Fitbit Aria

Fitbit Aria Review: Smart Scale

The Fitbit Aria Smart Scale is a recent addition to my dieting efforts.

At approximately 12.3 x 1.3 x 12.3 inches and weighing in at about 5 pounds, the Fitbit Aria is a necessary component in tracking any diet attempt.

Connecting to the Fitbit App (free smartphone app) via the WiFi in your house, it wirelessly uploads your information seconds after you weigh in.

Not only does it take measurements on weight, but it does body fat percentage and BMI calculations. All viewable and easily trendable via the website or phone app.

For me this seamlessness was indispensable as I hate to have to log anything if I can help it. This device in combination with the Fitbit One Activity Tracker and Fitbit App makes it extremely simple for me to keep it all together with minimal effort. With support for eight users, anyone in the family can use it as well. It’s uncanny how it detects the differences between people with no outside interference.

The only information I have to manually enter is all the food I eat throughout the day, the app has an extremely large database of food calorie values preloaded for easy adding, the amount of water I take in, and any additional exercise such as biking. I really don’t do any additional exercising that can’t be tracked with the Fitbit One.

The app will also give you a target on how many calories you can eat throughout the day in order to lose a predetermined amount of weight over the course of a week. It takes into account the amount of calories taken in and burned throughout the day which is a super valuable tool.

In my first week following the recommendations and logging my stuff I lost six pounds, since then I’ve shamefully fallen off of my diet and gained it back. I am going to start again next week and stick to it. I can’t stress enough how much easier it is having all that statistical data at your finger tips. I highly recommend buying the tools provided by Fitbit.

-NoobCritic