I currently have a manual goal for ensuring I weigh in with FitBit. Each day I weigh myself, add my weight in the FitBit app, and then add a +1 to my Beeminder goal. I’d like to automate this such that I have to weigh in daily. I’m not currently interested in beeminding my weight directly. Is there a way to use the FitBit integration to automate this? Could I achieve this with a single goal, or would I need a zero-rate tracking goal and an additional metaminding goal? What would be the steps to set something like this up?
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Weight is one of the autodata metrics for our Fitbit integration:
So unless for some reason you actively don’t want a Beeminder graph of your weight at all (but probably this isn’t the case since presumably Fitbit shows you a weight graph of its own?) then I think the cleanest solution would be to make a Beeminder weight goal that it’s nigh impossible to derail on, a la primum non amplifico, and then make a metaminder goal that gets a +1 whenever Fitbit adds a weight datapoint to the weight goal.
(There are currently some mildly annoying things about using an autodata goal as a source goal for a meta goal but I predict the above will do the job and of course we’ll be grateful to hear if any of those “mildly annoying things” are actually dealbreakers.)
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You could maybe also set your aggay to non-zero?
That’s what I’ve done in the past for some of my mini-habit goals, where I didn’t care about the amount on each day, only about it not being nothing.
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@mary Right, smart! Alas, I’ve already set up the meta goal, and it is a good excuse to play with the new metaminding feature. 
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Yeah it’s a very cool feature. I really want to dive in and try a thousand things with it.
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