Plonk Down $250 To Monitor Exactly How Many Calories You Burn Traveling

September 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM | by Omri | Comments (0)

Ancient nutritionists who roamed the savanah eons ago discovered a mathematical formula for losing weight: eat less calories than you burn. A few million years later, their descendants amended the formula: eat less calories than you burn, but don't assume you're burning much more than 2,000 calories per day because you're not. If the average person exercises really hard they can bump their calorie burning from 2,000 to 2,500 per day - roughly one extra soft drink with dinner. So mostly the magic secret to weight lose is to stop counting calories and just change your diet.

Or, alternatively, you could pay $250 for the bodybugg State-of-the-Art Calorie Management System, a web-enabled wristband that uses specialized sensors to monitor how many calories you're burning to 90% accuracy. It's a sedentary traveler's ultimate health device. Now you can know whether you burned 1,000 calories sitting on the plane or 1,010 calories, plus/minus 100 calories.

The bodybugg monitors your overall motion, your steps, your skin's galvanic condition and temperature, and your body's overall heat flux. The result is a probably mostly right figure describing whether it's safe to supersize your drive thru. The current offer even includes a 45-minute phone coaching session and a six month trial of their web-based calorie consumption manager.

Where this device really shines is when you're on the road. The bodybugg enables you—the exact phrase from the press release is "armed with the 'bugg,' travelers can"—to do the following:

Stop that plane! � Pretend you�re late for a flight and take a few speed-walk laps around the terminal while waiting for your flight (Extra points for weaving past the slow movers!)
Escape from Alcatraz � Only two treadmills and one stair climber in the resort gym? Who needs it � get outside those four walls with the �bugg� and accomplish your workout goals while enjoying the outdoors on vacation
Get roadside assistance � Struggling on the road or tempted by fast food? With the �bugg,� you can call a coach for a few tips and some words of wisdom.

For only $250, this device allows you to leave your hotel room. You can't put a price on that! And for a limited time they'll even throw in a free armband, maximum 3 per customer. How many arms do you have again?

[Photo: 24 Fitness]

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