How Bolus works: the weekly loop
Bolus runs on a weekly rhythm. Instead of planning every meal from scratch, you get a week at a time, shop for it, eat through it, and tell Bolus how it went. The next week is shaped by the last. That loop is the whole idea.
The four steps
Get a week. At the start of each week, Bolus gives you a plan built around what you like to eat and what tends to work for you. You do not build it yourself. It lives in the Food tab, under Plan. See what a week looks like in Bolus.
Shop for it. The plan comes with a shopping list, grouped by aisle so it is quick to get through in one trip or one online order. It is the other half of the Food tab, under Shopping list. See how your shopping list works.
Eat through the week. Today is the meal in front of you: cook it, mark it as eaten, or say you are doing something else. If a night gets busy or you do not fancy something, you can swap it, skip it, or scale the portions. See what the Today tab shows.
Review. A couple of days before the week ends, Bolus walks you through what happened, meal by meal, then builds next week from it. See what the weekly review is.
Then the loop starts again, with the next week nudged towards what worked and away from what did not.
Bolus is not a medical device and does not give insulin dosing guidance. It is a healthy eating programme that helps you plan and shop for food. Keep making your own dosing and treatment decisions the way you normally would.
What sits alongside it
The loop is the programme. Two more tabs reflect it back to you, and neither asks anything of you:
- Insights looks backwards at the week: your glucose if you have connected a monitor, the quality of what you ate, and your weight. See what the Insights tab shows.
- Exercise shows the movement your iPhone and Watch already record. See what the Exercise tab shows.
Emily, the AI coach on the last tab, is the one part that talks back. She knows your week and helps you pick a next step. She is part of Bolus Premium; the loop above is free. See what is free and what is Premium.
Why weekly
Deciding what to eat is the part that wears people down, day after day. Handling it once a week, and letting the plan improve on its own, means less to think about and fewer decisions when you are tired or busy.
You are not locked in. Every week is a starting point you can change, and nothing you swap or skip is wasted, because it all feeds back into the next one.