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Okay, bodybugg full day review.
First, it takes a while to adjust to the arm band. Either it feels too tight, or it moves around. After a while though, I managed to forget it was there... until I'd move it, or when I did my cardio - then it was irritating. (Kind of like a paper cut that you forget until you get soap in it.)
Total calories burned for the day, 3359.
One thing I found weird... the recommendation is to wear your armband 23 hours a day, giving your skin an hour to breathe. However, if you enter your "normal" sleep time into the questionnaire, it will not record your actions during this time. As I'm a constant up and downer, and rarely fall asleep when I say i'm going to, I circumvented this by making my nightly sleep from 2 am to 2:30 am =). The 3359 includes a 25 minute cardio video tape (the biggest loser workout), a 35 minute stationary bike ride, my normal daily baby chasing and house cleaning activities, and the fact that on wednesday nights I go out with my friends, which is a fairly active event. I'd say it seems "about" right.
I find just wearing the bugg motivates me to move around more. How long that lovely effect will last, I do not know - but it definitely is working for now. Knowing that I am going to see the numbers, high or low, was always in the back of my head today, getting me to push a little harder, or move around when I didn't really need too. (Extra benefit... my house is even cleaner than normal! =).)
I still detest the website. It is not user friendly, the commands are scattered all over the place... you enter meals one way, but to edit them you use a whole different system... there's a graph that you need to highlight correctly before you can enter your "off body" time, and that's strange. And as I said before, both the food and exercise options are extremely limited. The food options at least allow you to enter your own, although I see little point, since at this point I've entered everything I eat into fat secret, but I will continue to use it for a few more days, because I want a chance to see how I feel about their nutritional graphs. (That is the only plus I can see... unlike fatsecret, where you are limited in the amount of factors you can have show up on your chart, all of the nutritional items they use show up, with bar graphs showing your relation to the daily rdi... however, that's limited... they track fiber, but not sugars or other carbs. they track fat and saturated fat, but not trans. etc etc.) Entering activities for the off body time is EXTREMELY limited, and there is no option for "other" that I have found yet. For example, shower is not even an option..which you think would be, seeing as you cannot wear the bugg under water. =).
Overall however, I'm getting exactly what I want... a concept of how many calories i'm burning... and not just daily, but the graph can break it down to the minute for you, once you figure out how to use it...so I can rate things like if I pushed myself harder in my boot camp today than 2 days ago... and a reason to feel accountable to myself, as I've found that after 6 months of constant self-motivation, I've really been lagging in the last month or two.
Will it make an overall difference in my weight loss, I do not know. I have the free membership until January, so until at least then, I will continue to test it. Since I lost about 43 pounds in the first 6 months of my lifestyle change... if I lose even 20 in the next 6 months (its always harder after the initial weight and the initial bad habits are broken) - I will consider it a worthwhile investment! =)
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260 kkal
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Lemak: 3,50g | Prot: 8,00g | Karb: 51,00g.
Makan Pagi: Light & Fit Yogurt, frozen mixed fruit, unsweetened vanilla almond breeze. lagi...
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You should enter a day's activities here and compare what you get. People always say the numbers here are really high, but the longer I've been using fs the more they seem to be correct, or pretty close. I'd be curious what you'd get.
21 Jul 10 oleh anggota: k8yk
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I will try it at some point, although its going to have to be on a day when I can pay attention to detail... like, 5 minutes walking in circles, etc. =). Maybe a day when I don't do too much, like Saturday, when I can send the baby out with his dad and relax a little!
22 Jul 10 oleh anggota: confusedangel
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Will say this - left my activities for the day as the standard pre-sets, but added in 3 hours of shopping (I actually spent 4 hours shopping, but a little of that was sitting at starbucks,and a lot of it was spent travelling from one store to another, or sitting in the chair in baby's r us trying to read the registery forms my friends filled out)... and my fat secret calories are over today's bodybugg calories by about 900... however, fatsecret is showing a full 24 hours worth, while bodybugg has 6.5 hours to go before the end of the 24 hour period. however, if i compare the 737 that fatsecrets says i'd burn in 3 hours of shopping, and the 697 i did burn in the 4 hours i was out... i'd say its awfully close, what with the extra time of sitting around doing nothing.
22 Jul 10 oleh anggota: confusedangel
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Yeah, that's kind of what I would expect. When I first joined here, I though no WAY was I burning over 3000 calories a day and still gaining weight. Then I started inputting food and it all became painfully clear, I was eating WAY more than I ever would have thought. It still took me quite a long time to accept that the FS calculation could possibly be correct, but now I think it's pretty much spot on. If you take my average calories over the last 6 months and divide it by 3500, you get the number of pounds I've lost within 5 pounds. But I never enter activities other than focused exercise. I guess I'm dubious that sitting at my desk all day is any different than resting :) Not enough to matter. Well, interesting. Keep posting what you think of it. I'm very curious about these things.
22 Jul 10 oleh anggota: k8yk
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I agree completely. Was a big shock to consider how much I must have been eating, especially in my whole "one meal per day is perfect" mindset, to have been gaining at the rate that I gained at the end there. (Post baby, I gained almost 30 pounds in less than 3 months.) But it was fairly easy to accept once I realized the amount of calories there really are in things like P'Zones. =)
22 Jul 10 oleh anggota: confusedangel
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