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Fitness Trackers
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Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts

Wearable activity monitors can count your steps and track your movements, but they don’t, apparently, help you lose weight. In fact, you might lose more weight without them.

The fascinating finding comes from a study published today in JAMA that found dieting adults who wore activity monitors for 18 months lost significantly fewer pounds over that time than those who did not. The results suggest that activity monitors may not change our behavior in the way we expected, and raise interesting questions about the tangled relationships between exercise, eating, our willpower and our waistlines.

There have been tantalizing hints in a few studies recently that new technologies…

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 Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts

Wearable activity monitors can count your steps and track your movements, but they don’t, apparently, help you lose weight. In fact, you might lose more weight without them.

Best fitness trackers...

Eat, sleep, walk, repeat with these top activity bands.

Wareable

Wareable is the authority on wearable technology. Wareable is your trusted guide to getting the most from your connected self.

Microsoft Band

For people who want to live healthier and achieve more there is Microsoft Band. Reach your health and fitness goals by tracking your heart rate, exercise, calorie burn, and sleep quality, and be productive with email, text, and calendar alerts on your wrist.

Fitbit

Fitbit wirelessly syncs to online tools and apps to keep you motivated. No buttons, wires, or hassle.

Garmin

Vívosmart HR+ is different from our other activity trackers1 — not because it lacks any of their features, but because of what it includes that they don't.

Gear Fit2

Gear Fit2 works with you every kilometer, every heartbeat, every step of the way. It also works with a wide range of smartphones.

LifeTrak

With the push of a button, Zoom HRV continuously measures your heart rate and heart rate variability with extraordinary accuracy and precision. Zoom HRV automatically detects your body’s readiness to train and tells you how hard to push. Zoom HRV tracks every move you make, every calorie you burn, and minute you sleep.

Misfit

Misfit has its origins in wellness, beginning with our initial fitness-based innovations. At our core, we are driven by the will to inspire change and improve lives—a far broader mission than fitness. We consider the entire picture: exercise, sleep, nutrition, and even the environment. Healthy living, sum total.

Moov

The multi-sport wearable coach that talks to you as you work out.

YOO

YOO isn’t just an activity device. It’s a powerful awareness tracker that helps transform us from who we are to who we want to be.

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