Many thanks for your response.

It’s complicated. I can’t get up to 70 grams of protein a day on three bowls of soup a day without bone broth and that’s the right level of protein I need given that my BMI is so low. I now weigh 97-98 pounds and when I first became intolerant of ordinary vegan solid food meals in October of 2023 and had to experiment with what would not cause me to spit up bright red blood, it was soups with carefully measured portions of ingredients so I could keep myself nourished. I know how much protein there is in every legume, whole grain, vegetable and fruit under the sun. I went down to 89 pounds and once I got in a groove where I could supplement with bone broth, which is clear, and one tb of nutritional yeast, I managed to get up to 98-99 pounds. I pour avocado or olive oil into my soups for calories, though I never had much oil in my diet. Last night I weighed 97. Yes, thanks to many plant-based eating summits I’ve attended, I got beyond my intolerance to tofu and beans. Dense tofu is now the mainstay of my protein consumption. I break up a slab of high protein tofu twice a day for my morning and evening soups. I have a half a cup of bean puree in my afternoon soup. I put 1/2 a cup of quinoa, millet or buckwheat in every bowl of soup and soak a piece of Ezekiel sprouted multi grain bread. No intolerance to wheat, luckily. And a cup of puree steamed vegetables. I only eat organic.

Avocados started creating excessive mucus. Now I dare not eat more than a slice at a time. I no longer can tolerate nuts, seeds, nut butters, which were a huge mainstay of my previous diet. They all give me a crazy amount of mucus, though none of this used to be the case. In short, I can no longer have an ordinary plate of food. I am just hoping that as I become further versed in airway clearance techniques this situation will change. I am also facing the newly-diagnosed MAC challenge so a lot to learn and integrate. Airway clearance is helping!

I have mild to moderate BE in both lungs, with worst in upper right lobe and second worse, middle right lobe. I have a history of devastating TB at age 19 contracted in India, and in 2012 had a massive hemoptysis that almost killed me. So I know my case is unusual.