Thanks for asking the question! I’m keen to hear the answers.
Many people get fixated on the weighing and neglect creating the supporting goals that will help move the outcome in the right direction. Complex outcomes like this always seem to benefit from being minded from several directions.
Here’s my list of weight-related Beeminder goals:
- a weight goal with an sustainable slope (~0.5% per week)
- a flex goal to encourage stretching
- a general ‘get sweaty’ goal that doesn’t care whether it was dancing or running or whatever
- a gamut of autodata goals: fitbit, runkeeper, etc. that mostly exist to feed the ‘sweat’ goal
- an eat-at-home goal, which tends to be healthier than when I eat out