I wanted to ask about this for awhile but never got around to it. To quote @dreev:
In general, we need two daily metrics: one to measure your objective and one to measure what you’re doing to achieve it. The first we call your gauge and the second we call your dial.
So for weight loss, I would use my weight as my gauge and something like net calories as my dial.
The idea is that the strictness of your dial metric (adhering to some net calorie goal) is dependent on how well you’re doing in your gauge metric. So if your weight starts trending up toward the red line, you’d need to eat less/burn more to counter act.
The blog post seemed like a great idea and it was implemented in a spreadsheet, but I’m not sure how to set that up in beeminder.
It seems that the slope of the dial goal would need to change based on the current value of the guage goal. But that would definitely need to be automatic to not afoul of akrasic window, right?
Thanks!