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Malcolm Lewis: Wanna eat less and move more? Read on...

The tiny Fitbit is basically a pedometer on steroids. It measures your daily steps and calculates your daily calories burned. There's a nice website that displays the activity data for you and allows you to keep a food diary so you can also track calories burned. As anyone with an ounce of sense knows, weight control boils down to balancing calories in versus calories out. Here's my public page as an example of some of the info tracked on the website: http://www.fitbit.com/user/....

There's also a small display on the tracker itself and a WiFi base station that automatically updates tracker data anytime you're close to your computer.

I don't get too pedantic about using the food diary, for example I'll often guestimate calories for a home-cooked meal, but it's surprising how many of the foods you eat can be found in the food database or online in other food databases.

Overall, I've found that this gadget definitely gets me off my feet more during the day, and the food diary is making me think twice about that third margarita on an evening.

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