The Last Piece of the Puzzle – Diet Finally, you need to think about the final piece of the puzzle: the diet. Because whether you’re working out at home or in the gym, your diet is one of the MOST important factors for ensuring the maximum benefit from your training. Likewise, diet is crucial whether you want to lose weight or build muscle – though the strategy will change. Calories VS Carbs Unfortunately though, while diet is the same no matter where you’re training, it’s also not all that simple. Specifically, there is a lot of argument regarding diet, and views on the matter can broadly be split into two camps. On the one hand, you have the group that claims ‘a a calorie is a calorie. Their belief is that the only factor that matters when it comes to losing weight is the number of calories coming in and the number of calories going out. If you track all your calories, you then simply have to make sure that you burn off more than you consume and you’ll lose weight. This makes sense,