Comments on: Guest Blog: Fitbit: Virtual Badges Influence Real Behavior

By: Jess Miller

Jess Miller — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:03:34 +0000

cool post

By: Karin

Karin — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:34:48 +0000

I’d like to know what all the badges are as well. I love the badges from Foursquare so it’d be fun if they were like that…. Like you logged that you swam 5 miles! That’d be fun. Where is the list of badges?? I’d love that.

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:05:15 +0000

The badges have certainly changed my behavior. I check my stats at around 10PM and look to see whether there are any reachable badges. I take a walk in the moonlight, hit the treadmill, or “do laps” on the stairs to reach some badge.

Seeing the numbers really makes you think about what you are doing at every moment. I find myself cheerfully walking across the room or to the other side of the house to get something, where a few months ago I would have made a mental note to get it when I next had to get up for something else. The same with eating: if I keep track of the things I eat I consider WHETHER to eat them. I’m not (yet) looking for badges for weight-loss, but I expect that some will come naturally, and when they do, I will probably pursue more of them.

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:51:42 +0000

YES I am a fitbit badge whore! There I said it! I am all about the badges!

By: kyashiis

kyashiis — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 07:14:07 +0000

The badges motivate me somewhat, but I like that I can set personal goals. If I don’t have my personal goal of 8,00 steps and 30 flights of stairs by 10 pm, I become very busy walking around the kitchen table and up and down the stairs until I get my goals done.

I am planning to up my goals little by little until I can reach 50 flights of stairs daily (you all have inspired me) and 15,000 steps a day.

I think I might order one of the scales, too.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:09:47 +0000

I drive a taxi for a living. 12 hour shift, sitting in a car, not much exercise. I live in a high rise apartment, 7th floor. Instead of taking the elevator, I take the stairs. I’ve also watched my numbers on my fitbit, saw I was close to 50 floors, climbed another couple flights to hit the 50 flights mark.
I also bought the aria scale. I got my wife her fitbit and we’ve both been going to walks together, hitting the treadmills. These “geek toys” have gotten both my wife & I off our butts and moving. She’s lost 8 pounds in 2 weeks, I’ve lost 8 in 3 weeks all due to these devices. The whole reason I hit the treadmill or walk every day is so I can hit those goals daily. The fitbit really keeps us motivated.

By: Heidi De Wolf

Heidi De Wolf — Mon, 28 May 2012 06:24:12 +0000

I am really impressed with Fitbit’s functionality and its ease of download. And then there are the scales that monitors your BF% – amazing! I am wondering though whether there are any plans to include a heart rate monitor into the package?

By: Cara Meyers

Cara Meyers — Thu, 10 May 2012 03:57:16 +0000

I had no idea that there were additional badges besides the ones listed on the dashboard! I think I may be joining you in climbing 2 extra flights of stairs for every one chore! Just the other day I went up 21 flights of stairs and thought, “Wouldn’t it be great if they had a badge for 25 flights? I’d race up and down the stairs 4 times just to get to that badge!” Now you have me obsessed with finding out more about the FitBit badges!

By: bunny clews

bunny clews — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:28:03 +0000

A confirmed not dieter, no exerciser, my doctor scared the daylights out of my recently and his nutrionist told me about the FitBit tracker. Desperate I ordered one and began walking daily. I loved it. I looked forward to the download every night. And then, one day the unthinkable happened. I didn’t put it on as I had to run a load of stuff up the hill in my golf cart and I didn’t want to get credit for stairs I hadn’t climbed, or hills I didn’t walk. Now, I live on a horse ranch so you would think I would get plenty of exercise but somehow I lost my Tracker. I was distraught and retraced my steps for hours, then days. My son said he thought he saw “something” in the dirt but he couldn’t remember exactly where. Finally, after three weeks, I ordered a new one. I bought the plum one this time although I felt a little disloyal to the blue one who even knew my name!!! The replacement arrived and it was a couple of days before I “got it right” with the computer. I’ve been wearing it for several days and today, talking with my son who was standing outside his tack room the unbelievable happened: he looked down in the dirt and picked up old blue!!! It has been over a month, it has rained at least three times and there it was, in the dirt and still had a charge. I was so happy to see my old friend, and happier when I could read my name. Now, how to I return the program to the old tracker????? I thought of the old Timex ads “takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’. Dang, am I happy to have it back.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:42:16 +0000

I would love to see content pushed to you as a suggestion like friends in my area that are in the same activity level as i (for example similar weight or weight goals) that we might connect with one another or workout together etc…

Love the bit so far.

Bruce