BodyBugg Armband Device and GoWearFit Activity Manager: Your Personal Weight Loss Coach and Motivator
Bodybugg armband is a new gadget that is supposed to help people achieve their weight loss and fitness goals. It gained popularity quickly, after it was featured on the Biggest Loser TV show. Although I am a firm believer that you do NOT need to count calories or to buy expensive equipment, supplements, pills or other stuff to lose weight and stay fit; if you have money and feel the need – then there are lots of cool products – such as Body Bugg Armband and its more affordable cousin – GowearFit - to help you stay on track of your weight loss goals, and besides – who doesn’t like to get a cool gadget to play with from time to time.
What is Bodybugg and GoWearFit?
If you need to weight, you need to burn more calories. But do you know exactly how many calories your body burns throughout the day?
Both GoWear Fit and Body Bugg are promoted as the state-of-the-art technology in calorie management that is supposed to help people lose weight and stay in control of their weight loss goals. They are – simply speaking – armband devices that record your daily caloric expenditure. This is done by using the following four sensors to measure motion, temperature and perspiration:
1. Accelerometer – For measuring motion and movement.
2. Heat Flux – For measuring the amount of heat that your body gives off.
3. Galvanic Skin Response – For measuring how much stress your body gives off.
4. Skin Temperature – For measuring your body skin temperature.
You can buy a Bodybugg for $250. In addition to the calorie tracking technology, you will also receive a diet program free for 6 months, a 45-minute phone coaching session to help get you started. There is also a cheaper BodyBugg alternative that you can find on Amazon called GoWear fit Lifestyle and Calorie Management system for $179. Another option is the Gruve Personal Calorie Burn and Activity Intensity Monitor, which will cost you about $230.
If you need tools to motivate you to get moving and start losing those pounds, then the Bodybugg or GoWear Fit armband will be your personal weight loss coach and motivator. It will tell you how many calories you burn playing with the kids, getting ready for work in the morning, exercising in the gym, or mowing the lawn.
Many people using these devices admit that they take the guess work out of the weight loss, while motivating them to stay active all day long. You can just wear it during the course of your day – just as the Biggest Loser contestants – and then plug it into the software (beware, though, you need a paid subscription to the site) and upload your data to your personal Online Activity Manager.
The software features include setting personalized goals and tracking progress on the push of the button – it will show you minute by minute, how many calories your body is burning during the day. It also provides tools to help you know how many calories you’re eating, on average, per day. The GoWear Fit Online Activity Manager is included without charge for three months when you buy Gowear on Amazon. After three months, you will have to pay a subscription: $6.95 per month with a 12-month commitment, $9.95 per month for a six-month commitment, or $12.95 per month with no commitment.
The Body Bugg and GoWear fit systems differ from all the rest of performance monitors. They are not simple heart-rate monitors, GPS devices, or pedometers. A cool feature of GoWear Fit that is not found in Bodybugg is that it even measures your sleep (a useful feature for those of us who suffer from insomnia, and even calorie counting does not help them fall asleep, LOL), so for example, it can accurately record how long lie down awake (trying to go to sleep or waking up from sleep) versus how long you are in deep REM sleep.
And of course, as cool as these devices are, they will not be losing the weight for you. You will still need to do the work the old-fashioned way – by eating better and moving more.
Read some customer reviews:
I did not have a chance to try the BodyBugg or GowearFit by myself, it does have some great reviews on Amazon. And as one reviewer points out, you may not need the paid subscription program, if you use the free Sparkpeople.com website.
“The device is, quite simply, amazing. …As far as nutrition tracking and calorie consumption, it would have been nice for everything to be included, but, as another reviewer stated, it is easy enough to track your nutrition using a free program like the one at sparkpeople (search for that word if you don’t know what it is). Even without using an outside program, the gowear does have nutrition assessment or it can estimate your caloric intake based upon the statistics you provide when you first set up the armband.In addition, the gowear fit Activity Manager displays your calorie balance, duration of activity (including the intensity of it), and steps. I also just discovered that it exports your data to a Microsoft Excel page that you can store on your computer and use to track your long-term success.
This device is an incredible motivator. During the first few days that I had it on, I did not go to the gym because I wanted to get a baseline of my normal activities. When I finally started to go to the gym, I was thrilled by my Calories Burned…until I recorded my food for the day and saw that I was simply breaking even. With such instant feedback, I altered my eating habits, and in the last 3 days I lost 3 lbs. I know that water is the first to go when one begins a diet, but I also saw the 2,000 calorie deficit that I had yesterday alone, and I know that after the water is gone, I will continue to lose.”
Amazon.com: GoWear fit Lifestyle and Calorie Management System: Health & Personal Care
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