And in case you're curious I am food charting to make sure I'm hitting 60-90 grams a day (some more , some less)
One day:
Two servings old fashioned oats, half an avocado mixed in, seasoned why Cajun spice. 12 grams of protein.
Wasabi peas (4 servings throughout the day) 20 grams of spicy protein.
BBQ lentils, corn chips, half an avocado. 25 grams of protein
Zoodles, red peppers and onions in tomato sauce over quinoa. 20 grams of protein.
Spicy curried sweet potatoes
Another day:
Coffee with cream
1 avacado on 2 pieces of toast, peanut butter and an apple. (15 grams of protein)
Tofu scramble w/ peppers and onions , salsa and corn chips. (22 grams of protein)
Mushroom / cauliflower sloppy joe (no bread), lentil pasta w/ chickpea dressing (20 grams of protein)
Wasabi peas (3 servings) 15 grams of protein.
Your "menu" consists of all the things I cannot eat. Except corn chips. I can eat a few of those. The "cannot" is because of SIBO, small intestine bacterial overgrowth. The likely causes of
that can include the DS, but
do include aging, and the use of PPI/H2's and opioids.
SOMETIMES, not you...not so far, proponents of a vegan lifestyle seem to consider their choices superior to the choices of others. And because of that, I may be just a tad defensive. So, just for the record, a vegan diet would render me housebound due to non-stop diarrhea, so...fuck the environment and the animals, too. It's a survival issue.
To be honest, while a nice salad
sounds great and would be a huge treat, I happen to REALLY LIKE things like ribeye and tri-tip and scrambled eggs and ham. They "cure" the diarrhea and can be found anywhere and allow me to be part of the human race, which unattended SIBO does not.
(I may be the only one here...now...with SIBO. But, given how many here use PPIs and H2 medications and maybe opioids, and have had gastric surgery and might some day be 70 years old, too...and I want them to recognize this issue sooner rather than later.)
Anyway,
@Stefanie S. ...do your best to get in the needed protein. But if you go vegan, you HAVE TO get FREQUENT labs. We do not recover easily or quickly from deficiencies. Don't let lifestyle OR inattentive doctors cause you to get irreparably ill.
Remember that having the DS without adopting the necessary diet, supplements and lab testing is suicide.