Husband up to no good? Caught out by fitbit

[Imnotbilly]

Morning. My dh wore my fitbit last night to walk the dog, so he had something to tell the time by. He was out for an hour.

When he got back I looked at the stats on my phone and it had tracked a 15 minute walk and about 3-4k steps. I asked him about it and he couldn't explain the discrepancy, except that maybe it didn't pick up his steps because he was holding the lead.

This morning I took the dog out and my fitbit tracked a 29 minute walk and just over 3k steps. I held the lead on my fitbit hand.

I don't know what to think, so confused. Does the fitbit lie? AIBU to think dh is the one who's lying?

Christ, if this were the other way around ("my husband checks up on my fitbit to make sure that I am actually walking and gets suspicious and difficult if it doesn't exactly match what he expects") there would be a deafening chorus of "controlling! LTB!"

If you're checking up on your partner's phone to make sure you have 24x7 knowledge of their location (as, indeed, is being recounted on a very sad thread elsewhere) then one or both of (a) you're a paranoid arse and/or (b) your relationship is fucked is true. Either way, it's over.

Maybe he sat down on a bench and just enjoyed the outdoors...perhaps?

Did you watch the to series undercover? Turned out the husband was an undercover cop spying in his wife and meeting his handler.

You have to set your weight on them don't you? You do on the iPhone. If you didn't do that then it would skew results as its expecting someone smaller/larger.

Either way I'd think he had sat on a park bench and let the dog run around!

If it's a Fitbit doesn't it record the periods of standing still, or is it just showing a constant very slow walk?

Perhaps he walked to an open space, let the dog off the lead and sat down while the dog ran around? The fitbit would then record the walk to and from his sitting down place, and the rest of the time, he was sitting down.

Or met another dog walker and stood chatting?

Still wondering why he didn't take his mobile phone with him. What if, for example, he fell over and injured himself?

Unless your dog is Lassie of course ("What's that you're trying to tell me Lassie? DP has fallen down a mineshaft?!")

Neckband, I've already posted twice (once in original op and again to correct someone who obviously can't read a whole post) that it was MY fitbit. I wasn't checking his phone, I wasn't checking up on him at all, I was checking the stats, which I always do.

Also, I've already replied that these explanations are feasible and I've dropped the subject from my mind. Yes,I jumped to conclusions, but no harm done.

Brisk walking is 4-5mph so branofthemist must an unbelievably quick walker!

I never said I did 6-8k, I based it on the Op, which I then said I had incorrectly read. I thought he had been gone 15 minutes, not that it recorded only 15 minutes.

Anyway the part that logs how long you are walking for only keeps logging if you are constantly moving the arm it's on. So if it was stationary for a bit it wouldn't have recorded the whole walk. It only records after 10 mins of constant movement.

The fact that you are worried he is up to something is concerning, the fact that you went and tested the theory suggest you are either controlling or there is other stuff you aren't saying.

Even Fitbit don't day their monitors are 100% its website state it can pick up steps while driving due to arm movement.

His phone was completely out of battery so he couldn’t take that and he doesn't have a watch.

I only do about 1000 steps in 10 minutes. I'm feeling quite inadequate.

Ah so now you'd like us to shut up eh OP?

Because that's just how AIBU works!

Fitbits have been proved to be inaccurate. Seems a weird situation altogether.

He would of clocked up more steps for vigorous shagging so yabu.

It would take a seriously weird husband to borrow his wife's Fitbit in order to get up to no good.

I think he put the Fitbit on the dog.

Why did he need to know the time?

Because his mistress/fence/drug dealer doesn't have a watch?

Maybe he's into psychological torture. He knew being out for an hour but only recording 15 minutes activity on his dw's Fitbit would freak her out.

*Christ, if this were the other way around ("my husband checks up on my fitbit to make sure that I am actually walking and gets suspicious and difficult if it doesn't exactly match what he expects") there would be a deafening chorus of "controlling! LTB!"

If you're checking up on your partner's phone to make sure you have 24x7 knowledge of their location (as, indeed, is being recounted on a very sad thread elsewhere) then one or both of (a) you're a paranoid arse and/or (b) your relationship is fucked is true. Either way, it's over.*

This. I wouldn't have even bothered to check it and if I did I would have just jokingly called him a lazy arse.... Mines a watch fitbit and it doesn't ever track the time spent doing anything right and the steps are mostly off as well. If I have anything in my hand that it's on it thinks I've stood still.

Jesus wept. Seriously?

Sorry if somebody else has said this but if he was up to no good then why would he have worn it and why would he look through the stats with you!

I think you may be being slightly paranoid to be honest. Has he been up to no good before to make you feel like this?

Has he been up to no good before to make you feel like this?

Indeed. I think yours was a very unusual conclusion to jump to unless your OH had form.

I don't have a fitbit but my friend does she often has competition with friends to see who can log the most steps a day and is always freaking out cause the fitbit hasn't recorded properly or has cleared all data etc hence the reason iv never bought one.