Why your fitness tracker may not help you lose more weight

lose weight and track your progress. however as 47 abc’s julian sadur reports – a new study proves you may be better without one. track fitness trackers – like fitbit -are growing in popularity – for those trying to shed a few pounds – but do they actually help you achieve that goal? in wicomico county and worcester county a whopping 73 percent of adults are overweight – according to a 2014 study by the c-d-c. so we sat down with director of prevention services for the worcester county health department – kat gunby – to ask her – does the trend of more fitness trackers mean more people are losing more weight? they’ve become very popular, which is good because it means that the public seems to be interested in the information they’re getting from it, but we haven’t seen obviously with the statistics that that’s having an impact on activity levels or on healthy eating or other lifestyle factors track a study reased by the american medical association backs up those findings. they took two groups of obese adults – one with fitness trackers – and one without gave them a workout routine and diet plan – and found after two years – the one withithout the fitness trackers actually lost more weight. j-d cherry – owner of one more rep in salisbury has his own theories on why. when you don’t have one on you tend to actually push yourself harder cause you’re not as sure exactly what you’re doing, your data is not on there, so you actually push yourself a little bit more because you’re actually thinking that you’re not doing enough track the big sticker though cherry says – although a fitness tracker does track your workouts — lifting weights and cardio is only half the battle. without a healthy diet – getting to your target weigh won’t be a reality. in the end – the consensus from the health department – the data – and personal trainers is – if a fitness trackers motivates you to get active – great – but it won’t be the sole reason you drop those last few pounds. julian sadur 47 abc the worcester county health department offers a lifestyle balance program for those trying to lose weight – that provides group sessions – dieting advice and more. for more information on that – you can find that on our website 47 abc dot com. delaware governor jack markell is