Body Media

Hi - I'm in the UK where we can only get old versions, but I have just ordered a Body Media Link from the States via ebay. I'm really near to my goal and hope it will help me to maintain, or even lose a few extra pounds to get me well into the healthy weight range rather than right at the top. Have you synced yours with MFP? How are you getting on with it? I love gadgets and I think it will probably love it! Do send me a friend request if you'd like to catch up regularly, I only keep a few MFP's and take a real interest in how they are getting on. :flowerforyou:

I've been using mine for over a year and I love it! It definitely keeps me motivated and honest. Besideds MFP, I'm linked to walgreens, earndit, and everymove so I earn discounts, gift cards, and prizes for using it as well.

Do you find it accurate?

I've been using mine for over a year and I love it! It definitely keeps me motivated and honest. Besideds MFP, I'm linked to walgreens, earndit, and everymove so I earn discounts, gift cards, and prizes for using it as well.

Do you find it accurate?

I have all the same links--love the Walgreens ones. I've already requested that CVS and Starbucks do the same thing! I won't hold my breath but I'll sure cross my fingers!!!!

I've encountered an issue with BodyMedia which none of the customer support representatives have been able to convince me this issue is normal.

What this BodyMesia won't tell you is, that their stupid system is not 90% accurate as they claim. Basically, the Device Manager will calculate, based on your previous data, an estimate of calories burn during the times you don't wear the armband. That's my issue and this is exactly where I call it false advertising.

To use an example, if for 3 months I've been actively wearing the armband, working in the construction field, and working out 1 hour a day, my calories burned will be very high, so if for one week I'm injured or sick and I lay down in bed, not wearing the armband, the Device Manager will use the data from those previous 3 months and calculate an estimate for that week of complete inactivity. Is this really accuracy? Of course is not.

How did I find out about this issue? Well, after using the armband during the day I liked to download all the data to the Device Manager to bring the armband to 0 and put the armband back on only at the time I would start my workout. Let me mention to you, that the armband will turn on itself once it makes contact with the skin making a series of beeps, and it will turn off with another series of beeps once you take it off. Anyways, one day after waiting approximately 30 minutes since I downloaded the data to the time I was going to workout, I decided to plug the armband back to the computer and I noticed it was showing new calories burned. I tried this again in different occasions and did the same thing. So my idea of using the armband only during the workout to calculate how many calories I would burn during the specific workout wasn't going to work if the Device Manager was adding calories I didn't burn or calories burned based on previous data.

I've contacted their customer support in more than one occasion and apparently there's nothing they can do. So on top of the price of the device and the need to pay for a subscription, I'm not going to get an accurate reading in the most important moment of all, which is when I workout, unless I also buy their display item? Not worth it at all.

So for those of you who have one, be careful now that you know this and not trust 90% the numbers this thing is displaying for you. Of course, unless you don't mind having calories calculated for you when you don't wear the armband.

I've been using mine for over a year and I love it! It definitely keeps me motivated and honest. Besideds MFP, I'm linked to walgreens, earndit, and everymove so I earn discounts, gift cards, and prizes for using it as well.

Do you find it accurate?

I have all the same links--love the Walgreens ones. I've already requested that CVS and Starbucks do the same thing! I won't hold my breath but I'll sure cross my fingers!!!!

I actually won something on EarndIt. A $50 gift card to one of their partners. I got an absolutely free hydration pack.

BodyMedia has been awesome in responding to their customer's requests. I can't believe how far they have come in a year - from a rudimentary food log with a glitchy phone app to now wireless data uploads and plenty of apps to link to. I love that they added MFP because it makes logging food 10X easier - I am much better at logging now, especially since I can use the barcode scanner.

You should google the upgrade they are coming out with in August.....you can swim with it, you have options for heart rate monitor, and best of all it's smaller and PRETTY!

I've encountered an issue with BodyMedia which none of the customer support representatives have been able to convince me this issue is normal.

What this BodyMesia won't tell you is, that their stupid system is not 90% accurate as they claim. Basically, the Device Manager will calculate, based on your previous data, an estimate of calories burn during the times you don't wear the armband. That's my issue and this is exactly where I call it false advertising.

To use an example, if for 3 months I've been actively wearing the armband, working in the construction field, and working out 1 hour a day, my calories burned will be very high, so if for one week I'm injured or sick and I lay down in bed, not wearing the armband, the Device Manager will use the data from those previous 3 months and calculate an estimate for that week of complete inactivity. Is this really accuracy? Of course is not.

How did I find out about this issue? Well, after using the armband during the day I liked to download all the data to the Device Manager to bring the armband to 0 and put the armband back on only at the time I would start my workout. Let me mention to you, that the armband will turn on itself once it makes contact with the skin making a series of beeps, and it will turn off with another series of beeps once you take it off. Anyways, one day after waiting approximately 30 minutes since I downloaded the data to the time I was going to workout, I decided to plug the armband back to the computer and I noticed it was showing new calories burned. I tried this again in different occasions and did the same thing. So my idea of using the armband only during the workout to calculate how many calories I would burn during the specific workout wasn't going to work if the Device Manager was adding calories I didn't burn or calories burned based on previous data.

I've contacted their customer support in more than one occasion and apparently there's nothing they can do. So on top of the price of the device and the need to pay for a subscription, I'm not going to get an accurate reading in the most important moment of all, which is when I workout, unless I also buy their display item? Not worth it at all.

So for those of you who have one, be careful now that you know this and not trust 90% the numbers this thing is displaying for you. Of course, unless you don't mind having calories calculated for you when you don't wear the armband.

It's designed to be worn most of the day. To find out calories burned in any time period- you use the slider on the activity manager. Am I being thick- I don't understand your problem. You can't use it incorrectly and then complain it doesn't work.

It's designed to be worn most of the day. To find out calories burned in any time period- you use the slider on the activity manager. Am I being thick- I don't understand your problem. You can't use it incorrectly and then complain it doesn't work.

Use it incorrectly? I may have to disagree. The device is supposed to work while you wear it, not assume calories burned while you don't wear it. There are infinite possibilities why I wouldn't wear the device. From working in areas where any electronic device is not permitted to having to stop wearing it for a temporary skin condition, etc. So while BodyMedia suggest to wear the device all the time, they also say the accuracy depends on you wearing it all the time, which doesn't justify the fact it calculates calories behind your back while not wearing the device.

You want to blame me on me for not wearing it, sure, go ahead, but that won't change the fact and the reality made up calories burned is accurate.

And in regards of the other answer, about buying extra accessories to be able to select workout calories, it makes sense for the company since they will make money by having you buy more stuff. Then again, if I would have known this issue, I would have decided whether I would have bought the extra accessories or just get a HRM instead. I like transparency, I don't like products companies that don't explain everything about their products.

What do you mean 'buy extra accessories'. I'm talking about the computer programme- the activity manager. its very clear that you need to subscribe. I still don't understand how you can not use it as you're supposed to and then complain in doesnt work!!!!! If you need to take if off during the day then this isn't the device for you but you're not using it as its designed.