I agree some people probably need to take a few medicines to control high blood pressure but are you salt sensitive?
Are you sure you are totally diet compliant? I'm literally sitting here eating blueberries and vegetables with green tea, unsweetened. I had 6 ounces of low salt turkey (the expensive stuff like Nancy Pelosi likely eats) I weighed out exactly 2 ounces of cashews, unsalted, $12.95 for 16 ounces. (I had to look up the price!)(340 calories)
I don't drink any alcohol or sugar sweetened drink - even when no one is watching. Ever. Never so much as a single cookie or non whole wheat carb. I have to get 2600-2700 calories per day to maintain muscle and not gain fat so I have to eat more than a few whole grains and nuts and beans to get enough calories - and I enter everything I eat in a logging program on my computer.
I only occasionally have any red meat with saturated fat but I get blood work every 6 months to check for cholesterol without an issue.
I just did 4 miles out in the rain.
People have made bets against me that I couldn't eat just a bite of this or that for years - food so good you would give up sex for it - and I win them every time. I enjoy the taste of good food and would likely enjoy a birthday cake once in awhile but I eat for fuel only. Premium fuel!
I even turned down the dessert tray at the fancy suite the one time I went to the Mavs game when someone comped me the ticket and you should have heard the motherfuckers raving about the Tiramisu but it just isn't worth it to me. (I hope Mark Cuban loses hundreds of millions of dollars during this shutdown)
If you keep up with that and still have high blood pressure then you are just unlucky with the high BP but likely very healthy anyway.
Originally Posted by friendly fred
I'm somewhere between you and Sienna in diet, meaning less protein than you, but not vegan as I eat fish about once a day. I occasionally stray, usually when eating out with friends.
Here's my diet today, which was pretty typical - one banana, All Bran, berries, combination of low calorie soy and almond milk, veggie burger, salad with about one serving each of spinach, cauliflower, broccoli and tomatoes, two glasses of tea with some sugar (equivalent of half glass of sweetened tea), salmon with no salt and sugary sauce, white rice, green beans, squash, second servings of broccoli and cauliflower, carrots. Used vinegar, oil and cheese on the salad and will use potassium chloride and canola/olive oil/palm oil butter substitute on veggies tonight. When I cut out sugar, bread, rice and the like I tend to get the runs from too much fiber. I could go with more protein but believe there's a downside to that.
Exercise averages about an hour 5 days a week and consists of 40% aerobic, 40% weights, 20% abs. And to be honest my blood pressure isn't that bad. Systolic without medication would be in normal or high normal range most of the time. Getting the diastolic consistently below 90 without medication would be tough. My body mass index is normal