How can I found a simple way to count how much nutrients I need? There is the simple old fashioned way: the plate you use for your meal has to contain 50% carbs and 50% proteins like meat so if the space from your plate is occupied half by meat and half by rice you enjoy a good healthy meal. The meat will have those 10% of fats you need so you won't have to add any other fats. Muscular mass is the main goal bodybuilders have and body fat is their enemy. What is the point in having muscles if all that fat covers them? You will say that it doesn't matter if you have muscles but think about how much that fat slows you down, not to mention the damage it does to your body. The excess calories are transformed in fats and deposited as those unaesthetic fat tissues. It doesn't help if you eat less because if you want to lose your fat you have to reduce your carbohydrates during the day and eliminate them from your dinner. This way the proportion between muscles and fat won't change. The idea is to keep your muscles but lose your fat. 

You need understand and learn how to manipulate your food in order to get the most benefits out of it: you have to know the proteins, carbs and fats from everything you eat. Carbs don't have to be completely taken out from your meals because they are the most important source of energy. To keep your muscles healthy you need to maintain a high protein level but you also have to remember that everyone is made differently so what works for some can't work for you and the other way around; you will have to test different types of food before knowing which is best for your diet. Lack of food is as bad as too much food. It is impossible to build muscles if you don't get all the nutrients you need. Proteins, carbohydrates and fats are very important for our body. It is essential to combine those in order to obtain what you want. Eat natural and avoid sugar and saturated fats. To keep up with your body's need you have to eat a lot of food; a lot of food helps you to sustain your body's energetic level and your muscular grow.

The best bodybuilders keep a diary where they write everything they ate a certain day. I know you find that girlish but you have to write about what you ate not about what boy/girl turned you down at the prom. A diary helps you to keep track of your results. You can make adjustments to your diet based on this diary. A complete diet diary has to contain information about the hours when you eat, the types of food, the calories and the type of nutritive supplements you take. It won't take you more than 5 minutes to do this every night before going to bed. You also need to drink a large quantity of water each day during and between your meals. Avoid soda and alcohol and don't exaggerate with coffee because it has a strong diuretic effect. Our body contains 67% water which is necessary in a lot of biological processes of vital importance. Don't make the big mistake and drink insufficient water. At least 10 glasses of water are necessary every day. Excess sugar is transformed in fats; an aliment can be low in fats but rich in sugar. Don't make the mistake of letting yourself fooled by the products which are low in fats but have an enormous quantity of sugar. Drinks and protein bars which have a good quality have to be poor in sugar.

Fats give you the most calories but unfortunately these are very hard to digest so your body prefers depositing them as fat tissue. Do remember that you need a limited amount of fat to make sure that your brain functions well. If you don't need your brain, just stop eating fats! (Just kidding!) In food like meat, milk, eggs and fish there are enough fats and you will not have to consume any fat separately if you eat those products. To be a successful bodybuilder you need to suitable prepare your food. It is not a very comfortable thing and that is why many of us don't like to cook. Usually the healthy and natural meal is not so difficult to prepare but you have to find ways not to get bored by your beef, chicken and boiled eggs. You will find many recipes on the internet which can help you prepare delicious meals.

To repair and grow muscles our body needs proteins. Because proteins and fats are often found in the same products avoid food high in fat because it can raise your cholesterol and damage your arteries. Find products with many proteins but fewer fats like turkey, beef, fish and low fat dairy products. Even if the food is very important in a bodybuilder's life supplements are very helpful. All elite bodybuilder's use them. A high quality protein drink with some vitamin supplements can make wonders and raise the energetic level of your practice. All the professional bodybuilders say that diet means 60% and practice means 40% because you only stay an hour or two at the gym but you have to eat every day. Because you have to eat everyday at the same interval of 2 hours you will need to give full attention to your diet, otherwise all is lost.