Everyone is different. Giving one exact diet to follow is similar wearing a “one size fits all T-shirt”. Besides looking horrible, which they do, these T-shirts don’t really fit anyone. They are just a rough estimation. We can do better. Everyone is genetically different and metabolizes food differently. We have different health concerns. We also like different foods. It’s not that hard to design your own diet and it’s certainly worth the minimal effort. I’ve done most of the grunt work for you by researching and simplifying the latest in nutrition. I highly recommend reading this nutrition overview before jumping into designing your own diet.

The information here is centered around accomplishing all of the following goals:

• Increase energy
• Improve mood and self-confidence
• Lose body fat
• Prevent or help with all diseases including heart disease, cancer, allergies, etc
• Slow down or even reverse the aging process
• Attain desired amount of lean muscle mass
• Improve skin
• Alleviate anxiety and depression
• Get a more youthful and fantastic looking body (who honestly doesn’t want their body to look great?)

You really can accomplish all these things with one diet. A self-described “anti-aging” or “anti cancer” diet for example, is usually more of a marketing gimmick than anything else. It’s not that their advice is necessarily wrong, it’s just that we should be eating in a way that accomplishes all of the above goals. For example, a healthy diet should be able to allow someone to have good skin as well as lower their odds of getting cancer. There will probably be some exceptions, but generally this is how it works.

Let’s begin with an understanding of the 3 macro nutrients. These are the large molecules that make up most of what we eat. They are:

• Carbohydrates
• Proteins
• Fats