Can I get rid of extra safety buffer?

Yes you can!

First, think about whether or not you've already entered data for the day, to make sure that you don't accidentally set yourself up for failure. It's not great to remove all the safety buffer on your calories goal right before logging your big birthday dinner, and it's not great to remove all your safety buffer after you logged your 8-mile run! 

If you do accidentally back yourself into a beemergency day corner, contact support and we can undo your adjustment. The feedback is really helpful for us when something wasn't clear, too, so don't hesitate to let us know something went wrong.

You can check how many days you have until you derail in the ratchet section. Then, in the Ratchet section of the Commitment tab below the graph on the goal page, pick the number of safe days you'd like to end up with, and click Ratchet! to save changes.

In the example above, I have 6 days of safety. I've entered 0, so once I click "Ratchet!" I'll have 0 days of safety. My goal will be in the red and I'll need to add data today.

Automatic buffer removal

If you're a Bee Plus or Beemium subscriber, you also have access to an automatic ratchet tool, right underneath this field. To enable auto-ratchet, check the Automatically cap safety buffer box next to Auto-Ratchet, then select the highest safe days you want to allow yourself on this goal.

Every day at your goal's deadline, Beeminder will check the number of safe days on the goal and remove extra safety buffer if necessary. With the setting shown above, if I ever have more than 1 safe days at my deadline, Beeminder will adjust my graph automatically to remove the extra so that I only have 1.

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