The Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle (BFFM) program is fairly easy to adapt to a vegetarian who eats no meat, but does eat eggs and dairy products, and it will even work for a vegan.
There are some adjustments that need to be made to the basic Burn The Fat plan to suit vegetarians, however.
This is largely because Burn The Fat is based on bodybuilding methods of fat loss, which require a complete protein with every meal. In the Burn The Fat manual, the proteins listed are all lean animal proteins, because animal proteins contain the essential amino acids neededfor muscle growth.
You could combine two complementary incomplete vegetable protein sources, such as rice and beans, to create a complete protein, but tBurn The Fat does not go into detail about how to do this.
For muscle building, combining two incomplete vegetable proteins is not as effective as eating animal-derived proteins.
Ovo-lacto vegetarian, however, can achieve excellent muscule development that matches any meat eater.
Meat is not necessary to build muscle.
However, "a strict vegetarian diet makes body fat control slightly more challenging" says Tom Venuto.
"Because lean proteins like chicken, egg whites and fish are highly thermic foods, therefore a higher protein diet can make it somewhat easier for those with stubborn fat to lose those last few annoying pounds."
Finally, fat loss is primarily dependent on calories in versus calories out, hormonal control, and metabolic efficiency.
A higher protein diet might bring some hormonal and metabolic advantages, and a gretaer advantage for building muscle, but fat loss can be accomplished strictly through exercise and calorie/portion control.
Some strict vegetarians may find Burn The Fat is not suitable for them because the e-book was not written with the vegetarian in mind.
However, it will work even if you're vegetarian. You just need to slightly alter the program to your needs.