The beginning (again)

After a year of considering getting a BodyBugg, I finally got one. I'm a cheap bastard and when they released the new black model, it made the old gray ones really cheap on eBay. Got one for $149 (which included a 6 month membership to the website).

I've been very surprised by how helpful it is. The biggest thing is that it keeps your mind on the task at hand. It's a constant reminder. Every time I would start a diet or excercise program, after a couple weeks it would seem like it was taking forever to see any results. But the BodyBugg is charting it out day by day, so you can see that actual time you've put in and your effort (or lack of effort), and pinpoint the problem instead of developing a feeling like nothing works.

I've been wearing it for almost 3 weeks now (I think the first day was 10/21/09). I had already started dieting for about 10 days before and dropped 9 lbs, so the easy "beginning/water" weight was already off. I've lost another 15 lbs since starting with the BodyBugg (averaging 5 lbs a week).

I always lean towards doing things over the top, I can't go the slow route. If someone told me they had a program that was really easy and I would lose a pound a week for a year, I wouldn't bother doing it. That's just me. I need to be able to go after something and see results now. It's probably not the best way to go about things, but it's the only way for me. That was the problem I've had with any programs in the past (like Jenny Craig), they always wanted to meet with you and set small goals each week. I could never get interested in those small goals.

In that regard, BodyBugg is perfect for me. It is just a measuring device. If you want to destroy yourself with a crazy workout and diet program, it will just track you body's output the whole way. And that's what I need.

For the 3 weeks I've been using it, I've kept to about 1,500 to 1,700 calories a day. Buring 4,200 to 4,800 per day. Going to the gym for 30 minutes in the morning on the way to work and another 1 - 1.5 hours at night. I'd like to start riding my bike everywhere as a way of getting in additional calories burned, but I'm still too heavy to do that (the bike seat destroys my ass. I've researched different solutions and tried 3 different seats, no luck). I rode to and from work once (about 20 miles round trip) and I couldn't sit down right for a week.

I've been using the BodyBugg website daily, and neglecting to update this one, so I thought I'd summerize what's been going on. I'll start updating this at least once a week to have a record of my progress.

-Mike