Bodybugg/bodymedia users

how can you be doing it wrong . AS far as the calories burned i burnt 310 calories this AM on the tread mill and my body bug sys i burnt 190 HMMMMM so what one do you believe really . And i have this happen ALL THE TIME

Best investment I've made. Anyone who says that the calorie count is way off is doing it wrong. I've been using it for a few months and lost 56 pounds. I know at the end of the day exactly where I stand. I know if I can add to what I am eating or if I need to cut back. There is no guess work in how many calories I burned. It works better than anything else for weight lifting (HRMs are way off when doing that) and I've never had it (as far as I can tell) overestimate my burn since I've lost weight consistently every week.

Bump, I would like to do more research on this.

On the bodymedia website under settings you can change the METs slider which is what translates to moderate/vigorous activity on the app. I found that mine was set so high when I first purchased my band that I never reached vigorous, despite doing Hiit Workouts and knowing that my heart rate was very high.

how can you be doing it wrong . AS far as the calories burned i burnt 310 calories this AM on the tread mill and my body bug sys i burnt 190 HMMMMM so what one do you believe really . And i have this happen ALL THE TIME

Best investment I've made. Anyone who says that the calorie count is way off is doing it wrong. I've been using it for a few months and lost 56 pounds. I know at the end of the day exactly where I stand. I know if I can add to what I am eating or if I need to cut back. There is no guess work in how many calories I burned. It works better than anything else for weight lifting (HRMs are way off when doing that) and I've never had it (as far as I can tell) overestimate my burn since I've lost weight consistently every week.

I am not sure how you can be doing it wrong, was a broad, sweeping statement. But I can tell you that nothing is 100% accurate but the BodyMedia device is as close as it can get. I have consistently lost weight since using it eating a lot more than I did when I was guessing.

As many say, treadmills and ellipticals and other machines overestimate calories burned. If your treadmill says 310 and your BodyMedia says 190, I'd go with 190. The treadmill used to tell me I burned 1000 calories when I was running, but the BodyMedia told me 700. If I ate that extra 300 every day, I wouldn't be losing weight nearly as fast because my deficit would be 700 instead of 1000 per day.

It's not 100%, but it is as close as you can get right now.

I love my BodyMedia! Before I got it I did not realize how much I burned each day. No wonder I was starving at 1500 calories! The only issue I've had with it is that it does not understand horseback riding. It gave me WAY too much credit for a half hour lesson! :laugh: Now I take it off when I ride and enter it manually later.

Heck yeah! I found for me that ellipricals overestimated my calories but treadmills underestimated. The first 20 min I would run I was burning about 7-8 calories a min. But by 30 min I was up to 10-12 calories a min. The machine didn't account for that.

I found the same thing. The machines were all wrong, or at least, all different from what the BodyBug said I was actually burning. The treadmill was much higher than it said, and the elliptical was much lower. I don't use it now, but only because I didn't want to pay the monthly subscription fee for the website to download the data anymore.

Love mine. I have had one for a few years now. No issues with the newest model LINK. I had the previous 3 versions as well.

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I love mine. Although the burns are a touch high for me (been eating at 500 deficit (food weighed & measured) from the BMF for 3+months and maintained), the armband has been invaluable in learning how simply being more active with day to day activities makes a tremendous impact on calories burned. In that respect, I have also learned why I always was so friggin hungry on days I didn't "do" anything (because I didn't "workout"). And the data that is easily available and exportable and so much else is more than worth the cost.

I find recording for biking to be kind of a crapshoot, but that's really my only con.

I recently was looking for a good pedometer and wound up getting a Bodymedia Fit CORE instead. I'd like to find a better band for it as the elastic is already creased and rolls, but other than that I am very pleased.

I am in a pre-surgical weight loss program and knew I was shortchanging myself on my exercise reports. I don't have a car so I run most of my errands on foot. I was not great at documenting that, because I'm busy getting stuff done, not clicking on a stopwatch as I go from place to place!

I also like being able to see how often I am getting up in the night, having disturbed sleep for both health reasons (i am on a diuretic. They can adjust the dosage if I'm getting up to pee too often) and other reasons (Work emergency after 10 pm? How long did that take? Neighbors woke me up? What time was that? etc)

I have had some problems with the integration with myfitnesspal and have had to install/uninstall a few times because information stopped flowing between the two, and I'm not crazy about how exercise gets reported. For example, today BodyMedia says I burned 2693 calories in 1:30 of physical activity, but that shows up on the MFP Exercise page as Cardiovascular: "Bodymedia calorie adjustment" adding 791 calories to my daily calorie allowance. I find that confusing.