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@kipdave Make use of a tool like cronometer.com to track your daily micronutrients, total calories, and total protein. Your foods look alright but it's not clear if you're eating enough. Many people underestimate how much they need to be eating on a plant based diet.

@revxus I live in the subtropics so my diet is based around what's ripe this month and available at the market. Right now I am eating a lot of zucchini, sweetcorn, avocado, peanuts, eggplant, butternut squash, coconut, pumpkins, sweet potato, banana, and various leafy greens like amaranth...

@tebah Ah, that makes sense now. So what I think is that you should use a protein supplement as just that - a supplement to whole food protein. For example, in the morning you can make a porridge (with oats, chia seeds, and pumpkin seeds) that is 30 gram protein and on top of that you can mix...

@tebah By whole food protein I mean protein that comes from actual food, not supplements. From the OP it looks like your only protein source in the morning is powder supplement. I don't see any whole foods like oats, chia seeds, buckwheat, etc. Please clarify.

@tebah Your breakfast is the weak link here. You're not eating any whole food protein in the morning. Why is that? It's very easy to include a legume/seed/grain meal in the morning that provides you with 30-40 grams of protein.