Yesterday, I started the installation process that involves signing yourself up for the myapex account, setting up your bodybugg and charging the armband. I was impressed right off the bat. Though answering the questions and going through the set up process is tedious, it is extrodinarily thourogh. I was not only asked questions like how tall I am, how much I weigh currently, and what my weight loss goals are, but strange things like Do you consider yourself nervous/anxious, do you smoke, and how bad is your PMS. The question battery was around 60 questions long! However, from your answers, the online program creates a nutrition program for you and sets up realistic goals for you as well. The nutrition program is optional to follow, as long as you monitor your calorie intake. And of course, calories are calories, but fat and carbs count too, just like any other diet situation.
After setting up my account and pluggin in the Bugg. I left it to charge overnight. The manual says that the battery should be fully charged after 3 hours. You charge it similar to an iPod, it plugs into your computer via the same USB cord (included) that you will upload your calorie burn from.
I am now through an entire day of wearing the Bugg. It is comforable, but you definatly know that it's attached to your arm. It takes a little getting used to. But what the hey, it's going to give me a 90% accurate reading of my calorie burn for the entire day!
I put it on at about 8:10am this morning. I splurged and got a little digital display so I can see how much I am burning. I don't know what I would do without it. This little display monitors where I am in caloric burn, as it is synced to the armband. This way I don't have to be plugging in my armband every two seconds to see how much I've burned. Nice added bonus.
It is now about 9:30 and I'm about to take it off. According to my little digital display, I've met my 10,000 step goal. It beeps and tells you you have a message! Nice little incentive. It also says that I've burned 2,590 calories today! :)
My target burn, as set up by the website, for my goal of loosing 2 lbs per week, is 2,400 cals. I exceeded it! But getting there was more difficult than I expected. I'm currently following the ChaLEAN Extreme program and I'm sad to say that after doing Burn 1 (35mins) I burned maybe 150 calories if I was lucky. Bummer. However, just to compare, I did Turbo Jam's Fat Blaster (30mins) right afterwards. I burned just over 300 calories!!!!! Sweet!
Knowing just how many calories I am burning during my workouts encourages me to push harder, or tack on more activity. If I wouldn't have been so shy of my caloric burn goal today, I probably wouldn't have bothered to do Turbo. So that was a good motivation in itself. Anyways. Time to upload my data. More to follow.
