Q: In order to gain muscles to u need to eat a lot of meat?Cant u take the proteins u need from other foods?Iam a vegeterian.Does this mean i cannot get muscles?

A: No, you can be a vegetarian and even vegan and still be quite successful in building muscle. The biggest trick will be getting enough protein as part of your diet (at least 1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight daily).

If you eat dairy, you could add cottage cheese and/or whey protein powder (which is a by-product of cottage cheese manufaturing process). Both of them are very high-quality protein foods. Cottage cheese is between 60 and 80% pure protein (depending on its fat content) and whey powder is 80-90% pure protein.

If you eat eggs, you can have whole eggs (about 40/60 protein and fat, but egg fats are actually quite healthy when not deep-fried in oil) or egg whites which are pure protein.

Even if you're vegan, you can still make sure you get enough protein by eating lots of legumes -- beans, lentils, soy and soy products. Many leafy green veggies are quite high in protein as well (spinach, for example) but they're so light in calories overall that you'd need a ton of them to get enough protein from them alone. Nuts also have a good chunk of protein, but they are also extremely high in fats which means you can't rely on nuts alone for the protein -- you'd end up consuming far too much fat.

So you just need to be more selective about what you eat and make sure that you get enough protein in each meal whether it comes from whey powder, cottage cheese, eggs, lentils, beans, soy, or other foods. It can most certainly be done!