{"id":10802,"date":"2015-09-21T12:24:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T12:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10802"},"modified":"2016-01-05T21:41:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T21:41:06","slug":"what-can-i-do-about-my-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10802","title":{"rendered":"What can i do to help loose weight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before answering you question it is important to understand more about your situation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you worried about recent weight gain?<\/li>\n<li>Is this something that you think is linked to HIV treatment?<\/li>\n<li>How much has your weight changed and how much are you trying to loose?<\/li>\n<li>How has the wieght affected your body shape?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This information is all essential before we can help becasue the options for what to do are different in each situation.<\/p>\n<p>The information below is therefore very general, but might still help.<\/p>\n<p>Making sure you have a good diet and exercise regime usually can slowly lead to weight loss. This might not happen quickly but take a while. It is good that you are already doing this but I&#8217;m not sure that the lemon juice is having a direct effect &#8211; unless you like this.<\/p>\n<p>It is more healthy to steadily loose a little weight each month than\u00a0trying to lose as much weight as possible in a short time.<\/p>\n<p>How active are you?\u00a0Becoming more active &#8211; even walking for longer each day &#8211; will help most people burn off calories.<\/p>\n<p>If you have already changes to a reduced calori diet and exercise but have not lost weight, then speak to you clinic or doctor. They may be able to refer you to a specialist.<\/p>\n<p>If the weight you have gained is in specific areas, rather than general weight it may have something to do with your HIV treatment.<\/p>\n<p>You can also ask you doctors if the ARV&#8217;s you are on are linked to this kind of side effect.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebody.com\/content\/art54329.html\">information about\u00a0losing weight and HIV<\/a>\u00a0online.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on ARV&#8217;s  and trying to drink lemon juice 3 times a day. I try to eat less than i used to. I&#8217;m also a vegetarian but my weight still bothers me. What can i do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-living-with-hiv-long-term","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}