90 days complete! Second round coming up!

If you would, elaborate on your diet throughout these 90 days. Impressive results.

Thanks Alex

Sure. I pretty much followed the nutrition guide provided in P90X.

1st month: I wanted to shed some fat so I pretty much ate at a calorie deficit for a maximum for 4 weeks. My recommended calorie intake based on my height, age, sex, weight worked out to around 2300cal/day (but I was eating 1800cal/day). Of that 1800, my portion was split to 50% protein/30% carbs/20% fat. I stayed away from foods that were processed and came out of a bag/can/package. So I pretty much ate whole foods and cooked all my meals. Majority of my protein came from lean meats (mostly fish, chicken breasts, turkey, lean beef) and lots of beans, vegetables (lots of broccoli, kale, spinach, green beans), carbs (whole grains, quinoa, brown rice, wild rice), fruits, fats (most of them coming from fish and nuts). It was tedious and a lot of work at first but I got in the hang of it when I would make a bigger batch in advance and put them in tupperware containers for the week. So I did this for about 4 weeks for phase 1 of P90X and started to increase my calorie intake a bit more because I was down to about 9-10% body fat...

2nd & 3rd month: When phase 2 hit, I increase my calorie intake from 1800 to about 2400 calories. The portion also changed to
40% carb/40% protein/20% fat because I wanted to put on some muscle mass and I would also find myself burnt out right after the workouts. I also started to incorporate protein shakes and creatine monohydrate for this as well. The harder I was working, the more I found myself hungrier and getting burnt out so I continued to increase my uptake to a point where I now eat at 3000 calories. My nutrition hasn't changed very much from the beginning.

I pretty much stayed away from processed sugar like candy, pop, cookies and also fast food.
What I found really helpful starting out was referring to a table called Michi's ladder from Beachbody (http://www.teambeachbody.com/eat-smart/michis-ladder). I was very strict with my nutrition and only ate foods from tier 1 and tier 2 (only 1 from tier 3 which is the almond milk...I was never really a dairy person).

But that's pretty much it. I ate the foods that I can pronounce on my plate and followed the workout schedule for P90X!