People are getting more and more conscious with their lifestyle and health as of late and this is a good sign. However, with this conscious effort of the citizens also arise the various weight loss methods coming from the natural diet, modified diets, medications, supplements, and exercise. Through the years, what proved to be the best option would be the natural diets and one of these would be by going vegetarian. Nevertheless, a question about vegetarianism still came to light. Does becoming vegetarian help you lose weight or does it make you gain weight? Here are six things you may not know about being vegetarian.

1. It can make you fat if you forget adding protein in your meals.

Here is the thing, many vegetarians opt not to eat meat. In this effort, they may also forget to add protein in their meals. Without proteins, you may feel hungrier and here is where weight gain may take place. You see, the protein in the food that you eat aids you in feeling satiated. Without protein, you will hungry and thus you will be reaching for more food often and mostly, vegetarians may only resort to carbohydrates. However, carbohydrates take about 4 hours to digest while protein takes six hours. So, if you are skipping the meat like many vegetarians do, try including some protein in your meals through legumes, nuts, hummus, split peas, nut butters, lentils, and tofu. If you are a lacto-ovo vegetarian, you can get it through eggs, low fat or nonfat yogurt, as well as other dairy products that are low fat or fat free. If you belong to the Pesca-vegetarians, you can get it from fishes.