What are you eating for

When we say we want to change our eating habits we need to ask ourselves, What are we eating for? For performance? health? or aesthetics? (appearance). Because each of these needs have completely different diets, and based on your needs you'll have to plan what type of food goes in your body.

Health Eating healthy would primarily mean you want to have energy through out the day and maybe live longer. what do you need  to do for this? The food you eat should be quality over quantity, basically focus on how good  the food is for your body over how much you're eating. Things like nutrient dense foods, Limit empty processed food, eat the rainbow, high quality proteins and maintain caloric balance.

Aesthetics Now aesthetics is the complete opposite, here we focus on quantity over quality. If your only focus is looks then all you have to focus is on calorie intake according to your goal. For example if your goal is to lose weight than you simply have to take less calories than you burn and vice versa. This can also be achieved by eating just junk food chocolate, burgers, fried chicken etc, but it doesn't mean it's necessarily healthy. Another thing for aesthetics is Macro-nutrients, Carbs Proteins and Fat ratios. If you intend to gain muscle then you'll primarily be focusing on eating high protein and carbs and low fat, for weight loss it's high protein and low carbs and fat. So basically just focus on the Quantity. 

Performance Is all about fuelling right and recovering right. Nutrient timing, focusing on eating the right foods at the right time. For example eating more carbs before a game or eating good protein after a session or match. The other thing would be periodization, modifying the diet based on the nutrient intake in whatever part of the season. Like during the season increasing quickly digestive carbs and in the off-season reducing that. 

Now you can balance all of this by taking points from each of the categories. I don't think my writing gives all the information I got so if you want to know this stuff in more detail watch the video with the link down below (It's only 8 min long)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgZSFkPrk24