Hiya, I'm the ghost of the extremely commercialized winter solstace holiday past. I really screwed up my life by NOT dealing with the BP problem.
Ditch the sodium, Ditch anything with high fructose corn sugar, reduce intake of sodas and coffee. Cut back the carbs. Do NOT fast, aim for 1200 calories a day. Drink water. Add a small amount of acidic stuff to the water, like lemon juice, reduces cravings for the Soda pop. Keep some rice cakes in the car, for dealing with cravings /fast food desires.
SEE a MD.
Walk away from conflicts. Actively do something to get rid of the stress.
The DASH II diet is designed to be safe and reduce hypertension. It works.
Get a something that blows out large amounts of 7.62 nato and use it to eliminate the real problems. JUST KIDDING!
Failure to deal with the problem now will turn you into a loser like me. Setting here trying to remember the last time I really felt useful and had a lot of friends and missing a job running the day to day ops of what in the civilian world would be equal to a fortune 1000 enterprise. You do NOT want to proceed to the next step, which is a hospital visit and missing some functions you used to have.
I've lost 79 pounds, but its a horrible cost for meds very month.
FIX IT NOW< before it escalates to stage II or Stage III. I'm no MD< but I learned the hard, blockheaded, way of what you have to do. It varies from body type to body type and personal situation. It requires considerable discipline and experimentation to get back to normal after stage II or stage III hypertension. Failure to do so means you set in a hospital bed and find out how many friends you really have.
Steve
Qui habet Christos, habet Vitam!
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When I still could have...