Any recommendations? Any experience? My wife is considering one of these as a gift request to help shed maternal weight.

If you want a heartrate monitor, make sure you double check that what you're ordering has one. I don't think the fitbit, jawbone, or nike ones do.

I was looking at these today. I think the only one that monitors heart rate is called Pulse.

I am eying the Nike one. It has Bluetooth so I won't have to take it off to transfer the data. I actually think most all of them have Bluetooth now.

Anybody have pros/cons for the ones you have experienced?

I've been wearing a fitbit for about 5 days. It provides interesting data about my activity level, but I'm not sure how accurate it is compared to a heartrate monitor. It doesn't measure my gym workout as very active; whereas, it measures a run as very active. I find burpees, box jumps, etc. much more strenuous than a run.

if you do something more strenuous you need to tell it you did it. It can't tell if you are doing burpees just by sitting on your waist.

It's on my wrist. If I have to tell it that I did something, I might as well just be logging my activity in My Fitness Pal or some other app. That's why I'm suggesting a heart rate monitor might be more accurate.

I like the thing. I have certainly noticed how lethargic my weekend was compared to my workday.

I knew I was a restless sleeper, and this has verified that fact. I don't know what to do about it, though.

has anyone tried a polar hr monitor?

Polar makes a great HR monitor, but if you want more than that, ie. running, I'd go with a Garmin.

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It's on my wrist. If I have to tell it that I did something, I might as well just be logging my activity in My Fitness Pal or some other app.

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Not sure what to tell you then. Return it if you aren't happy with it, but it's a pedometer that syncs with your phone, not a HRM. You can't expect it to be able to tell if you are doing something that isn't run/walk oriented without first tipping it off that you are doing such a thing.