Mine gives me about 6000 steps while using the riding mower. It’s the Fitbit One.
@fireandrain - I got my HR Charge for the heart rate, but FYI on your phone/computer fitbit dashboard the heart rate is somehow averaged. If you go back and enter an activity log for a particular time then I will then receive the actual high rate
@cap - LOL
I have the Fitbit One, that clips onto your clothing it seems to measure the impact of steps, I have tested it at times by counting steps and trying different styles of walking & it is accurate for me, though may not always be accurate, I figure it is consistent. I did not want a wrist fitbit both because of the issues mentioned above and I figured it would not always be something I wanted to wear, I don’t even notice the fitbit clipped inside my bra.
I, too, have steps available and find it really encourages me to maximize my trips up and down the stairs @evermom1
I walk on the treadmill while I watch video on my iPad that’s affixed to a shelf that spans the handles of the treadmill. I don’t swing my arms when I do this – they’re usually resting on the shelf or on the handles. I have the Fitbit Flex (bracelet type) so I just take it off my arm and slip it down the front of my bra while I walk. It captures the steps this way. My only problem is remembering to put it back on when I’m done :-S
I love mine!
@patsmom , I’m going to try putting the Fitbit in my bra next shopping spree and at mowing time. I was paranoid about losing it on my ankle so I wore it under long socks. Dropping it in the bra seems way easier. If it works with the Flex maybe it will work with the Charge…
I use the zip. I clip it on my pocket or my waistband. Spent the day at Disney World yesterday and was shocked to see over 24000 steps/ 11.47 miles at the end of the day. I should have looked at my miles before and after riding rides, especially the coasters, but didn’t think about it until I saw my total. We walked a lot but I am not sure it was that much.
Another Fitbit One user here - I clip mine on my bra. I, too, needed a new cap for my clip/holder. When I called customer service to see if I could order this small piece, they offered to send me a new clip/holder.
Today was a good day - 16,500 steps, 7+ miles, 15 floors, 57 active minutes. I wish the steps had taken place at Disney World.
Learn something new today. If you log your activities, Fitbit Charge deducts from the total steps count and number of miles. It can take twice as long to reach your target. I plan to avoid that activity log. It makes a huge difference.
Can you explain that in more detail? I don’t understand…^^^^
That’s not the way it works for me. I log activities all the time; for some (swimming, yoga) there’s no impact on my step count, for others (running) my step count goes up.
That’s what I’m wondering. I’ve only had mine 2 days and today was my first added activity - a spinning class. It didn’t really affect my steps but has increased my active minutes and calories burned etc.
I don’t know if it’s a problem for all Fitbits. I had to Google the problem to see that others have had their steps decrease quite a bit after logging activity on the Charge as well. The solution is to go back and delete the activity and the step count goes back to where it was. On my Charge, logging activity affects the measure for calories burned, time active, steps counted and miles. This might be sporadic. I have only been using Fitbit for three days and today was the first time I’ve noticed. My step count went from 6800 to 4200 after I logged a twenty-minute walk. It’s not a deal breaker for me as I don’t feel compelled to log activity and I question how accurate the log is. It only gives me credit for burning 20 calories after a ten-minutes walk! What the…
I never log a walk, since the Fitbit registers whenever I walk. I just logged swimming for an hour, and my step count stayed the same (as it should) but my calories burned went up 350. When I wear my Fitbit for a run, and then I log a run including the miles ran, it increases both my step count and calories burned. I look at the activity log as a place to record activities that the Fitbit can’t detect, like swimming, biking, yoga. I’ve never logged an activity and seen my step count decline.
When you inputted your walk, did you put down a number for miles? That’s where I could see your situation arising. If Fitbit thinks your 1000 steps = 1 mile = 100 calories, and you log that you only walked a quarter mile, then I could understand the total being revised downward – 1000 steps = .25 miles = 25 calories.
@evermom1, so do you know what your step count was before the walk? And then just after the walk?
No, I don’t put down the miles, just the time started and duration. But you make me wonder if the type of activity triggers the lost steps. I didn’t noticed this yesterday when I logged mowing the lawn. It might have happened yesterday when I logged a walk, but I didn’t noticed because I was already Soooo over my target 
I got the impression that the people at Fitbit has received complaints about this but offers no way to fix the problems. Some smart lady on a Fitbit Facebook group figured it out.
@abasket , it went from 6800 pre logging to 4200 post logging walk. If I hadn’t lost so many steps, I might not have noticed.
I just went running. I wore the Fitbit. Before logging, my steps were 6841 and my milage was 3.81. After logging a 4 mile run, the steps rose to 7,469.
I’m pretty confused why the log would work so differently for evermom than it does for me.
I don’t log activities where I’m walking e.g. biking, treadmill, elliptical, etc. The bike might say i rode 4 miles but that in my mind doesn’t equate to walking 4 miles in terms of counting steps. I feel like it 'counts" each time my left foot reaches the bottom of the pedal. It appears pretty accurate in terms of calorie burn to me. I DO log weight lifting and other activities where I’m burning calories but not walking. I also have to move my Fitbit or log manually the steps when I’m grocery shopping as holding onto the cart seems to log only the steps where I let go of the cart. I also log time and duration for weight lifting.
I find myself parking at the far end of the parking lot when I go shopping just to pick up extra steps on Fitbit. Today will be the first time I get to wear it at work, where I walk a lot. My co-workers and I have always approximated that we must walk at least 5 miles on our jobs; it will be interesting to see if that is true.