Can I change my answers after onboarding?

Yes — Settings lets you update your unit preference, reset your goal, and manage your consents after onboarding. Some onboarding answers (like your starting measurements) are used to calculate goals once; use Settings to reset your goal from today’s weight if your situation has changed.

Why don’t I have a 5%/7% weight goal?

A weight-loss goal isn’t appropriate for every profile — this is expected for some starting situations, not an error. Activity and eating-pattern support remain fully usable either way.

Your Setup

Onboarding: setting up your program

A walkthrough of the short setup that personalizes your program — goal, situation, measurements, and safety questions.

What onboarding covers

Onboarding is a short, guided setup that personalizes your program. The current steps, in order, are:

1
Your goal
What brings you to Prediabetes.life? This sets the emphasis of your starting track.
2
Your situation
Which best describes where you are right now — used to set a realistic starting point.
3
Glucose tracking
How are you currently monitoring your glucose, if at all. This is about your current habits, not a diagnosis.
4
Your devices
Whether you use any fitness wearables today, so the app knows what kind of activity data you might want to log.
5
Your measurements
Height, weight, and waist measurement — these set your 5% and 7% weight goals where a weight goal is appropriate for you.
6
Risk factors & safety check
A few quick questions that personalize your risk-factor summary and keep the program safe for you — see the Safety Questions guide for details.
7
Reminders (optional)
Pick how often, if at all, you’d like reminders. You can skip this.
8
Privacy & data
A quick confirmation that your data stays private, ahead of the separate health-data consent step.

Onboarding step 1, "Your goal", asking what brings you to Prediabetes.life with six selectable options. — Step 1 of 9: Your goal.

Review: your risk-factor summary and weight goal

At the end of onboarding, a review screen summarizes your answers as a risk-factor summary — a plain-language recap, not a diagnosis.

Where a weight-loss goal is appropriate for your profile, the review also shows your 5% primary and 7% stretch weight targets, calculated from your starting measurements — these are the targets used in proven prevention programs.

Onboarding review screen "You're all set" showing goal, diabetes diagnosis, risk-factor summary, starter track, and 5%/7% weight goals. — Step 9 of 9: review screen with 5% and 7% weight targets.

Why don’t I have a weight goal?

Not every profile gets an automatic 5%/7% weight-loss goal, and that’s expected, not an error — a weight-loss goal isn’t medically appropriate for everyone (for example, some healthy-weight profiles). If yours doesn’t include one, you can still use activity and eating-pattern support fully; you can also log weight for your own reference without a numeric target attached.

If your safety answers suggested follow-up with a healthcare professional (for example, a diabetes-range lab value or “Not sure” to a diagnosis question), that follow-up suggestion is separate from the weight-goal question — one doesn’t imply the other, and neither means the app diagnosed you with anything.

Review screen without 5%/7% targets, showing goal, diabetes diagnosis, risk-factor summary, starter track, and weekly activity, plus a note that a weight-loss target isn't automatically assigned. — The review screen for a profile without an automatic weight goal.

Completing setup

A completion screen confirms setup is done and takes you to Today.

Setup complete — let's start your first week, with a first-week checklist and an Open Today's Prevention Plan button. — The setup-complete screen.

Frequently asked

Can I change my answers after onboarding?: Yes — Settings lets you update your unit preference, reset your goal, and manage your consents after onboarding. Some onboarding answers (like your starting measurements) are used to calculate goals once; use Settings to reset your goal from today’s weight if your situation has changed.
Why don’t I have a 5%/7% weight goal?: A weight-loss goal isn’t appropriate for every profile — this is expected for some starting situations, not an error. Activity and eating-pattern support remain fully usable either way.

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