GoBe2 Weight Loss Fitness Band by Healbe. Monitors 8 Key Health parameters: Calorie Intake/Burn/Balance, Hydration, Stress, Sleep, Heart Rate, Activity and Step Pedometer

I've been meaning to write this review for a while now, as I've been using Gobe 2 for more than a year and have evaluated it thoroughly, including comparing it with other popular trackers. I think this device has initially gotten some mixed reviews, which don't do it justice. It is true that if you are looking for a fancy-type smartwatch or fitness tracker you may not get as excited initially with Gobe. BUT if you are looking for a health and wellness tracker that can help you make positive changes in your life and become a healthier person, I really think this is the best device right now on the market! Gobe 2 provides very accurate measures for vitally important health biometrics: Energy balance, water balance, Pulse, Stress, and Night Sleep. The Energy balance feature I feel is one of its kind, no other device out there will do this for you, i.e., automatic calculation if calorie intake and breakdown of nutrients. I used to manually write down calorie intake prior to becoming a Gobe user, and I can tell after years of related practice that it's pretty accurate. I can often observe the quicker metabolic spikes after eating sugary/simple carb foods versus protein or complex carbs, and the breakdown of macros has helped me shift my nutrition to more protein-dense meals. When I exercise in the morning, I can also observe a shift in my metabolism throughout the whole day. A key thing to remember though is that Gobe measures the calories DIGESTED not the ones consumed, and I think this has created some confusion with its reviews. The water balance feature helps to stay hydrated and I've seen it be pretty accurate also when comparing with my own sense of thirst. I used to hate keeping track of the amount of water consumed, but not I get the friendly "nudge" from Gobe when I need to take a sip or two! One key element is that you may need to reset the device after you make any major dietary changes. For example, when I went gluten-free Gobe consistently showed me as underhydrated (which is understandable, since gluten retains water in the gut), so I needed to reset my tracker so it could re-learn my normal hydration levels based on my new diet. The pulse feature is also pretty accurate, maybe a little less sensitive than some other trackers which may be due to the type of approximation that the Gobe algorithm applies, but still pretty accurate when exercising. The stress level feature is phenomenal. Not only it is accurate in terms of correlating of how stressed I actually feel, but also it correlates with levels of potential sleep deprivation due to the changes in cortisol levels sensed by the tracker. So in that sense not only it has helped me identify triggers for my stress but also helped me to really appreciate when I am getting into sleep deprivation cycles that are taking a toll on me, and motivate me to adopt healthier sleeping habits. The night sleep function also accurately tracks sleep duration and rem cycles, and has a very cool feature of the "smart alarm" to wake you up when feeling refreshed! I have seen a lot of improvement in the accuracy of its algorithms in each firmware update (i.e., hydration, step counting, etc.) and it has a truly outstanding customer service team that will out of their way to address your inquiries. Is it a perfect tracker? Of course not, but none of them are. But if you are looking for a tracker that can help you make better decisions about your health and wellness, this is the one! Can't wait to see what Gobe 3 has in store for us!

I have been logging my macronutrients into MyFitnessPal since 2014, then in 2017 I started logging my macro and micro nutrients into Cronometer. Then I learned of Healbe GoBe 2, and I was relieved that such technology was created, and existed to take away the work of logging my calories intake everyday for 4 years. The very existence of Healbe GoBe compelled me to purchase this watch, and put it to the test.I disable my Dietary Energy from MyFitnessPal app and Cronometer app In Apple Health, and enable only my Healbe GoBe 2 to write my Dietary Energy Data into my Apple Health app. Then I crossed tested my calorie intake with Healbe GoBe 2 and Cronometer to see if what I logged In Cronometer and what HealBe GoBe 2 read matched, and the results were amazing. Both the Cronometer calories log count and HealBe GoBe 2 calorie reading amounted within the same calorie range number each day. Certain days I ate within 1500, 1600, and 2000 calories and each day both matched the amount. So it works perfectlyly.However, The Macros, read by HealBe GoBe 2 was interesting to read in HealBe GoBe app because I logged my Protein intake into Cronometer - and Carbs and Fats were within matching range; But from all the protein shakes and meats I eat, which on some occasions amounted to 150 to 200 grams of protein, HealBe GoBe 2 read that my body only received 80 or 110 grams of protein. So it’s interesting to know whether all the protein in food and shakes I’ve ingested really have the amount of Protein it claims on its Nutrition Facts ( after I scan their barcode and log it), or is my body itself processing the protein differently. In a situation like that the best product to scan actual foods before eating are spectrometers food technology like SCIO or TELLSPEC.Nonetheless, HealBe GoBe 2 is a very highly recommended Wellness Wearable product. I wear my HealBe GoBe 2 on my right wrist with my Apple Watch on my left wrist, and I love the combination along with my other health and fitness products - like my Wahoo Ticker X for workout; my Withings Blood Pressure, My Withings Weight Scale, and My Skulpt Body Fat Scanner. All these health gadgets compliments each other in a huge way to graph all your health data into my Apple Health App - to live a cautious healthy lifestyle.Heal GoBe 2 is a product that unlike Apple Watch I can’t and wouldn’t live without. It keep me aware of my calorie intake, especially my calorie intake - that my body carries over into the next day - if I ate late at night before midnight. It keep me aware to drink water when I haven’t been drinking enough. It displays my stress levels when I’m having a calm peaceful day, and accurately shows hours of stress on hours that I was stressed.I also love the information HealBe GoBe 2 offers on my sleep quality, when I’m sleeping below my recommended hours of sleep, I make a precaution decision to sleep earlier. It’s a an AMAZING product. I certainly recommend it to anyone who cares about their health. Apple Watch offers heart rate reading, and standing time only in regards to health information that it’s reading, but when it comes to dietary energy, calorie intake, hydration levels, and sleep quality, Apple Watch has fallen way behind.And as a last note, before purchasing HealBe GoBe 2, I’ve read certain reviews about HealBe GoBe 2 causing skin irritation from its sensor, and it is true, IF you are wearing it extremely tight, it can cause irritation with Extreme Tightness, and to avoid that discomfort, it’s really a matter of tightening it enough - only that your Healbe GoBe 2 can read all the Information it’s reading. But from my experience Extreme Tightness has been the only cause of a few irritation occasion, and in those cases I’ve loosened the tightening pressure, and moved the HealBe GoBe 2 Watch a little above my wrist, or just switched wrist, and afterward it’s all normal and no irritation. It’s just a matter of adjusting to your comfort zone.