Comments on: Bodybugg http://www.girl-heroes.com/2009/07/15/bodybugg/ An (almost) Sane Girl's Quest For Insane Health Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:33:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: jennincat http://www.girl-heroes.com/2009/07/15/bodybugg/comment-page-1/#comment-3981 jennincat Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:25:50 +0000 http://www.girl-heroes.com/?p=1398#comment-3981 Joni - WOW!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH for taking the time to write this EXTREMELY information, thoughtful and telling post. Your experience sounds incredible!!!! Ahhhhh...now I really want one! :-D So interested that you needed to eat more to lose weight and that eating less was actually hurting your progress. LUCKY DUCK!!!!! Congratulations to you and (your sister in law)!!! I'm off to check out the fitbit right now!!! THANK YOU again!!!!! Hugs! Joni – WOW!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH for taking the time to write this EXTREMELY information, thoughtful and telling post. Your experience sounds incredible!!!! Ahhhhh…now I really want one! :-D So interested that you needed to eat more to lose weight and that eating less was actually hurting your progress. LUCKY DUCK!!!!!

Congratulations to you and (your sister in law)!!!

I’m off to check out the fitbit right now!!!

THANK YOU again!!!!!

Hugs!

]]> By: Joni Mercer http://www.girl-heroes.com/2009/07/15/bodybugg/comment-page-1/#comment-3958 Joni Mercer Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:50:55 +0000 http://www.girl-heroes.com/?p=1398#comment-3958 I am an owner of the bodybugg- and I have to say- I paid full price - 350$ (including the display) and I have NO regrets! What turned me on to it to begin with was my sister in law lost over 300 lbs- and has kept it off for 3 years now! Her transformation was enough for me! I also was following many diet fads- cutting cals to 1200 and working out like crazy and NOTHING- I'd get frustrated and binge because I felt like I was getting no where fast! so I get the bugg- and I put it on- and it tells me I burn like 2600-3000 cals a day! I am 5'3 and at the time I weighed 150 lbs! HMMM... I wore it for a month and sent it back- there MUST be something wrong with it! there is NO way I am burning that many cals! (My sister in law burns 1800 on a rest day- while I burn 2400 on a rest day??) so I get a new bugg- and guess what ?? same burn!!!??? (I have burned over 3000 cals 7 times so far! amazing!!!) the bugg takes out all the guess work- I wasnt able to lose weight cutting my cals back - in fact one year later I am eating 1800-2100 cals (depending on my burn) and I am losing weight! weird! is it accurate? I dont know- but try this on for size: when I follow the bugg's plan - I LOSE WEIGHT... when I decide to try what "suzy q" down the street is doing (ie: cutting cals and working out like crazy - YES I have actually STOPPED following the bugg's plan and tried this SO many times- dont ask me why I do this over and over again!) when I eat more- I burn more cals easier too!!! when I cut back I have a harder time burning cals at rest!! more then anything I like the bugg- it gives me something to obsess about! its FUN! I wear it to church even- with a dress- with a tank top- whatever- I love it! I dont care what people think either! I love my bugg and I tell everyone I meet I have one and how it works for me! I heard about another gadget called the "fitbit" - you should check that out. A couple of ladies from sp who have the bodybugg got a fitbit and BOTH ended up returning the bodybugg- its only 99$ and they read pretty much the same amount of cals- !! I also there is NO monthly fee!!! (by the way- 80$ broken up into 12 months is like NOTHING!! and I love the site- I love the food log- I love the graphs! I enjoy it!! I think you would too!!) ONE LAST THING: there is a lady on SP who rents out bb's!! her name is Bodybugger- check her out- maybe you could rent one for 2-3 weeks and get an idea of what your burning???? Looking forward to seeing what you end up doing!!! either way- your doing GREAT and I love your blogs!! Joni I am an owner of the bodybugg- and I have to say- I paid full price – 350$ (including the display) and I have NO regrets! What turned me on to it to begin with was my sister in law lost over 300 lbs- and has kept it off for 3 years now! Her transformation was enough for me! I also was following many diet fads- cutting cals to 1200 and working out like crazy and NOTHING- I’d get frustrated and binge because I felt like I was getting no where fast!

so I get the bugg- and I put it on- and it tells me I burn like 2600-3000 cals a day! I am 5′3 and at the time I weighed 150 lbs! HMMM… I wore it for a month and sent it back- there MUST be something wrong with it! there is NO way I am burning that many cals! (My sister in law burns 1800 on a rest day- while I burn 2400 on a rest day??) so I get a new bugg- and guess what ?? same burn!!!??? (I have burned over 3000 cals 7 times so far! amazing!!!)

the bugg takes out all the guess work- I wasnt able to lose weight cutting my cals back – in fact one year later I am eating 1800-2100 cals (depending on my burn) and I am losing weight! weird!

is it accurate? I dont know- but try this on for size: when I follow the bugg’s plan – I LOSE WEIGHT… when I decide to try what “suzy q” down the street is doing (ie: cutting cals and working out like crazy – YES I have actually STOPPED following the bugg’s plan and tried this SO many times- dont ask me why I do this over and over again!) when I eat more- I burn more cals easier too!!! when I cut back I have a harder time burning cals at rest!!

more then anything I like the bugg- it gives me something to obsess about! its FUN! I wear it to church even- with a dress- with a tank top- whatever- I love it! I dont care what people think either! I love my bugg and I tell everyone I meet I have one and how it works for me!

I heard about another gadget called the “fitbit” – you should check that out. A couple of ladies from sp who have the bodybugg got a fitbit and BOTH ended up returning the bodybugg- its only 99$ and they read pretty much the same amount of cals- !! I also there is NO monthly fee!!!

(by the way- 80$ broken up into 12 months is like NOTHING!! and I love the site- I love the food log- I love the graphs! I enjoy it!! I think you would too!!)

ONE LAST THING: there is a lady on SP who rents out bb’s!! her name is Bodybugger- check her out- maybe you could rent one for 2-3 weeks and get an idea of what your burning????

Looking forward to seeing what you end up doing!!! either way- your doing GREAT and I love your blogs!!

Joni

]]> By: jennincat http://www.girl-heroes.com/2009/07/15/bodybugg/comment-page-1/#comment-3913 jennincat Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:57:27 +0000 http://www.girl-heroes.com/?p=1398#comment-3913 Hi Jazzy! Great I thought I was over this obsession and now I want one again! ;-) Just teasing, yeah the subscription fee has been holding me back. I just think it would be really fun/interesting to know how many calories I was burning through out the day. Maybe it would motivated me to quit daydreaming and get off the couch! Ha!!! Thanks for stopping by. If I decide I'm in the market for a used Bodybugg I'll letcha know! Thanks for commenting. Hugs or hive five. Whichever you prefer! Hi Jazzy! Great I thought I was over this obsession and now I want one again! ;-) Just teasing, yeah the subscription fee has been holding me back. I just think it would be really fun/interesting to know how many calories I was burning through out the day. Maybe it would motivated me to quit daydreaming and get off the couch! Ha!!! Thanks for stopping by. If I decide I’m in the market for a used Bodybugg I’ll letcha know!

Thanks for commenting. Hugs or hive five. Whichever you prefer!

]]> By: Jazzy http://www.girl-heroes.com/2009/07/15/bodybugg/comment-page-1/#comment-3903 Jazzy Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:32:40 +0000 http://www.girl-heroes.com/?p=1398#comment-3903 I currently own (but do not use) a bodybugg. i found the subscription fee to be a little 'much' to tack on to the overall cost of the entire unit: watch/band. i used it while preparing for a figure competition last year and was very interested in knowing how many cals i was burning throughout the day. it works well in my opinion... i just didn't want to pay that fee every month! p.s. - i'd sell you mine if you were really interested. it's just collecting dust! LOL I currently own (but do not use) a bodybugg. i found the subscription fee to be a little ‘much’ to tack on to the overall cost of the entire unit: watch/band. i used it while preparing for a figure competition last year and was very interested in knowing how many cals i was burning throughout the day. it works well in my opinion… i just didn’t want to pay that fee every month!

p.s. – i’d sell you mine if you were really interested. it’s just collecting dust! LOL

]]> By: jennincat http://www.girl-heroes.com/2009/07/15/bodybugg/comment-page-1/#comment-1167 jennincat Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:10:34 +0000 http://www.girl-heroes.com/?p=1398#comment-1167 Hi Josh. Thanks for commenting. I see you work for Bodybugg. That doens't annoy me at all! :) I admire companies who recognize bloggers and social networking as a big part of their potential business and then use their resources to interact with those on the internet. Wise marketing strategy indeed. I'm still thinking about getting a bodybugg...it's just the matter of having the cash to pay for one. But if Bodybugg wants to give me one I promise to mention it regularly in my blog. ;) Hi Josh. Thanks for commenting. I see you work for Bodybugg. That doens’t annoy me at all! :) I admire companies who recognize bloggers and social networking as a big part of their potential business and then use their resources to interact with those on the internet. Wise marketing strategy indeed. I’m still thinking about getting a bodybugg…it’s just the matter of having the cash to pay for one. But if Bodybugg wants to give me one I promise to mention it regularly in my blog. ;)

]]> By: Josh http://www.girl-heroes.com/2009/07/15/bodybugg/comment-page-1/#comment-1166 Josh Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:43:04 +0000 http://www.girl-heroes.com/?p=1398#comment-1166 The Bodybugg does detect motion using the sensors and calculates it against the gravity and motion to measure the true level of physical exertion. It also checks the amount of heat dissipated by the body with the Heat Flux sensor, the GSR sensor measures the conductivity of the skin to see how much current can pass between 2 points. Then of course there is the skin temperature. The difference between 10 and 200 pounds is detected in all of these sensors because the heat/conductivity and motion is different. Even the HIIT sessions are affected by this. When you get the bodybugg and upload the data to the website, you get all kinds of graphs and images to see how much and when you burned calories. So you can see during 1 minute you may have burned 12 calories and then the very next minute 8 calories. The other day I helped a guy push his car into a gas station, I wasn't active before that sitting idle at about 2.3 calories a minute, but then I see this spike for about 4 minutes where I went up to 10 calories while I was helping the guy. But when I'm pushing the grocery cart it's not doing anything. So yes it can tell the difference, pushing a cart my muscles are not getting hot, i'm not sweating, I'm not radiating heat. I would also suggest you buy a bodybugg new. There are different models and you always want the latest. Another issue is the bodybugg program is $80, so if you buy a used one on ebay for $120 then you still have to pay $80 to use the program and actually view your results. So a used $120 bodybugg from ebay will cost you the same as just buying a new one for $199. You can walk into a 24 hour fitness today and get it and be going by tomorrow. The Bodybugg does detect motion using the sensors and calculates it against the gravity and motion to measure the true level of physical exertion. It also checks the amount of heat dissipated by the body with the Heat Flux sensor, the GSR sensor measures the conductivity of the skin to see how much current can pass between 2 points. Then of course there is the skin temperature.

The difference between 10 and 200 pounds is detected in all of these sensors because the heat/conductivity and motion is different. Even the HIIT sessions are affected by this. When you get the bodybugg and upload the data to the website, you get all kinds of graphs and images to see how much and when you burned calories. So you can see during 1 minute you may have burned 12 calories and then the very next minute 8 calories. The other day I helped a guy push his car into a gas station, I wasn’t active before that sitting idle at about 2.3 calories a minute, but then I see this spike for about 4 minutes where I went up to 10 calories while I was helping the guy. But when I’m pushing the grocery cart it’s not doing anything. So yes it can tell the difference, pushing a cart my muscles are not getting hot, i’m not sweating, I’m not radiating heat.

I would also suggest you buy a bodybugg new. There are different models and you always want the latest. Another issue is the bodybugg program is $80, so if you buy a used one on ebay for $120 then you still have to pay $80 to use the program and actually view your results. So a used $120 bodybugg from ebay will cost you the same as just buying a new one for $199. You can walk into a 24 hour fitness today and get it and be going by tomorrow.

]]> By: Lola http://www.girl-heroes.com/2009/07/15/bodybugg/comment-page-1/#comment-1070 Lola Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:15:00 +0000 http://www.girl-heroes.com/?p=1398#comment-1070 Found my way here from Sparkpeople:) I have a Bodybugg but I stopped using it. I loved seeing the numbers but I didn't love how big and visible it was. I didn't wanna walk around work in a t-shirt and have that thing stuck on my arm and having people asking me a million times what it was. Now, I use only my Polar F6 when I work out. The Bodybugg is a really cool took, but mine just lies there and gathers dust these days;) Found my way here from Sparkpeople:)
I have a Bodybugg but I stopped using it. I loved seeing the numbers but I didn’t love how big and visible it was. I didn’t wanna walk around work in a t-shirt and have that thing stuck on my arm and having people asking me a million times what it was. Now, I use only my Polar F6 when I work out.
The Bodybugg is a really cool took, but mine just lies there and gathers dust these days;)

]]> By: SUSAN http://www.girl-heroes.com/2009/07/15/bodybugg/comment-page-1/#comment-1057 SUSAN Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:04:24 +0000 http://www.girl-heroes.com/?p=1398#comment-1057 I don't know if you want this, but if price is an option as the above blog post seems to indicate, then why not buy one used off ebay? you can easily get one under $100 on there, even one of the newer models...just a thought..i am on tracker by the way and ended up on your blog after reading your posts about the sugar addiction, I am still trying to figure out if I really have one or if I can control it..hmm that probably means I can't huh? I don’t know if you want this, but if price is an option as the above blog post seems to indicate, then why not buy one used off ebay? you can easily get one under $100 on there, even one of the newer models…just a thought..i am on tracker by the way and ended up on your blog after reading your posts about the sugar addiction, I am still trying to figure out if I really have one or if I can control it..hmm that probably means I can’t huh?

]]> By: jennincat http://www.girl-heroes.com/2009/07/15/bodybugg/comment-page-1/#comment-1053 jennincat Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:42:06 +0000 http://www.girl-heroes.com/?p=1398#comment-1053 SkinnyInMyHead - Thanks for the info and sharing your experience. I'm still obsessing. Thanks for stopping by too! SkinnyInMyHead – Thanks for the info and sharing your experience. I’m still obsessing. Thanks for stopping by too!

]]> By: SkinnyInMyHead http://www.girl-heroes.com/2009/07/15/bodybugg/comment-page-1/#comment-1048 SkinnyInMyHead Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:06:21 +0000 http://www.girl-heroes.com/?p=1398#comment-1048 Not to add to your obsession.. buttttt.. The Body Bugg is made by BodyMedia and given to 24 hour fitness to market. However, you can buy directly from the manufacturer under the name "GoWearFit".. you can get the armband for $179 on Amazon.com.. the wrist receptor is extra but I had mine for six months before I got the wristband.. you just don't have the instant gratification of being able to glance down at your watch... I am NOT anywhere near where you are - but for me, it was like confronting the brutal truth that I AM NOT MOVING ENOUGH. No denial. No excuses. It's there in black and white. (Which is probably why I put it in my drawer for many months until taking it back out 8 weeks ago.)... the "catch" with either the body bugg or gowearfit is that you must SUBSCRIBE to the service... I compared the two every which way possible and landed on gowearfit. If you still have questions call BodyMedia and talk to them. They gave me a great comparison between the two - and they don't care which one you buy since they are both essentially making money for them.. GOOD LUCK.. and thanks for the inspiration to chose a goal, remain focused and DO IT! Not to add to your obsession.. buttttt.. The Body Bugg is made by BodyMedia and given to 24 hour fitness to market. However, you can buy directly from the manufacturer under the name “GoWearFit”.. you can get the armband for $179 on Amazon.com.. the wrist receptor is extra but I had mine for six months before I got the wristband.. you just don’t have the instant gratification of being able to glance down at your watch… I am NOT anywhere near where you are – but for me, it was like confronting the brutal truth that I AM NOT MOVING ENOUGH. No denial. No excuses. It’s there in black and white. (Which is probably why I put it in my drawer for many months until taking it back out 8 weeks ago.)… the “catch” with either the body bugg or gowearfit is that you must SUBSCRIBE to the service… I compared the two every which way possible and landed on gowearfit. If you still have questions call BodyMedia and talk to them. They gave me a great comparison between the two – and they don’t care which one you buy since they are both essentially making money for them.. GOOD LUCK.. and thanks for the inspiration to chose a goal, remain focused and DO IT!

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