I found this thing to be of limited usefulness…I like the food intake registration part, it makes you really focused on the calory counting… which is good.. the challenge remains the non at home eating though.

I am curious if you know of another, similar system that can track skin, heart, and steps but doesn’t require me to have a monthly subscription?

According to James’ post above, it could be off by as much as +/-300 cals a day. Or if you read Leigh’s post, ~15% inaccurate. If you’re only using a 500 calorie/day deficit, that inaccuracy could all but wipe out your fat loss.

To find out if you’re a thyroid case, just go see your doctor. It’s a simple blood test. In fact, you might be able to order a home test online.

Since you’re quite experienced at tracking your food, the really simple answer is to just drop your calories until the fat loss you want happens.

If I had to do it over again, I’d probably have bought a better pedometer and heart rate monitor. The GWF doesn’t have a heart rate monitor, but it does monitor my sleep, however, what it does measure for sleep isn’t all that accurate. For example, I’ve kept the GWF in my gym bag for the last 3 weeks and when I checked it for the first time this morning, I noticed that on one day last week (I wasn’t wearing it, it was in the gym bag) the GWF registered that I got 11 hours of sleep. I’m not even sure how the device turned on as I thought the metal tabs on the bottom must touch skin (I guess I’m wrong).

I know and have seen that NEAT nearly rules all. I now know that sitting at my desk burns shit for calories (50/hour!!!!). Oh, and the GWF is pretty useless in hot yoga. Swimming, too, of course. So its not just cyclists with the short end of that stick.

Because I am well-trained, endurance does not burn nearly as much as it “should” even for my size. The GWF picks up on that to a small degree – for example it said that I burned just over 2000kcal in a marathon, so that’s less than 70kcal/mile, and of course I was not schlepping along.

With an average deficit of 500+ for a year, I should be about 70lbs by now, so there’s something off.

Am I a thryroid “case”? How would I know? If you have a little guidance I’d love to hear it. I also have a year’s worth of data if you’d like to have at it or just use it for analysis. That includes INTAKE, as well, measured pretty damn accurately (gram scale, etc).

OH….. on the left/right arm thing – I’ve switched it back and forth. When I do, I just change the “handedness” setting to theoretically negate the effects of the move. Other wise you get a crazy dent in your arm without one in the other arm. At least now I have equal dents.