I have lost 33.4 pounds since getting my BB on Aug. 11. That is even with being not really on plan during the holidays and being sick twice (piggy flu and then bronchitis and a sinus infection) and not able to eat properly or workout much while sick.

While I will allow myself to have more than a 1,000 calorie deficit, sometimes up to 2,000, I have learned I have to be careful about it. I never eat below my own personal minimum calories or I get a horrible calorie burn the next day. I also never allow the high deficits for more than 2 (3 at most but that has only been a couple times) days in a row - I did more than that in a row before and sent myself into what must have been starvation mode. I get my best losses with the deficit juggling. So if you don't want to eat that much every day then you might try upping your calories only every other day or every third day and just let the deficit be larger on the days you don't up the calories in.

carly, are you opposed to the bodybugg? Do you have a Costco membership? costco has the bodybugg for $179 with 12 month subscription.
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product...=13&lang=en-US

Amazon has the GWF for 179 but it looks like it comes without the membership.

http://www.amazon.com/GoWear-Lifesty...4695839&sr=8-1

I second the Costco deal. One caveat being that the deal expires on 1/31/10 so you'd have to order by Sunday.

Mulder, it's so hard to think that I can eat 2,000 calories a day and still lose weight. Yesterday, I ate around 1,500 calories (which is actually higher than normal for me but I had a luncheon to go to), but at the end of the day according to GWF I burned 3,038. When I weighed myself this morning I was actually up 1 pound for yesterday (yes I know I have to get over my daily weigh-in habit but I only count Wednesday's as my official weigh-in).

Anyway, I will continue to track my calories burned for a week with my normal schedule and see what the daily average is.

Aww shucks, thanks! And with the lost you have experienced so far with GWF you will be there before you know it. I just wish I had this earlier and I could have been at goal weight since November! But with all of my guestimating I was really losing an average of a 1 pound a week for most of last year :^:

FitGirlyGirl - I think you are absolutely right. I have been staying around 1400 cals per day on average for the last three months with like a toal of 2 pounds lost. Essentially I am on a 12-week plateau. I have been upping my activity level but keeping calories constant, but the scale keeps fighting me. Yesterday, was actually an 'easy' day for me workout wise and I still burned 3,000+ yet I ate 1,500 and the scale this morning crept upward. Today is my interval running day which will give me a total of 5 miles ran (I ran around 20-25 miles a week). So now I am starting to wonder if I have truly pushed my body in starvation mode. Yet, you always here of eating 1200-1400 calories to lose weight. I just can't imagine eating more and losing weight, but at this point something has got to give. I will re-assess after I complete my first week with GWF. Thanks for sharing your experience though!

*********CHALLENGE ALERT**********
O-M-G! I am so annoyed! I posted a long post before about a GWF/BB challenge, and obviously it never got posted to the board ARGH!

I am proposing we do a GWF/BB challenge. We can either do a 90-day challenge or summer challenge (so the end date would be May 31st for instance). At the start of the challenge we will all post our weight loss goal, and then on a weekly basis we will post our (1) weekly cals burned; (2) weekly cals consumed; (3) cumulative % of goal accomplishment. So for number 3, if you lost 2 pounds after the first check-in date, and your goal weight loss was 10 pounds then your cumulative % of goal accomplishment would be 20% (simply put: current weight loss/goal weight loss). This way it doesn't matter if your goal is 10 or 20 pounds, it'll all be about how close we get to our individual goals. If you all want we could also take our weekly deficit, divide it by 3500 and compare our weekly target weight loss per GWF/BB versus our weekly actual weight loss for the week.

So it'd look something like this:

Deana
Weekly Calories Burned: 19,600
Weekly Calories Consumed: 10,500
Target Weekly Weight Loss: 2.6 pounds
Actual Weekly Weight Loss: 2.2 pounds
% of Goal: 22% (assuming my goal was to lose 10 pounds)

Now obviously I made all those numbers up, but that's what I have in mind. I also think we should weigh-in Tuesday or Wednesday to give our bodies time to adjust from the weekend changes.
So, is any one interested? I think it'd be fun! Hopefully we can get our goals logged by Monday and then do our first check-in Tuesday (Feb 9th).

No Im not opposed to BB I just saw that they were always more expensive then the GWF but since this BB comes with a 12 month subscription Im gonna buy it. I will have to wait til Sunday though because payday is Monday but sometimes they put the money in at 10pm the day before but Im definitely gonna hop on this deal. Thanks again also does BB have the sleep setting thingy? Im not sure what its called but will it work if I sleep in it? I know the GWF can count how many cals you burn while you sleep. Is this price for people with a membership only? or can anyone buy it at this price? I don't have a membership. Also do they sell these in stores?

BB does work while you sleep, but it does not do the sleep analysis like the GWF.

Also I will guess that either the BB or the GWF will have a sale again in the near future.

Okay thanks. I can't wait till the next sale Im so impatient and I want it NOW lol. Plus everyone is gonna get income taxes soon and the GWF and BB will probably be full price. Im gonna order it Sunday and it will probably take a week to get here

I will try and keep any sales I see on either one posted here so those concidering can get a good price! if you see a sale please post it for others as well...

happy losing!

I'd be up for that! My weigh-in day is Wednesday. I want to lose 23 pounds by June 1st. So this would work right in with that.

I sleep with my BB every night. It doesn't have a sleep chart like the GWF, but it tracks my burn through the night.

I was told that you can buy the bugg from Costco for $9 more if you are not a member. So it's still a deal if that's the case. They do not sell these in Costco stores, online only.