BodyMedia/BodyBugg users: Does it help?

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  • Verity1111
    Verity1111 Posts: 3,309 Member
    @mibrewer413 Well thank you. Im a little irritated at the moment as I went to pee and it said I took 23 steps -_- lol

    @bikinibelieve Well works for me! I pray it is working aas well for me soon. It is saying I take steps while Im still :/
  • norcal_yogi
    norcal_yogi Posts: 675 Member
    *gained* 5 lbs using a BMF. sold it on Ebay....
    i was burning (according to device) 2700-3000 a day, yet eating at around 1500-1700...and GAINING.

    good luck if you keep it!
  • lisamarie2181
    lisamarie2181 Posts: 560 Member
    I dont know what model i have but i have had mine a few years so maybe the original? Lol anyway, i love mine and think it was a great investment. I have my cals set from my bmr and tdee so my exercise cals are already included, so i mostly use it to see how much i burn in a workout, my steps and some of the other features. I like it for the fact that if i see my cals are low, it will encourage me to get up and get moving to burn more calories. On my workout days my burns around 2700 give or take for the whole day, strength days dont show burns the same as cardio ones so those days the cals burned is a bit lower, and on rest days im usually between 2300 to 2400.

    I hope you like it, i know a few people w them and havent heard anything negative, maybe some people just a few bad ones in the bunch!
  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
    It is really just an expensive tool to figure your TDEE; in fact, I suspect they just calculate your TDEE in the beginning when you register and fake everything else. You could just use a formula and get the same number. It counts FORWARD MOVING steps, so it's fine for walking, I guess. HOWEVER, it does not work for "non-standard" activities (and there is no list, anywhere, of non-standard activities that you will be able to find, however if you call customer service they will tell you that everything except walking is non-standard).

    Here are examples of my activities that registered pretty much nada on the BB (all non-standard, of course): dancing, spinning, cycling, paddleboarding, power lifting. You might think that since it counts steps that it would work for dancing. Nope. Only forward-moving steps. Not sideways or backwards.

    Do not recommend.
  • Verity1111
    Verity1111 Posts: 3,309 Member
    It is really just an expensive tool to figure your TDEE; in fact, I suspect they just calculate your TDEE in the beginning when you register and fake everything else. You could just use a formula and get the same number. It counts FORWARD MOVING steps, so it's fine for walking, I guess. HOWEVER, it does not work for "non-standard" activities (and there is no list, anywhere, of non-standard activities that you will be able to find, however if you call customer service they will tell you that everything except walking is non-standard).

    Here are examples of my activities that registered pretty much nada on the BB (all non-standard, of course): dancing, spinning, cycling, paddleboarding, power lifting. You might think that since it counts steps that it would work for dancing. Nope. Only forward-moving steps. Not sideways or backwards.

    Do not recommend.
    It seems to know about my moderate/vigorous activity. Does yours not work for that? I just tested it. I danced moderately for a few minutes and it counted, then I danced "vigorously" and it counted some more. It also seems to have the correct time on it (except a minute or two after where I was burning up it counted maybe one extra minute lol Im sweating/warm/heart going quic so maybe thats why)

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