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Welcome! High protein with no veggies may make it hard to meet your goals. What do you not like about veggies? I've found there are veggies I like now that I didn't like as a kid because my mom wasn't a great cook (sorry, Mom). Get adventurous! Try new things! You may find things you never thought you'd like. I'm looking at you, Zucchini!

so, if you don't like eating veggies straight up, maybe explore ways to hide them and ways you enjoy them. Do you like salsa and spaghetti sauces - those are veggie based and a great place to hide extras - try grilling/smoking some veggies on the bbq like some rough chopped sweet onion and bell peppers. chop them up, stir in an oil based marinade, lay down a bbq pan or sheet foil on the bbq, and grill on low heat after the meats - turn/stir a couple times - cook until translucent. Then put them in a blender/food choppers and pulverize - stir into salsa or spaghetti sauces or soups - you can make ahead and freeze in baggies to pull out and use later too.

spice to taste - i like adding torn cilantro, dashes of onion powder, garlic powder, blackening or cajon seasoning, italian seasoning.... other pepper blends....

i also do blends with chopped tomatoes, mushrooms, asparagus, other color onions, can also pan fry when grill not available. use in other cooking... like with other meats (in shaved beef, a raw chopped onion and bell pepper cook down and almost disappear).

I like to make enough of whatever I'm cooking to use for a few days, in a few ways, and think of them veggies as accents/garnish/flavor instead of the main thing...

To maximize your protein variety and keep things interesting, continue this thread:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10247171/carbs-and-fats-are-cheap-heres-a-guide-to-getting-your-proteins-worth-fiber-also

If you don't like veggies but know you ought to eat some for best health, then yeah:

* Experiment to see if you can find some you do like
* Try different ways of cooking them (roasting? cooking with your meat, like roasting with pot roast so they take on the meat flavor? Soups (blended) or stews? etc.)
* Blend them into things you like. Mashed winter squash or white beans can blend invisibly into macaroni and cheese, for example. Ditto for cauliflower. Cauliflower "rice" doesn't have much flavor TBH, and some can be blended with regular rice for stir-fries or the like. Cauliflower can also be mashed in with potatoes quite invisibly.
* Consider smoothies: You can make fruit or peanut butter powder or something like that be the dominant flavor, but blend in some veggies like carrots, zucchini, etc.
* Look up recipes for hiding veggies from kids. They work for adults, too. (Put "hiding veggies from kids" into a web search, you'll get lots of sites with tips.)

Maybe challenge yourself to try one new veggie or way of cooking them per week or month or something? Also, sometimes it can help to commit to try a new food several times (in small portions) . . . sometimes it grows on us.

Best wishes!