# Using Your Square Bolus **URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/using-your-square-bolus/1556 **Category:** New T1/LADA **Created:** [August 11, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/using-your-square-bolus/1556 "2017-08-11T01:06:00Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 30
### Author: ![Eric](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/eric/32/9209_2.png) [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric) #### Post date: [August 11, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/using-your-square-bolus/1556/30 "2017-08-11T22:16:41Z")
> [@daisymae](#): > > how do you do it? When it comes to food and insulin, I just use the force. What is my BG, which direction is my BG going, how quickly am I going up or down, how much insulin is left in me, how active have I been, what kind of food is it, how have I been responding to insulin today, how long before I eat, will I have food available to cover a low later, what is for dessert, how hungry am I, how do I want to space my bolus for timing, what would my pancreas do it it was working correctly, how slow is this dang waitress at the restaurant… As I have shared with you before, bolus calculators don’t look at things like that! The best bolus calculator DM has, is the one sitting on her neck. 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/using-your-square-bolus/1556)._