Planning meals on mobile

The hi.fitness mobile app plans your week one day at a time. Open More → Nutrition plan and you get a strip of days across the top, Monday to Sunday, with that day's meals as cards underneath. Everything you change is saved automatically - there is no Save button to remember.

Starting a plan

If you have no plan yet, a card sits under the day strip offering to build one:

• Generate your meal plan - answer a couple of questions and the app builds a week of meals around your daily calorie and macro goal. It is the quickest way in, and the ✨ button in the top corner repeats the offer once you have a plan (generating again replaces the plan you are on).
• Choose a ready meal plan - browse the hi.fitness library, preview a plan day by day, and add it with one tap.
• Build your own week - start empty. Your plan begins with four meal slots (Meal 1-4) you can rename and rearrange later.

Your week, day by day

The plan is seven days, Monday to Sunday, and it repeats every week - so the dates on the strip are simply a way of naming the days. Tap a day or swipe the strip and the meals below change to that day's; today is marked. A day with nothing on it says so, and that card is the way to put the first meal on it.

Adding meals

Tap Add to this day under the day's meals (or the card on an empty day). Pick which meal of the day you are filling with the slot chips at the top, then search recipes - your own come first, followed by the hi.fitness catalog. Tap a recipe's name to read it first; tap the arrow to add it.

Each slot holds one meal per day, so adding into a taken slot replaces what was there - the app always asks first.

If a search comes up empty, the search text becomes an offer: Create "..." opens the recipe editor so you can build the dish from ingredients on the spot. Recipes you create this way land in your own recipe library for reuse.

Reading a meal, and swapping it

Tap a meal card and the dish opens the way it does in the Calories tab: its photograph, what it is worth, what is in it, and how it is made.

Foods that come in pieces - eggs, bread slices, tortillas, rice cakes - are always planned in whole pieces. When a portion is scaled up or down, such an ingredient reads e.g. 2 pcs (116 g) instead of half an egg, and the meal's calories are counted from what actually lands on the plate.

Two buttons sit in the top corner of that card:

• Replace opens the recipe picker for that meal's slot. What you choose takes its place in the plan on this day - and since the plan repeats, that is your week changing, not just today's food.
• Edit opens the recipe editor, where you can add or remove ingredients and adjust amounts; the calorie count updates as you type.

Editing a shared recipe never changes the original: the app quietly makes a private copy just for your plan.

Rearranging your week

Press and hold a meal card for its actions: replace it, rename it or set its time, move it to another day, change its meal slot, duplicate it to a free day, or remove it.

Meal slots, the link under the day's meals, is where the slots themselves are added, renamed and removed - the breakfast / lunch / snack shape your whole week is built on.

Coach plans and other devices

A plan your coach assigned opens in the same screen. Date-based (calendar) plans line up with the real dates on the strip.

Your plan syncs with the web app and the Calories tab's meal suggestions. If the plan changes somewhere else while you have unsaved edits on your phone, the app asks which version to keep instead of overwriting either one silently. Changes made offline are saved on your phone and sent as soon as you are back online.

Your shopping list

More → Shopping list turns your plan into a list of things to buy. The calendar button in the header picks the range - today, tomorrow, 7 days, 30 days, or your own dates - and the app adds up every ingredient the plan schedules in that window, grouped by aisle: dairy, vegetables, meat, and so on. The range you are looking at is written on that button, so you can always see which window the list covers.

Amounts are summed across recipes, so oats in three breakfasts appear once. Where a food is normally bought by the piece you get both readings - "6 pcs · 360 g".

Tap a line to cross it off as you put it in the basket - it drops to the bottom of its group, so what is still to buy stays at the top. The count at the top tracks how far you are, Hide picked up takes the crossed-off lines off the screen entirely, and Clear empties the ticks for the next trip. Ticks are kept on your phone, so they work with no signal in the shop and are not shared with your coach. If nothing is ticked for 12 hours the list clears itself and says so, and the next trip starts from a clean list.

Your own items. Not everything in the trolley comes from a meal plan. Tap Add your own item above the list, type what you need, and it appears in an Own group at the top. Own items are kept on your phone only - they are not part of your plan, and nobody else sees them. Unlike ticks they do not expire: a line stays until you remove it, and you remove it by swiping the line to the left. They cross off like any other line and count toward the progress at the top.

The share button in the header sends the list as plain text - to Notes, to a message, to whoever is doing the shopping.

On your Apple Watch

The same list is on your wrist: open hi.fitness on the Watch and tap Shopping list. You get the same date ranges along the top, the same aisle groups, and the same lines - tap one to cross it off with your phone still in your pocket.

Ticks are shared with your phone, so a line crossed off on either device is crossed off on both. Changing the range on the Watch changes it on your phone too, and needs your phone to be in range, since the list is rebuilt for the new dates. The list itself is kept on the Watch, so it is there in the shop even with no signal. Crossing a line off drops it to the bottom of its group here too, Hide picked up and Clear sit at the end of the list, and the same 12-hour reset applies.