Hypertension

210 minutes cardio a week. Choose something light impact since you had that DVT/PE. Try a recumbent bike or walk. You can break that 15 minutes into two blocks. 15 min morning then night.

You can also try yoga. It's a few hundred calories for an hour. Just pick a beginner class. Try to visit one. It's the only time you are allowed to look at women. I also assume you already got the ok to exercise from your doctor. You are also a sherbro so the female instructor will touch you and stuff.

Go download any food app and track your meals for a month. You will figure how much you are eating. You can eat a few hundred calories below that and the weight loss will happen gradually. You don't need a crash diet. If you are very hungry then look into volume eating. Some people aren't hungry but they eat because of anxiety, stress etc etc.

Good luck bro.
 
Consume fewer calories. Yes, working out is important for heart health or health in general, but weight loss is mostly about eating less. 99% of people with a significant drop in weight did it from consuming fewer calories. Most are not willing and/or capable of burning off the surplus amounts they eat per day. A single cookie can negate an hour of exercise for example...
 
Yesterday I made a spreadsheet using figures from fda.gov, webmd, and other sites that had nutrition info and tried to see how much of specific nutrients I get from the stuff I routinely eat each day and how that compares to recommended amounts.

They keep saying potassium gets rid of sodium and daily recommended potassium is a few thousand mg's. I suspect I don't get anywhere near that amount. Big chunks come from Sam's Club froyo, V8, banana. I think I might have to eat more than two bananas per day. I learned vanilla froyo has less iron and potassium than choco froyo.

Costco doesn't seem to carry V8 and Sam's Club only has regular V8 which has a lot of sodium. Some grocery stores might have V8, but it's the smaller cans and way more expensive than Walmart's normal cans.

Coconut water is supposed to have significant potassium, but when I tried it, not so good.
 
Went to the stores to look at nutrition info on coconut water, canned soup for potassium content. Seems like there's no such thing as USA coconut water. All were Thailand, Sri Lanka, Phillipines. One had a Hawaiian name and address on same type of can as Thailand coconut water, and almost bought a few, but saw product of Thailand. Ended up trying some $4 stylized watermelon water and tasted a tiny bit like partially spoiled, but didn't have immediate toilet problems.

Was surprised when comparing potassium content in Campbell's Chunky low sodium soups. I assumed the one with potato had the most potassium, but roast chicken and veg and beef and veg had more and with each can representing 2 servings, one can of soup would be a very significant amount of potassium towards the daily recommended amount. POM pomegranate juice also has some potassium but not as much as the soup, and I'd have to see how much juice is one serving.

Also noticed low sodium V8 has quite a bit more potassium than regular V8.

Walmart had Bodyguard (?) sports drink on clearance and saw it had decent amount of potassium, and it said contains coconut water but didn't see country of origin on the label.

I'm thinking if I eat a Sam's Club choco froyo, low sodium V8, low sodium Chunky's roast chicken and veg soup, a bit of POM juice, and banana each day, I'll be close to the daily recommended amount.
 
Apparently after reading a bunch of health and health food articles on Apple News, it recently gave me an article about potassium affecting blood pressure via helping get rid of salt via pee.

I ran around looking for Low Sodium V8 in stores here without luck finding at good price. Seems Amazon as seller sells it and will ship it in 24 packs! Cheaper than buying 4 six packs at Walmart.
 
GSP_37 said:
Apparently after reading a bunch of health and health food articles on Apple News, it recently gave me an article about potassium affecting blood pressure via helping get rid of salt via pee.

I ran around looking for Low Sodium V8 in stores here without luck finding at good price. Seems Amazon as seller sells it and will ship it in 24 packs! Cheaper than buying 4 six packs at Walmart.
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You should get some blood work done before jamming a bunch of potassium in your body, too much can be dangerous.
 
TheChance said:
You should get some blood work done before jamming a bunch of potassium in your body, too much can be dangerous.
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I did see the articles saying be cautious if taking potassium supplements and getting it via food instead. I made a spreadsheet to add up potassium from stuff I regularly ate and likely didn't come anywhere close to the daily recommended amount.

The other day I ate a Panda Express plate as first food of the day and felt like something's not right like too much salt. Felt better after banana, froyo, can of soup.
 
I think this thread is covering the topic well. I have been very recently dealing with that due to work-related stress and would like to emphasise the mental aspect of it.

Essentially I have been feeling awful for the last week, after a few month of extreme work related stress. Went to the doc on Monday due to feeling weak and like shit. The found high BP (140/90 -ish) but blood work and heart check were fine. Just told me to buy a measuring device and monitor it for two weeks. Then, another stressful week, started feeling weaker, losing appetite, headaches, insomnia, anxiety, etc. Went to another doc yesterday who redid the checks and heart was perfectly fine and sent me away saying I am simply overstressed and not dying but in need of a therapist. I actually thought something was terribly wrong yesterday and was actually fearing to have to be hospitalised. Instantly, my energy was back, so was my appetite, I slept well and my BP was down to low 130s/80s this morning and I am feeling MUCH better today.

Long story short: do not underestimate how much stress can have consequences on the way you feel and on your body. BP especially is very impacted by stress levels.
 
I’ve been drinking pretty heavy for the last 5 years, got tired of it. In April I was 89 kG, now I’m about 81. This took two months to achieve. I eat cards once a week, walked 10,000 steps or more a day and mostly eat protein based foods.
 
GSP_37 said:
Went to the stores to look at nutrition info on coconut water, canned soup for potassium content. Seems like there's no such thing as USA coconut water. All were Thailand, Sri Lanka, Phillipines. One had a Hawaiian name and address on same type of can as Thailand coconut water, and almost bought a few, but saw product of Thailand. Ended up trying some $4 stylized watermelon water and tasted a tiny bit like partially spoiled, but didn't have immediate toilet problems.

Was surprised when comparing potassium content in Campbell's Chunky low sodium soups. I assumed the one with potato had the most potassium, but roast chicken and veg and beef and veg had more and with each can representing 2 servings, one can of soup would be a very significant amount of potassium towards the daily recommended amount. POM pomegranate juice also has some potassium but not as much as the soup, and I'd have to see how much juice is one serving.

Also noticed low sodium V8 has quite a bit more potassium than regular V8.

Walmart had Bodyguard (?) sports drink on clearance and saw it had decent amount of potassium, and it said contains coconut water but didn't see country of origin on the label.

I'm thinking if I eat a Sam's Club choco froyo, low sodium V8, low sodium Chunky's roast chicken and veg soup, a bit of POM juice, and banana each day, I'll be close to the daily recommended amount.
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Oranges are a good source, plus vitamin C is great for you too
 
Cut processed, salty and fried foods. Cut akso liquid calorie drinks. Workout+clean diet will get the results you want
 
Breakfast - Metamucil 2-3 tablespoons mixed with half water half grapefruit juice and take with D, b6 and fish oil. Keeps you full till dinner, anti calcification properties and great for cholesterol.

I did only that while keeping everything else the same and went from 137 /86 to 125/80 in 3 months
 
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