ADT & Diet: What are others generally eating in a day?

@guybe
Hi All,
I have been reading these diet stories and am still perplexed on my main issue--how to get enough protein?
Google says a 170-pound 72-year old active man should get "about 77 to 93 grams of protein per day...If he’s doing regular endurance or resistance exercise [I am], the target can be a bit higher, around 85 to 115 grams per day."
My problem is I am trying to keep on a whole food, plant based diet, or as I told my friend: "It's simple, anything you want to eat, you can't. No dairy, meat, eggs, or sugar." So good sources of large amounts of protein (eggs, yogurt, meat) are off the table, or at least minimized. When I look at labels for beans, flaxseed, nuts seeds, etc. I see mostly 5, 6, 8 grams of protein/serving. I just dont see how to get to 85 to 115 grams/day with these numbers. To be honest, I eat a lot of salmon and tuna and occasional skinless organic chicken, but even with those, meeting the targets seems a stretch. How do you all do it?

@guybe
Hi All,
I have been reading these diet stories and am still perplexed on my main issue--how to get enough protein?
Google says a 170-pound 72-year old active man should get "about 77 to 93 grams of protein per day...If he’s doing regular endurance or resistance exercise [I am], the target can be a bit higher, around 85 to 115 grams per day."
My problem is I am trying to keep on a whole food, plant based diet, or as I told my friend: "It's simple, anything you want to eat, you can't. No dairy, meat, eggs, or sugar." So good sources of large amounts of protein (eggs, yogurt, meat) are off the table, or at least minimized. When I look at labels for beans, flaxseed, nuts seeds, etc. I see mostly 5, 6, 8 grams of protein/serving. I just dont see how to get to 85 to 115 grams/day with these numbers. To be honest, I eat a lot of salmon and tuna and occasional skinless organic chicken, but even with those, meeting the targets seems a stretch. How do you all do it?

@guybe
Hi All,
I have been reading these diet stories and am still perplexed on my main issue--how to get enough protein?
Google says a 170-pound 72-year old active man should get "about 77 to 93 grams of protein per day...If he’s doing regular endurance or resistance exercise [I am], the target can be a bit higher, around 85 to 115 grams per day."
My problem is I am trying to keep on a whole food, plant based diet, or as I told my friend: "It's simple, anything you want to eat, you can't. No dairy, meat, eggs, or sugar." So good sources of large amounts of protein (eggs, yogurt, meat) are off the table, or at least minimized. When I look at labels for beans, flaxseed, nuts seeds, etc. I see mostly 5, 6, 8 grams of protein/serving. I just dont see how to get to 85 to 115 grams/day with these numbers. To be honest, I eat a lot of salmon and tuna and occasional skinless organic chicken, but even with those, meeting the targets seems a stretch. How do you all do it?

I know that this an old tread, I hope your husband is doing well, I will tell you about what I eat, once I was diagnosed with metastatic PC Gleason 9 I realized that meds alone was not sufficient, so I read everything I could get my hands on, studies done, video from PCC Prostate cancer center, and a lot of studies specifically the one done by the university of San Francisco, indicated that a diet based on whole food mainly plant based, lots of fruits and vegetables, low fat and high fiber was promising. So I went from Paleo to vegan overnight, and now I follow a semi a low fat vegan diet but I incorporate salmon once a week, you said breakfast was your husband issue, as for me was not what I liked or disliked it’s all about what do I have to do to get my health back, I’m 74 for now and my breakfast is simple, oatmeal not too much, 1 scoop of organic pea protein, 2 tablespoons of Sacha incha ( protein) 2 tablespoons of hemp seeds, 1 tablespoon of psyllium, 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon of 7 mushrooms powder, 2 tablespoons of nutritional yeast, 1 scoop of egg shell powder, 1 scoop of fermented beet powder a few walnuts and a hand full of blueberries I have this a 9am 2 hours after all my meds, I’m good until 1 or 2 pm.
Lunch is usually cooked veggies from the night before, quinoa salad (quinoa, tomatoes, onions olives) or cooked lentils with cashew cream, dinner veggies, could be any vegetable mix, mushrooms and quinoa or very little white rice cooked the night before and refrigerate so it becomes a resistant starch and beans normally black beans with two tablespoons of hemp seeds, im learning how too cook vegan Indian food, has lots of vegetables and quality proteins, I snack on high fiber fruits, nuts and hummus
I hope this helps, I will keep you and your husband in my prayers

@zzotte I believe my 'almost vegan' diet allowed me to be on AS fo 13 years before needing treatment. Even then, it was one lesion only, contained.
A great source for diet is Dean Ornish & also Dr Greger. Both MD's
https://nutritionfacts.org/
https://ornish.com/zine/the-lancet/

@bikeman1 If you're willing to relax your ban on dairy, whey powder is an extremely efficient non-meat protein source: 26 grams per two-scoop serving, for what I use. I add it to 12 ounces of milk (plus creatine) for a quick 38 grams of protein after a workout. Given the amount of exercise we need to keep muscle mass while on ADT, and the additional protein required to support that, I think some "cheating" on a vegan or plant-based diet might be worth it to stay topped-up - if you can fit that within your dietary principles.