Bodybugg/bodymedia users

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.