Has Losing Weight made any difference to your Blood Pressure?

Losing weight helps with blood pressure. Regular exercise helps tremendously. If you can find time to walk 20 minutes every day at a brisk pace, you'll see numbers go down...but if you stop walking regularly, they'll start to creep up again! Another thing that helps keep blood pressure lower is to eat some raw celery every day. There is something in raw celery that helps relax the muscles in our blood vessels...and when they relax, blood pressure goes down. I have tried this, and it really does work! You just have to have some every day. I got into the habit of having a stalk of celery (a whole stalk, about three 4" pieces) every day at lunch with whatever I was eating, and it made a difference! Hope this helps!

It has been suggested for some time that excessive weight worsens Hypertension , but it never occured to me that the effect would be so dramatic !! About 2 years ago, my weight reached an all-time high , 110 kilos !! Then I started getting thse headaches in the back of my head - I actually joked with one of my friends -Hey ,it looks like I have Hypertension , hahaha !!! That was how remote a possibility hypertension seemed to me at the time (I was only 29) After that I started getting BP readings , the systolic would always be normal 110 to a rare 140 , BUT the diastolic one remained FIXED for a long time on 95 !! It annoyed me how it would not go down !! So I started a vigorous diet where I would eat vegetables and Tuna from the can without any bread ,chicken and chicken soup etc for a whole YEAR , my weight dropped to about 85 kilos (with absolutely NO exercise , can you believe it??) and my readings kept getting better and better , I started getting readings like 110/65 etc .SO .it definitely affects blood pressure !!

Hi! I'm a pharmacy student and from what I learned in the lectures, patients who are overweight to obese frequently have higher blood pressure values, because blood needs to be pumped to a larger body surface area and the heart needs to pump blood at a greater force and pressure. Hence, decreasing weight should be very useful to decrease blood pressure in these type of patients. Besides, statistics show that weight is considered partly or wholly responsible for up to 30% of high blood pressure incidences, so weight loss is certainly worth a try anytime at all. It's good to hear that you have lowered your blood pressure by just dieting. If deiting alone can help keep your blood pressure at the goal, by all means keep at it. I know the frustration of taking medications and some medications just don't work for some people, so taking them is practically useless for some patients.

I'm a very small framed, very petite woman and still got hypertension. It's in my family history. I don't drink or smoke and I exercise some, but I still got it. I'm glad that weight loss helped you with your problem. I'm on medication and without it, I average about what you do but with it, I average right at normal or slightly below.