{"id":2954,"date":"2010-09-15T14:22:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T14:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2010-09-15T14:22:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T14:22:02","slug":"how-can-i-lose-weight-without-it-affecting-my-cd4-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2954","title":{"rendered":"How can I lose weight without it affecting my CD4 count?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>There are ways of losing weight healthily by sticking to a balanced diet and an exercise regime which will not affect your CD4 count. Ensuring you have a good diet and exercise regime can actually help to maintain a healthy immune system. It will not make you sick if you lose weight properly.<\/p>\n<p>Weight loss is better if it is done slowly because the slower it comes off the longer it will stay off. It is not about losing weight fast but about doing it healthily.\u00a0If you are able to then you could go to your local gym and get a personal trainer to help you with an exercise routine or ask your HIV doctor to refer you to a dietician. This way you can ensure you are losing weight in a way that will improve your health rather than jeopardise it.<\/p>\n<p>For information about what constitutes a healthy balanced diet for positive people please follow this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catie.ca\/myers.nsf\/5d8f01691c21f51485256583007bc226\/9090653662deb4db8525658d00716cda!OpenDocument\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For tips about how to lose weight healthily please follow this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebody.com\/content\/living\/art54329.html\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>I am a lady of 27 years who is HIV positive but not on HAART. I have been gaining weight a lot this past 8 months. I am worried because my CD4 count is 370 this month. Now I want to lose weight but I am afraid that if I start to lose weight I might get sick or something could happen that would make me sick while my CD4 is still high. I do want to lose weight quickly though. Please help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-supplements-and-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}