

I hope this doesn’t come as a surprise, but I recommend nutrition tracking. If you need a shopping list, the X3 list is great! What does Coach Wayne Recommend for P90X3? Using the food lists as your shopping list will have you eating tons of great, healthy, whole foods. Food choices are ranked from healthy to healthiest as you choose from any macronutrient group. There are guides to use measuring cups as well. I don’t know about you, but if something really good was set on the table for dinner my hand would get really large LOL. Part of intuitive eating appears to start with training yourself to estimate portion sizes of food based on your hand. The P90X3 nutrition guide is the portion plan. Fat Shredder would still be on my first choice. For more of a discussion on why protein is so important, click here. That will allow you to maintain and build muscle as you cut.

Especially if you will be at a deficit, I would encourage you to increase your percentage of protein. If you follow the guidebook, you’ll be roughly following 30P/40C/30F. There’s no real talk of macronutrient breakdowns in the P90X3 nutrition guide. I just know from experience that that will generate more of the results you desire over your round of P90X3.

You don’t need to go take another 500 calories off the goal, but if you’re trying to lose weight I would suggest removing an extra 200 calories from what the P90X 3 nutrition guide recommends. I think for many people trying to lose weight, P90X3 will set your calorie goal a little too high. I don’t doubt Beachbody or the work that has gone into this nutrition guide, but I also have a lot of teamRIPPED data that is shaped my view of calorie goals. From that sum you’re given a calorie plan to follow. Here you add points based on your gender, weight, activity level, and body composition goal. There are no fancy formulas for calculating your caloric need in P90X3. Back to the P90X3 Nutrition Guide… Calorie Goals It takes guesswork out and allows you to be very logical and analytical (but more on this later).

It is the absolute most precise way to monitor how what you’re eating is affecting your results. That has allowed me to become more of an “intuitive eater” today, but whenever I want to switch from maintenance to get really ripped, I go back to nutritional tracking. I had to retrain myself through precise nutrition tracking. If I were to have attempted intuitive eating from the start, I don’t think I would’ve been as successful as I was. I know for me, my intuitive eating style is to be an over-eater. He doesn’t ponder what his calorie needs are.” P90X3 is trying to have you become an “intuitive eater.” They describe this as “the ability to listen to your body so that you make the right decisions nutritionally.” While this sounds attractive, I think it can be dangerous for most people, especially those starting out. Right away the guide tells you, “Tony doesn’t use calculators. With the P90X3 nutrition guide, Tony is really trying to give you a picture of how he does nutrition and encourage you to approach your nutrition in the same way. P90X3 comes with only one guide book… so if you think you are missing your P90X3 nutrition guide, flip it over LOL!
