My bodybugg results

Hi, I have had a Bodybugg now for just 2 days and have many questions!

Is there a way to just enter the number of calories you have eaten without entering each food separately? I prefer to enter my calories consumed here on MFP--the food database on bodybugg seems very limited and I don't want to double track. I emailed the company but they haven't responded yet. Is it possible to just enter the total # of calories I ate? I hope so!

Another question: I heard the Bodybugg was supposed to tell you how well you sleep but I can't figure out how to get data on that. Is it really possible to do that with the BB?

Thank you!

Hi Pinkita,
Here is what I do to log in food consumed on bodybugg. In the end of the day when I have already consumed all my food and logged in MFP I go to the bodybugg program and click on Calories Consumed tab. When the small window pops us I click on the Enter Nutrition Facts tab on the bottom right and custom create the food eaten for today. Like for name I write the date. Serving size 100 grams and then the total calories, carbs,protien, fats etc of the day copied from MFP and enter that. After that if they ask for nutrtion of other meals I click on skip or I haven't consumed this meal yet. If you have to edit the info you have entered you can do it by clicking on the meal that you have logged. It is a bit complicated like this but gets easier.
About sleep then it's bodymedia fit that tells you how well you slept and not bodybugg. I went with bodybugg because I have very irregular sleep patterns with nightshifts and long work hours so I didn't want that added tension of knowing that I didn't sleep well.

I mostly have day shifts.A night shift can come up once in a while in rare cases.I fortunately don't get hungry at night so I don' t eat any food at night.I eat what I need before and after the shift.I have had to work 24 hrs one day because of a hurricane and didn't even have any more food packed with me.That went
fine.My nightshifts are very sedentary where I have to sit still near a respirator patient and help if needed.Its a total mental torture scenerio and burns just as little calories as sleeping.Not my favourite.
If everything goes well I work 3 days a week 12 hrs each from 8 am to 8 pm.Those three days I have a 1000+cals deficit.Then ofcourse there is a very lazy day that follows where I eat around 300 cals more than I burned.Then I have a party/eat out day where I burn and eat the same and two more days where I have 500 cals deficit,so average is close to 500.I am hitting my 4 weeks mark on thursday and as the scale is looking now I will hit the 4 lbs loss with 500 cals deficit per week.I am glad that I am eating normal now average 2000 cals per day because I can see myself sticking to this forever.Of course if I hit my goal weight of 125 lbs I will burn less so I will have to rethink at that time.I think learnig to eat 1800-2000 cals a day is a good long term plan.Keep up with the bodybugg and the scale will definetly move within a month if you have a deficit.

How much does the BodyBugg cost? What is difference in that and other ones on market? (someone mentioned Body Media) What is monthly plan payment?

You can find them on ebay at all prices but I paid about 220 dollars for mine with the digital display. I think the bodybugg and the display is for sale for 150 dollars for three days at their official website http://my.apexfitness.com/index.php . You get 6 months subscription included with the purchase. After that subscription costs between 7-11 dollars a month depending on how you buy the subscription or if someone is computer savvy there are hacks to Free the bugg off subscription provided one owns the digital display.
Since I don't live in USA I couldn't have bought it from the official site anyways and I am very happy that I had the possibility to own the bodybugg since they can not be sold in my country yet. Bodymedia is the company that makes bodybugg, bodyfitmedia and some other names I don't remember. Different prices, slightly different functions.

@ inspiration345- Just curious comparing your bodybugg to what MFP calculates your maintenance calories as, about how much difference was there on an average day? The reason I am asking is I have read that several people said the MFP calculations for maintenance are low and I believe they are low as well.

MFP calories for sedentary is accurate. For me it said 1700 total. On bodybugg on days when I don't do much other than cooking, washing dishes and personal care I hit 1800 so the sedentary numbers are spot on. It means you would burn that number if you were lying on couch or sleeping on bed all day and night. It only starts getting tricky when one starts moving around because there are many different calculators of estimating calories burned and non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) is different from individual to individual. I think bodybugg is useful for active people and people who feel like they are starving eating too little and end up binging once in a while.

I am having a problem trying to create my custom foods...its keeps telling me nutritional info can not be entered cause my pro, carbs and fat exceed calories for the meal....I log my meals on MFP

Recalculate your carb, protein and fats on a calculator.
Carbs and protein are 4 calories per gram
and Fats is 9 calories per gram.
For example:
If you have eaten 100 grams of carbs it will be 400 calories
100 grams of fats = 900 calories
100 grams of protein = 400 calories
Total 300 grams of nutrients 1700 calories.

Sorry I forgot that you are a nurse.I am sure you understand the problem. MFP is not necessarily accurate with nutrient information if it's customer created. If calories exceed nutrients then add on the nutrients instead of subtracting the total calories-that's what I do.