and as high as 179.-Wear it on your left arm.-I definitely think this product is worth it for anyone who needs a kick in the butt to stay active. It works well for people who live partially sedentary lives, or work in an office for most of their week. I think for people who stay active a lot more a heartrate monitor may be more to their tastes. I own both, because I am kind of both people. Sometimes terribly active and wanting details on my workouts, knowing exactly how hard my heart is working... and sometimes just wanting to know how badly sitting on my butt is hurting my body.

I bought a BodyMedia Fit armband last year and used it for approximately 4 months. At first I thought it was great, until I realized that its main function, tracking how many calories you burn and the intensity of your workouts, really doesn't work all that great.Example 1: Went on a very strenuous 8 hour hike through rocky terrain. I was sweating the entire time and at the end, I could barely climb back into the school van. Being a 260 pound woman who went on an 8 hour hike, you would think this thing would tell me that I burned a lot of calories that day. It's reading: I burned 200 calories for the entire hike and only stayed in the "mild intensity zone." Say what??Example 2: It does not correctly track your calories burned if you are on a bike or eliptical. Some people say to put it on your leg, but that makes it overcalculate the number of calories you burn.Example 3: The amount of calories the online tracker tells you to eat are way beyond what you should be eating for weight loss. It told me that I should be eating 3,000 calories per day at my height (5'6) and weight. I figured they knew best and ate this way for the 4 months I used it, exercised daily, and *gained* 7 pounds. And it was not muscle.My other complaint: good luck getting this company to stop billing you once you cancel your subscription. Their customer service is OK, but not the greatest. I cancelled my subscription, then was charged for that month. Talked to the rep and they said they would refund it. Great. Two days after I got the first refund there was another charge for the same month on my bank statement. Contact them again: another refund. Told them to erase my bank card number from their files. Two days later: yep, you got it...another charge for that same month. They told me it was a "glitch." Went through this six times, had to pay to get a new bank card, lost money in overdraft fees, etc. Not cool.Bottom line: faulty product that is not as accurate as you'd think it should be and their online service is horrid. If you still want to buy it, I'd recommend buying it with the wrist monitor, so you can see how many calories you burned that day without subscribing to the service.