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I have included this photograph of my BodyBugg for a few reasons that I hope will drive home the sincerity of this brief article.  The first thing I hope to do in this impromptu review of BodyBugg is tell you up front that I have had my BodyBugg for well over one year, and I have been losing weight all along the way.  In the photograph you see the black strap or armband, with a very well worn BodyBugg unit snapped into place.  Next to that you will see the wireless digital display.  Just for the record I would like to quickly discuss what all of this means to me.

BodyBugg has really become my friend because I feel that without having had it, I would not have lost the 76 pounds I have lost thus far.  Before I had BodyBugg on my arm I really had no clue as to what I was doing.  I would exercise and eat at Subway and yet I was still not losing weight as I thought I should.  I remember that for months I would get up before the sun and head out to the fitness center and do all sorts of exercises, from the elliptical to attempts at jogging.  Despite all of my efforts the average week ended up with a frustrating moment on the bathroom scale, week in and week out.

Then one day I read a comment from a reader of this blog asking “What is that thing on the arm of the players on The Biggest Loser?”  I really did not know what it was so my wife and I started to gather information and learn what we soon discovered, was The BodyBugg.  After listening to the very brief video segments I discovered and quickly realized that BodyBugg could be the needed component to my desire to lose the 109 pounds that I hated to see choking the spirit out of every fiber of my existence.

The cost for The BodyBugg was not something my wife could just pay for, so we saved our money for awhile and we soon ordered one unit for each of us.  We did not have the money for the digital display and honestly, we really did not think there was a need to get one.  We waited one year to get the digital display, and now I wish we had one sooner… but more on that later.  What I soon learned to be the missing component to my weight loss attempts was that I was not recording what I ate accurately enough, and all of the snacks and tidbits I ate were my diet downfall.  BodyBugg, by default, showed me that I was eating way too much food on a daily basis to have any effective or consistent weight loss.

Before BodyBugg I was eating upwards of 2,500 to 3,500 calories a day and my BodyBugg revealed that I was only burning 3,500 calories on a good day.  On the days that I did not exercise I would often have no calorie deficit at all.  BodyBugg showed me each and everyday the results of my actions and food decisions.  The donut in the break room, the bear claw with the coffee or the burger at the golden arches.  Soon I realized that despite what I thought I knew, I was a nutrition disaster and I would have had to add hours of exercise daily to make any dent in my weight.  BodyBugg soon made it quite apparent that my problem was that I was not burning nearly enough calories to have any effective weight loss when compared to the foods I was eating.

 

That was then and this is now!

The photograph above does not show a pretty, out of the box BodyBugg because it has been well worn by myself. Although I have gone through numerous replacement straps  I never had a problem or an issue with the main BodyBugg unit itself.  Because of having BodyBugg on my arm I now know that the key element to my weight loss has been the introduction to my understanding of the data that BodyBugg provides me.  I do not consider my BodyBugg old or worn out, I consider it to be war wounds of sort.  I love my BodyBugg and despite the well worn look, it is as effective as the day I first put it on my left arm.

Getting back to the digital display, I want to say that without the optional display you need to upload the data and until you do that, you know nothing of the results you are currently achieving.  With the digital display you have immediate results right before your eyes.  After a mile run I can see how many calories I burned.  With the digital display I do not need to upload to the computer, I just see the results all day long, as desired.  I still upload the data daily, but having the data visible to me all day long really helps me stay on track.

Now I walk into the breakroom and see the donuts and look at my BodyBugg and determine that after exercising for 45 minutes I burned 389 calories and that donut is 310 calories which means it really is just not worth it to eat.  Now I look at food from and entirely new perspective.  Now I feel as if because of the knowledge I have gained, I have more control over myself and the actions of what I eat.  I now look at my calorie consumption sort of like a bank account.  I no longer just eat food out of habit, I now eat food out of necessity.  I now choose my food much more specifically because of the numbers that BodyBugg provides me.  I now understand, and have the ability, to to be more discerning over what food I allow to enter my body.  I now understand that if I eat at a fast food place I can suck down well over 2,000 calories in one lunch time meal, which would requires hours and hours on a treadmill to burn off.  I now realize I used to be clueless when it came to what it took to lose weight.

The biggest change that BodyBugg taught me was not the importance of needing exercise, it was the realization of the importance of keeping track of the amount and types of food I chose to eat.  If you think the cost of BodyBugg is too expensive right now there is a sort of half step you can take with a program called FITDAY.  This is where you can keep track and start to understand the relationship you have with food.  If you can’t afford BodyBugg at this moment in time

FITDAY can start to help you understand how what you eat impacts your waist.  Granted…without BodyBugg you will not have any clue as to how many calories you are burning on a daily basis, but with this program you will at least be able to start seeing the relationship to foods specifically eaten and the results on the scale.

The photograph above shows an old and well worn BodyBugg and in this brief reivew I hope you understand that if I could take control of my waistline and reduce it from a man’s size 48 to a 36, anyone can.  BodyBugg has shown me that weight loss really is all about the relationship I have with food.  Because I use and understand BodyBugg I now have the ability to eat less than 1,000 calories each and everyday, and yet never be hungry.  I now understand that if I want to lose weight I need to eat smaller meals more often, which prevents being hungry and fosters weight loss.

After another 30 or so pounds I will be at the weight I want and then will still use BodyBugg to maintain my dream weight.  I still see the love handles and the belly, but they are retreating rather quickly now and when I wake up in the morning and step out of bed, I sometimes have to pinch myself to realize that the thin and slender body is mine.  No longer do I look in the mirror and shy away from the view.  I now feel as if I have more energy.  BodyBugg has not only extended my life, it has improved every single aspect of that life.  I once again feel thrilled to be alive and it amazes me how much easier it is to jog now that I carry 76 pounds less of fat.

BodyBugg has been amazing but in the same moment of exhilaration I want you to be grounded in the realization that despite all I have written above, the act of losing weight was not BECAUSE of BodyBugg, it was because of me and the actions that I did or did not do.  BodyBugg just provided the facts to me and those facts evolved over a brief period of time to educate me in a way that has changed my life.  If you too desperately are seeking a way to take control of your life I implore you to check out BodyBugg because it is by far one of the most singular choices I have ever made that has changed my life, for the duration of my life.  You can do it too if you are ready to make changes in your life and forgive yourself when you screw up.

I have discovered that losing weight is a series of decisions that pile up over time and those decisions are basically what BodyBugg puts into the full spectrum of your reality.  With BodyBugg you will know that your choices are either good or whether those choices are bad.  The real question should not be whether or not BodyBugg works, but should rather be whether or not you are ready to really lose weight once BodyBugg gives you the information it provides.  That choice has been, and always will be your choice.

I Choose Thin…What do you choose?