I have had mine for 2 months and love it. I have consistently lost weight. I am at a plateau now and changing my diet to finish my weight loss.

I like the body media because it tells me how much sleep have had and shows me how much I need. I always eat more when I dont get sleep.

It helps me track how much I have burned. I really had no idea before buying it. haha.

oh lol i answered this with a long post about how awesome it is but i cant read. you wanted to know about maintenence. I cant delete the post so I'll just say that I seem to be getting really accurate numbers even though im still trying to lose 2lbs a month.

Im not too worried about my target, i just check my numbers all day, workout at least a little every day, and leave a 1,000 calorie deficit daily which would give me a 2lbs avg loss per week if I stuck to it religiously. (I'm pretty good but not always. I've been losing an avg of 1.7lbs a week) If i want to eat more, I exercise more so I can maintain that 1,000 calorie deficit each day. Realistically, I burn about 2500 a day and eat an average of about 1500 calories a day. Which makes me much happier than the 1200 you get on most every diet. The BMF is totally working for me because I'm never starving so I stick to it.

I am losing weight. Ever since I bought the bodymedia link armband my progress has been steady and I am working out less. Before I had the bodymedia armband I was killing myself at the gym burning calories like crazy and that made me extremely hungry, some days I couldn't help myself and I really needed to eat back my exercise calories. What happened is that my metabolism had gone up and I was already burning tons of calories without exercising and I didnt know it. I was going by what the calculators on myfitness pal and other websites suggest for my height and weight, but those things dont take into account your muscles, etc.
According to most BMR calculators at my weight and height and taking into account my activity level I should be burning 1800-1900 calories a day (just living), but I found out that I burn around 2200-2500 calories a day when I dont exercise, so I was going to the gym and exercising enough to burn 1000 calories on top of that and some days even more, and I wasnt eating enough (even though I was eating 1900 calories some days) and yes, I was losing weight at the beginning, but soon enough my body thought I was out to kill him and stopped losing.
Now I exercise less and I can easily eat less, because my body is not constantly asking me to feed him because I am not burning like crazy, and I am not kidding you I am losing at least 1 pound per week when no more.
In conclusion I love my bodymedia link armband and I think it works wonders :-)

I used mine to lose the last 23 lbs. in about 7 months last year and have continued to use it to maintain since October. I try to stay within about 100 calories of my burn every day, and while my weight has fluctuated up and down a couple of pounds, I have remained pretty steady--I weighed 111 on 10/1/12 and this morning I weighed 110.7.

I had a bodymedia fit a couple of years ago and broke it, but it did work while I had it. I just got a Bodymedia Link, as I travel a lot for work and wanted to be able to upload on the road without having to carry my monster laptop with me. While I find it hard to trust the numbers, I decided to just eat 1000 less than what it says I'm burning per day, but not lower than 1700 average. If i sit around doing nothing all day I burn 2200. If I get my 10000 step goal in a day I burn around 2700-2800. I just completed my first full week using the armband and had almost exactly a 7000 calorie deficit for the week. I lost 1.5 lbs. I was traveling all last week and the sodium levels were off the charts too lol. Because of weight loss not being linear (mine seems to go in spurts) it will take a few months for me to see if it averages out to 2 lbs a week. I think it will though.

I love how the bodymedia now links with MFP. That truly is awesome. One thing that does not seem very accurate so far is the bodymedia's "estimated burn" that it gives you for the rest of the day. Today I went for a 4 mile hilly walk in the morning and now MFP is telling me that I should eat 2460 calories total because the Bodymedia Fit is estimating my total burn today to be 3400. That is too high as I don't plan on doing much the rest of the day. I've seen this before and it will readjust as the day goes on and get more accurate as I upload more data. I know the total will actually end up being 2800 to 2900 calories. I just use any "extra calories" over the 1700 the next day or later in the week ( i go by weekly calories) instead of using the "prediction" the day of.

Often it is hard to get my armband to upload using my phone..I can link the armband to the phone just fine, and see my data, but I hit upload and it sometimes keeps saying "armband upload failed". I have the app on my android tablet as well and usually can upload from there fairly easily but using the tablet requires wifi.

My BMF hasn't recorded any activity while in a car but I have heard of people having that issue. The one time I rode on the motorcycle w/my hubby the BMF actually recorded some vigorous activity but I figured it's cuz I really don't like being a passenger on motorbikes. It will however record activity (and steps) when I'm on the tractor but...........................my calories burned seemed to be accurate (based on what my weight did during haying season).
As far as the elliptical goes, my elliptical (and MFP) always credit me w/much higher numbers than my BMF. My heart rate monitor credits me w/slightly higher numbers than my BMF. On the day that I wrote everything down for my 54 minutes of exercise, my elliptical said I burned 532 calories, BMF said 522, HR monitor said 280, and BMF said 201. I use (record on MFP) my numbers from my HR monitor but allow the BMF to make any (positive or negative) adjustments to my day. Based on my 2+ years experience, I think over the course of your daily burn, the BMF is the most accurate.

My BMF hasn't recorded any activity while in a car but I have heard of people having that issue. The one time I rode on the motorcycle w/my hubby the BMF actually recorded some vigorous activity but I figured it's cuz I really don't like being a passenger on motorbikes. It will however record activity (and steps) when I'm on the tractor but...........................my calories burned seemed to be accurate (based on what my weight did during haying season).
As far as the elliptical goes, my elliptical (and MFP) always credit me w/much higher numbers than my BMF. My heart rate monitor credits me w/slightly higher numbers than my BMF. On the day that I wrote everything down for my 54 minutes of exercise, my elliptical said I burned 532 calories, BMF said 522, HR monitor said 280, and BMF said 201. I use (record on MFP) my numbers from my HR monitor but allow the BMF to make any (positive or negative) adjustments to my day. Based on my 2+ years experience, I think over the course of your daily burn, the BMF is the most accurate.

This was very helpful. Thank you. The fact that you have over 2 years of experience and used different devices, is comforting. I wondered how accurate it was in these different situations and even though it throws up weird numbers sometimes, it seems to be accurate overall. Getting that odd reading in the car threw everything into question for me.

Update:

2 1/2 weeks in and I still haven't lost. But I'm eating about 200 more cals a day than I was, and I'm not gaining, so that continues to be a victory.

I'm trying to slowly eat closer and closer To my TDEE to test it and when I completely stabilize I will search for the correct deficit. I've decided to truly be patient this time!

The Bodymedia is putting my TDEE about 300 or 400 calories higher than any most of the calculators. And I was eating several hundred below those calculators so this has helped me realize just how much I was under eating. No wonder I stopped losing and started gaining. My big mistake was in hugely underestimating my non-exercise activity. After watching my numbers, I can certainly say that no trip to the gym is going to make up for sitting on your butt all day! Lets get up and get moving!

This is so great to here! Im worried im in the same situation regarding metabolism. I decreased exercise and increased calories and haven't gained either. Im still not equalling my bmf though. It will be interesting to hear your further updates!

Ok, I really feel like a freak now.

My average intake for the last month is 1650 calories in, with a deficit of 1250 per day. I really kicked up my exercise this month. That should have produced a 10 pound loss (35k calories over 4 weeks). My weight has fluctuated over 4 weeks for a net loss of 2 pounds.

Since I got the LINK in February, my deficit has been no less than 700 calories (daily average for the week). My caloric intake no less than 1300 (daily average for the week) - but usually at least 1400 and closer to 1600.

I'm 5'4". I was 239 when I got the armband in February. Today I weighed in at 236.

Today Isent my armband back for a replacement because it completely stopped working. While I'd like to think that it was a total dud and that my new one will have completely different results, the numbers it produced seemed realistic. Unless it was just programmed to give me realistic numbers based on my demographics and didn't really detect anything on my body.

I don't know. But I guess what I'm saying is, "No, body media is not working for me. But it looks cool."

Ok, I really feel like a freak now.

My average intake for the last month is 1650 calories in, with a deficit of 1250 per day. I really kicked up my exercise this month. That should have produced a 10 pound loss (35k calories over 4 weeks). My weight has fluctuated over 4 weeks for a net loss of 2 pounds.

Since I got the LINK in February, my deficit has been no less than 700 calories (daily average for the week). My caloric intake no less than 1300 (daily average for the week) - but usually at least 1400 and closer to 1600.

I'm 5'4". I was 239 when I got the armband in February. Today I weighed in at 236.

Today Isent my armband back for a replacement because it completely stopped working. While I'd like to think that it was a total dud and that my new one will have completely different results, the numbers it produced seemed realistic. Unless it was just programmed to give me realistic numbers based on my demographics and didn't really detect anything on my body.

I don't know. But I guess what I'm saying is, "No, body media is not working for me. But it looks cool."

I would agree with much of what you said, but the information you provide doesn't give the full picture and there are certainly more variables to us and weightloss than meerly calories burned minus calories consumed. There is muscle vs fat, salt intake and water retention, TOM, etc.

What did you do for excercise? Are you gaining muscle which my affect your results? Are your clothes looser? Are you logging all calories consumed accurately? And since the device crapped out it's possible that it wasn't giving accurate results. I have a desk job and find it a challenge to burn 2500 a day unless I make an effort to be active more during the day and get in a workout.

Hope the new unit works!!

Ok, I really feel like a freak now.

My average intake for the last month is 1650 calories in, with a deficit of 1250 per day. I really kicked up my exercise this month. That should have produced a 10 pound loss (35k calories over 4 weeks). My weight has fluctuated over 4 weeks for a net loss of 2 pounds.

Since I got the LINK in February, my deficit has been no less than 700 calories (daily average for the week). My caloric intake no less than 1300 (daily average for the week) - but usually at least 1400 and closer to 1600.

I'm 5'4". I was 239 when I got the armband in February. Today I weighed in at 236.

Today Isent my armband back for a replacement because it completely stopped working. While I'd like to think that it was a total dud and that my new one will have completely different results, the numbers it produced seemed realistic. Unless it was just programmed to give me realistic numbers based on my demographics and didn't really detect anything on my body.

I don't know. But I guess what I'm saying is, "No, body media is not working for me. But it looks cool."

It could be that your overall deficit is actually too high. 1300 calories is definitely less than your bmr