Logging Food and Activity?

[hollyberries 2]

For fitness training I like ActiTrainer because I'm lazy and don't have to search for my fitness activities. LOL It just tells me how many calories I burned and I'm set. And I can increase my movement during the day to get my calories burned bumped up a little more. It feels more personalized to me rather than a "guess" as to how much I burned based on what other people at my size may burn.

Steph-

What is the ActiTrainer? Is it website that tracks your activity or is it something you buy? I would be interested in something to track my activity. Once I start to get active. LOL! I have a membership at the "Y" but haven't been able to get there lately due to my schedule. We are so busy with the opening our 2nd store and I am going nuts. But very interested in this ActiTrainer thing you speak about.

Thanks a bunch,

Cindy

[destiny79 0]

yeap I log food and activity I use a bodybugg to help with the calories I burn everyday and they have the website in log foods I ate , I always log the correct info even when I cheat:omg:

[steph_co 9]

Steph-

What is the ActiTrainer? Is it website that tracks your activity or is it something you buy? I would be interested in something to track my activity. Once I start to get active. LOL! I have a membership at the "Y" but haven't been able to get there lately due to my schedule. We are so busy with the opening our 2nd store and I am going nuts. But very interested in this ActiTrainer thing you speak about.

Thanks a bunch,

Cindy

ActiTrainer Online Data Analysis - ActiGraph, LLC. It's similar to a Bodybugg, but I think it's better. LOL Of course, my bias may come because it's what I OWN as opposed to the Bodybugg. But a few key points that I like about the ActiTrainer are that it's less expensive to buy and I think also for the monthly membership. Now, granted, with an ActiTrainer, you don't even really NEED a monthly membership. You CAN see all of your daily info on the display on the actitrainer itself. You don't HAVE to upload it to your computer to see it (you DO have to have a computer with the Bodybugg).

I wanted to try out the sleep monitor thing with the actitrainer, but it won't let me do it because I sleep during the day. I've contacted the company and they had me send them all kinds of info (like the error I was seeing when I tried to put in my sleep time 7a-3p and my actitrainer's log) and they are working to fix it. It wasn't just the rote response I was expecting of, "Not at this time." They genuinely sounded like they wanted to fix it. Considering that 20% of the workforce in this world works at night, I don't think it's too much to ask. :rofl:

What I do like and what I use frequently is to see how many calories I'm burning each day above my BMR. Every time I change my weight on the thing, it adjusts my BMR and then tells me how many calories I have burned above my BMR everyday. I generally upload my information everyday when I'm working because it helps keep me motivated. It also helps me to see if I need to get moving a little bit more for the rest of the night because I look like a slug on actitrainer. LOL

I love it. It's like a little contest with myself to see how high I can get my calories above my BMR. I haven't begun conventional exercise yet (you know - 30 mins of cardio or weight-lifting). I mostly just fit it in where I can to get moving more - 20 mins here, 20 mins there. The highest I've gotten above my BMR is 539 calories, but I usually average in the 300's. I can only imagine when I actually start adding true workouts!

[~Trixie~ 0]

Wow, I'm so slow lately! I thought Actitrainer was just like an online calorie tracker. I had no idea that it was like the Bodybugg. I'll wake up now, LOL! :rofl: