At first, this struck me as a whole lot of exercise for a pretty modest degree of weight loss.  Many of the patient’s that I see on a daily basis get far less exercise than that.  And (unfortunately) we see the results on a daily basis.

I began thinking, wouldn’t it be fantastic if we as a medical community made a push to really educate patients regarding how much is required to over come obesity with lifestyle changes. 

In digging through the article, I noticed that the authors used an electronic sensor to monitor how many calories the patient’s were burning each day.  I figured it would be great to test out this monitor in a pilot program in some of the postpartum (post delivery) patients that I see in the office.

I contacted the makers of the particular sensor (BodyMedia and SenseWear) but to date, I have not gotten a response.

The bodybugg ( http://www.bodybugg.com/) looks like the same kind of device.

Here is a Youtube video.

BodyBugg on Youtube

I will check it out and report back.