Andy hoping to find some help and ideas on weight and BP

[Andy4713]

Hello, I'm Andy and I'm 68. 

I'm about 5kg to 7kg over weight and want to lose the extra weight to help my BP. 

My blood pressure is a bit high, and my diastolic seems disproportionately higher than by systolic.

Any help and advise would be greatly appreciated.

Andy

[JonCott]

Hi Andy, I'm Jon. New on here. I'm 59 about 10-12kg overweight and have high bp even when medicated. 

I keep reading and hearing that its a way of life, losing weight and keeping it off. I'm still looking for it.

Good Luck with your weight loss target

[cali111 in reply to JonCott]

Like you I looked for this change for the good. I have managed to lose 6KG but only by dropping my calories to 800-900 a day for as long as I can and then return to normal of 1200 until I can face another purge. They are staying off and when I have lost all the excess weight that I need to lose then I will return to 1200 a day and monitor so I NEVER again get like this. By the way I looked for 15years before accepting that it was the amounts that I ate that was causing the problem and not lack of exercise, willpower or needing so many calories to live. It was what I needed that was the baseline. I am Cali111