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So i got to gym regularly and i need ~150 grams of protein a day. Please tell me how will i get this from plant based diet.

Oh and i grew up a vegetarian and only vegetarian diet that i can eat regularly is Indian cuisine. Rest of vegetarian diet is just not delicious enough to eat regularly.

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You find out by studying what other athletes with a plant based diet eat.

Here are a few to get you started

What Frank Medrano eats (vegan calisthenics athlete)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ9sfVsBbS8

What Patrick Baboumian eats (vegan strongman)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz9H7MMuKjY

Body building advice - plant based diet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr4LIOq3grw

And there are plenty of vegan or vegetarian body builder communities out there, like this one

http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/

Knew about Frank medrano, but didn't know about others. Thanks for that.

Here is a link I created (independently of this discussion) with vegetables with the highest amount of protein.

https://www.menutail.com/blog/51/Top_10_Vegetarian_Foods_Hig...

I usually get most of my protein for my workout supplemented by protein shakes, but other than that dairy products are very high in protein, also beans, peas, nuts, etc.. and there are a lot of other potential sources if you google around.

Yep though you missed the gold standard for 'complete' proteins - eggs.

The biological value of proteins is measured against egg protein as the benchmark (I'm sure there are few proteins that exceed the egg but they are readily available, easily prepared and cheap as a protein source).

Where i grew up (India), eggs was considered non-vegetarian. Maybe he didn't miss it.

Eggs are not plant based.

Beans don't help you when you are avoiding carbs. Nuts are insanely high in calories.

If you are eating around 1800 calories a day and trying to avoid cards, there aren't many options.

Beans and nuts could get you pretty far towards that. Then make up the rest with a nice soy based protien powder.

Nuts are pretty high in calories though. 100g of mixed nuts contain ~600 calories. That's around 1/3rd of my calories gone. Compare that to a chicken breast, 100g of chicken breasts has 165 calories.

Come on we are on hacker news. I expect you to be able to find protein values of plants by yourself. Plants not containing enough protein is an absolute myth and it's astonishing to me that there are still people believing in it.

Go eat lentils, chickpeas, beans, soy products and hemp protein and it should be more than easy to get enough protein. There are world champion UFC fighters and olympia athletes on a vegan diet and I am pretty sure, they don't have any problems getting their protein.

Also checkout youtube. There are a lot of vegan bodybuilders sharing their recipes.

Beans - they have carbs.

Lentils - I agree.

About World Champion UFC fighters, can you name me some?

Check out this site:

http://www.fuelforthefighter.com/the-fighter/

Nate & Nick Diaz are the most popular ones I think. I don't really follow the sport, but a quick google search should yield a few more results.

Neither were UFC Champions and they actually eat sea food. :)

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