Success with a bodybugg, and eating high calories

noeys

I just got a body bugg last week, and wanted to check with those of you on here using them.

I have been tracking my food on here, cause I dont like their food tracking website. I upload from my arm band onto their site and then deduct the 750 from my total burn for my calorie intake from the day (cause BB wants me at a 750 deficit)
Is this how OTHER people are doing it? cause that has me eating crazy amounts of food, and Im SOOOO confused with how I will lose weight eating all this food... when my best friend is eating 1000 calories on the southbeach diet???

I did 3 weeks tracking here on MFP eating my exercise calories up to a net of 1200, and didnt lose a lb, so thats part of why I got the bodybugg, to see what MY body is doing, and what my burns are etc. So now continuing to eat a lot has me nervous. The science is behind this right?? I should eventually at some point lose weight??????

Thanks for any input.

psych101

Theres a few ladies in our 2000+ calories group who have bodymedia thingee magigees - they get high burns and they eat up to those!

Listen to the BB - give it a go, you'd be surprised at how much fuel your body actually needs. I eat 2100-2400 daily and I'm still dropping weight

Find out what works for you

hazelnut861

I mix my calories up all crazy but rarely have days at 1200. 2000 is average for most people so I want my body to be able to work with that. I'm doing good with it. I talked to a girl yesterday that lost weight eating 2200 a day plus exercise. She looks great. There's also a group of women on here that are committed to eating at least 2000 a day and they're doing fine. It's okay. Try it for awhile and see how it works. Gradually increase and see how you respond. I've heard it takes a few weeks for your body to adjust.

DanaM810

I've used the bodybugg before and wasn't a fan of it. It made me obsess constantly, which wasn't good for my personal mindset. Instead, I returned it and bought a Polar FT4 HRM that I wear during workouts to know how much I'm burning. If I went based solely on the calories burned that MFP estimates for you, I would be eating way more, or thinking that my net was higher than it was.

Science is behind you, and as long as you eat less than you burn, you will lose weight. I lost 40 pounds last time fairly quickly just from working out everyday and staying at 1000-1200 calories.

Try and figure out if you really want your bodybugg before the return period is over. I hate that you have to ALWAYS pay for their web program to use your bodybugg. It has to be connected once every now and then to re-program it with your information. The program is far too expensive and not really user friendly if you ask me. None of the foods I ate were already in the system and there was no quick add available. If you love your bodybugg, that's awesome! But just in case, be aware of how long you have til you can return it. Good luck!!!

kerrbear79

I just got the bodymedifit and have been using it for 2 days. The full first day says I burned 1889 calories when MFP has me netting 1440 to maintain, so that's over 400 calorie difference. I didn't even do any type of exercise that day. I'm am anxious to see what it tells me over the next few days. If I can really eat that much more I will be one happy woman.

armaretta

I lost 25 lbs using MFP and a heart rate monitor. I was happy about my success, but there were days when I was run down, exhausted, grumpy, and then I plateaued. I had been using the generic 1200 calorie marker. According to MFP, to maintain, I should net no more than 1600-1700 calories. I was very discouraged for a long time. I was seemingly doing everything right, but the inches and weight would not budge. I waited patiently for the scale or the tape measure to show a difference, but nada!

I posed a question and advice on the forums and someone suggested that 1200cals was not enough by a long shot! There was also a couple of people who suggested that I was not being honest with my self about my calorie logging, but I'm fairly obsessive, and I did not believe that at all! I measure everything I eat down the the gram! This left me to consider that I might not be eating enough after all! I thought I ate plenty! I was eating 1500-1800cals/day, and burning 300-600 off through exercise. I'm a short person, so I figured the bottom of the range was what I needed to hit if not lower. It scared me, but I upped my calories to 1400 and started slowly losing again. I lost another 2-3 lbs, then plateaued again. I was beyond frustrated at this point.

I bought a BodyMedia Fit device after careful consideration. I was in for a pretty huge shock. The first few days I wore my device, without exercise, I burned over 2000 calories. On average workout days, I burned at least 2300 calories, sometimes 2500 or more. I have been eating more, as well as zig zagging my calories. I've lost more consistently than ever, and I have a lot more energy. Sometimes, on intensive housework days on the weekends, I'll burn just as much as a workout day.

believe the device in my opinion! Now I trust my device over my HRM any day! I'm close to goal now, and I'm looking forward to using the device to find my maintenance mode!

wolfchild59

I have a BodyMedia Fit but don't use their site for food entry throughout the day, but I still always enter my food. I track everything through MFP and the. Enter it as one big meal there. That way the site can see you consumption data vs your burn data and then it uses that info in conjunction with your losses or gains and it "learns" how to better read your body over time.

Also, while I use MFP to enter my food and specific workouts, I just eat to my deficit according to my burn on my BMF. Some days that means eating some of my exercise calories and some days it means I don't touch 'em. But as long as I keep my daily deficit right around the number I want it for my weekly weight loss, I lose weight.

I've been using my BMF since Mar and it took me awhile to reconcile its numbers to what MFP was telling me. Once I started ignoring the MFP calculations and only using it or food tracking and going by only the BMF data things got back on the smooth track.

noeys

Thanks for all the replies. I definitely wasnt expecting to burn as much as I do thats for sure. Im a stay at home mom, and I work out for 45 mins on my elliptical... I burned over 3000 calories the past 2 days. SO thats why the eating is so shocking. If I take 750 off my burns I needed to be eating 2300-2500 calories a day!!!! It seems SO high to me!
And why is it possible to lose eating that much, but its also possible to lose eating 1200??? I just dont get it lol!

wolfchild59

Yeah, I was surprised at how much more I got to eat once I saw what I really burn each day. I'm not quite as high as you since I have a desk job, but it was definitely higher than MFP had estimated for me based on activity level. One piece of advice though, start adding those calories in slowly. Increase your calories by no more than 100 per week or the shock to the system could make you hold onto them and gain. I went up too fast, had to drop back down again and then when I slowly built up the next time all has been good.