Want to Acquire Lasting Health?
Make Your Diet Plan.

A high blood pressure diet is basically your diet plan, but there is more to this, so please follow along while I lay it out for you.

Your Diet Goals

Normal blood pressure should go along with good health. Therefore, your high blood pressure diet must head you in the direction of that good health.

Good health would be your main goal, but you could have lesser goals to achieve along the way. The most common one is weight loss. That was a strong goal for me. I wanted to take weight off and keep it off.

You might have other goals you want from your diet plan for high blood pressure. For example, attaining or maintaining a normal range blood pressure, getting in shape, feeling better, looking better, having more energy, are a few.

Set your goal(s) now.

Now, how fast for you to get there? I decided to lose one tenth of a pound a week. Each week on Wednesday, I weigh my body on a digital scale and mark down the target weight whether I make it or not. If I'm over the target, I go to work to lower my weight to the target.

On the day I make my target weight I take my blood pressure with a home blood pressure monitor.

I keep a record of these to see how I'm doing over time.

Now, determine how you will measure your progress toward your goals.

Choose Your Diet

You can start with one of these basic diets: Dash Diet, Low Sodium Diet, Mediterranean Diet, Blood Type Diet, Vegetarian Diet, or Life Change Diet.

Please review these diets if you need to then choose your starting high blood pressure diet.

Modifying Your Choice of Diet

Do you like more than one of these diets for lowering blood pressure naturally? Can't make up your mind which to use? Do what I did - combine two of them.

Here's how I did it: I started with the Blood Type Diet, then added on the Mediterranean Diet. My blood type is O, so from the beneficial foods for Type O's I made up my Mediterranean Diet.

You can modify your chosen high blood pressure diet with beneficial foods from the Foods section as well.

Living Your Diet Plan

I'm a big believer of being cause over my diet rather than being a slave to it. I reserve the right to change it in any way I see fit.

Nevertheless, I wanted my goals achieved. What I did was give myself some breathing room in two ways, which I recommend to you, too:

First, I work my chosen diet six days a week. Saturdays I eat what ever I want. I relish Saturdays!

Second, I worked into my diet gradually. After a year, I still eat some foods I'm not supposed to on my high blood pressure diet. Mayonnaise, mustard and tangerines are some. But, my wife and I have moved from pork products to turkey products. Turkey bacon now tastes pretty good to me.

So, take it easy. Don't be serious about strictly following your diet. Just work toward it. You'll get there eventually.

Persistence

Whatever your plan is, persist with it and work with it. Don't give up. Give yourself some leeway, but gradually adopt it and make it your life's high blood pressure diet.

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