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The bugg will track your calories and you don't have to do anything. I wear it while I sleep and when I look at my calories online at the web site I can tell when I get up and go the bathroom or go down stairs in the middle of the night to check the door or something. It graphs out the entire day so I know that when I played volleyball on Thursday I burned 750 calories during my game and so on. Now you can log your food on this same web site and see when you are getting close to eating more than you are burning or if you are in a negative number=losing weight. There is another option instead of food logging, you put your weight in each week so it can track your progress and your goals. Since you put your weight in it can estimate your calorie intake since it knows that 3500 calories equals 1 pound.

So how is it differnet than looking up Weight Watchers web site, logging what you eat each meal & logging in your exercise???

Seems not to save me any aggrevation?:eek:

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I think there's a bit of misunderstanding going on here. The bodybugg calculates exactly how many calories your are burning every minute of the day while you are wearing it. The digital display (the watch looking thing) gives you a readout up to the minute throughout the day of how many calories you have burned for the day. You upload the bugg's info to the website, and it shows you a cool chart of what you've burned. You enter in your food on the website, and it shows you your calorie deficit or lack thereof, and for every 3,500 calorie deficit, that should be a pound of fat burned. Click on this website for further information: BODYBUGG :: HOW IT WORKS

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I think there's a bit of misunderstanding going on here. The bodybugg calculates exactly how many calories your are burning every minute of the day while you are wearing it. The digital display (the watch looking thing) gives you a readout up to the minute throughout the day of how many calories you have burned for the day. You upload the bugg's info to the website, and it shows you a cool chart of what you've burned. You enter in your food on the website, and it shows you your calorie deficit or lack thereof, and for every 3,500 calorie deficit, that should be a pound of fat burned. Click on this website for further information: BODYBUGG :: HOW IT WORKS

Your explanation is what I was looking for....:smile:

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I'm bad about the food log, too. I carry around a little notebook and i write everything down as i eat it, quantity and what it was, and I do the best I can when logging it. Someone else created a nutrition facts profile for "100 calories" and they enter their food in that way. I tried that and it's saved me a ton of time. If I write everything down along with the calories that I do know, then all I have to do is figure out the calorie content of the stuff I didn't know, and enter that in.

It's just a matter of making it work for your life, not the other way around.

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You'd actually be quite amazed at how much you're actually eating. The BodyBugg does help keep you inline as long as you're honest with your food journal. My Trainor said people underestimate their food intake by as much as 40% on average and they wonder why they aren't losing? She also said that most packaged foods actually weigh more than the serving sizes noted on the package. So weigh everything you eat on a regular basis and you'll soon get to know if you need to actually count MORE calories than the package says. Example she gave was Healthy Choice meals. She said she's found almost every package weighs more than the label states is a serving and how many servings in the package...meaning it may say 1 serving when it's actually 1.5 servings you're eating! Amazing...and you know I checked some things I was eating and she was right...even the bread weighed differently than the label. Give it a whirl...those calories add up quick!

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I keep a food log for a few days when I'm off track, and it really gets me honest. Then sometimes I just use my fingers and a rubber band. I pretty much know when something is 100 calories, so for every 100, I move the rubber band to the next finger. When it's on the last finger, I'm done for the day. It works when I work it.....

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I LOVE LOVE LOVE that idea! I think I might try it! I especially love it just because when I'm tracking like I should be, I catch myself constantly having to log on to the computer to see where I'm sitting with my calories. This way, I'll know within 100 calories where I am!

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Hey Y'all! Well, here I am! I started this thread and dissappeared because I hit a freakin' plateau. I never gave up though and always used my bodybugg. Last week, I finally figured out that I had to push myself a little harder! And Voila...it has started coming off again. :)

My body is stubborn! If it wasn't for the bodybugg and lapband, I would go insane. So, when I hit another plateau, I'll just figure out how to push myself harder next time.

I will when this battle. How can I not? I'm fully equipped? :)

Good luck everyone!

Charlotte

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o.k. i just order mine today but already have a question about it i'm going on vacation in a few weeks and was wondering how and can it go with me without a laptop computer ?? :tt1:

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The armband will store your info for up to 14 days, (I think), and you can always write down your food and log it when you get back.... Or not! LOL! I've gone 2 and 3 days without uploading my bugg, and it's not a big deal.

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