Alright so let's talk a little about nutrition and diets. Diet doesn't necessarily refer to eating less or eating to lose weight; instead, the term diet refers to YOUR eating regime and style throughout the day. Therefore, it is your specific eating style. Further, your diet alone is a HUGE factor in achieving your goals. So how do you decide your diet or what you need to eat. Well we are gonna try and help you with that as best as possible. The easiest way is to use a dieting regime based on your individual characteristics and specific goals. 

Nutrition is key to making any improvements or changes. Sorta cliche, but without proper nutrition, you are severely limiting progress. In order to understand proper nutrition, it is important to focus on a diet plan. Again, diet does not refer to a "weight loss plan", but rather it defines a 'style' of eating. Digging a little deeper into diets, focus needs be paid to what makes up the style of a diet. The answer is macros. Macronutrients (macros)  refer to Fat, Carbohydrate, and Protein amounts and percentages. Almost every diet has been created by manipulating these in some way. I point this out to show that macros are in fact the basis of any diet, and the significance they serve in YOUR diet and in nutrition. Notice above that I didn't talk about calories. Macros can be adjusted to meet any caloric needs.  There are 9 calories for every gram of fat, 4 calories for every gram of carbohydrate, and 4 calories for every gram of protein.  The amount of calories you should consume depends on your goals as mentioned above: gaining, maintaining, or losing. Based on this, a rough estimate as to how many calories should be consumed daily is quite easily calculated (even easier using the calculators I've provided). This topic will be covered in each category's diet plan.