Goals that support Weight loss...what are yours and how do you track them?

[adamwolf]

Hi!

1. The most serious impediment to my weight loss using Beeminder was not weighing in after I had a good streak, and then being scared to weigh in for days and days and days.

I wrote about a solution here:

Nifty trick for "days I did this other goal" goals

I find that a few of my goals come in multiples. A good example is weight loss. I have a weight_loss goal, which is about as bog-standard as a goal comes on Beeminder. Twice, on my weight loss goal, I hit a good milestone, went out to eat, was scared of weighing in the next day, and then ended up waiting 2 weeks to weigh in, eating up my safety margin from my last “good” datapoint. Ugh. I realized I needed a “weighed in days” goal. This goal counts the number of days I weigh in. I was able…

Doing it completely automatically requires a premium account, but you can do it manually without one.

2. Early on in my weight loss on Beeminder, I had a variety of goals like “eat at a restaurant < 2 times per week” and (this sounds weird) “eat french fries < 3 times per week”.

Let us know if you need any tips setting up specific goals–there’s some meganerds who are pretty helpful here on the forums.