Wearable Activity Monitors May Not Help People Lose Weight, Study Suggests Fitness trackers may even be working against you, according to the results of a new study

reports that the participants “using wearables still lost some weight, but significantly less than the people who weren’t using them.” Participants “in the standard weight loss group lost 13 pounds on average, whereas the people in the wearables group lost 7.7 pounds on average.” http://time.com/4501018/wearable-weight-loss/