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[quote=Anonymous]Another vote for FitBit! And to answer your original question, yes, it helped me lose weight. I lost about 40 pounds over the course of a year and have kept off 35 (need to get back on the wagon).

As the saying goes though you can't outrun your fork -- i.e. you can't compensate for a bad diet/too much food through exercise, particularly walking. Walking is super-healthy and we should all be a lot more active all the time, but for most of us to lose weight we have to revamp our diet paying attention to both quantity and quality. For me, I tracked calories and macros with the LoseIt! app/website. It syncs to FitBit, so I would get credit for steps taken/exercise done which was nice as a cushion of extra calories, but I had to be pretty strict about what I ate (and will need to get strict again to get back down to where I want to be).

Diet-wise, I went pretty low-carb eventually transitioning to paleo. That helped a lot in terms of being able to cut calories but not be hungry (fat and protein are much more satiating than carbs).

Also I started working out with kettlebells, and a running training program. FitBit works great for latter but you have to add other types of exercise manually and it really is only about the tracking. Even on days when I'm not working out I still am religious about my FitBit use though![/quote]

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