Yep, diet is key. So is sleep. You gotta keep enough fuel in the engine. My advice would be to try to log both your sleeping hours per night as well as calories and protein intake. And while you're at it I would also throw in your cardio hours. That's 4 columns to keep track of per day, so it won't take long.
You'll probably have a time of it taking in enough good nutritious food to get sufficient calories for a 3000* calorie/200 gm protein per day program. So throw in a protein shake in between meals. At 3k calories per day you should be able to up your workouts and go for more intensity. At 3500 calories per day you'll probably have even more energy for balls-to-the-wall all-out fighting. And that's where you want your body to get used to being. If you go into competitive training you may have to get above 5000 calories per day, at that level you really will have a conflict between recovery time for weights and recovery time for cardio. But I'm not convinced you're anywhere near that.
Don't obsess about your weight though because gaining muscle takes a long time once you're on the right program. Logging your weight once or twice a month should be okay.
*This number varies based on individual. Once your body gets used to a higher level of calories you'll know when you don't take in enough fuel because you'll feel lousy.
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