How long Keto until blood pressure improves?

(Erica Ramirez) #1

How long until your blood pressure was in the normal range? And how much weight did you lose/what was your BMI?

I’m looking for an improvement in my BP (family history & gestational HP/eclampsia). 6 weeks after having my youngest mine was still high. They monitored for me for awhile & discussed starting me on meds but I never went back. I started Keto May 9 and when I checked last week (after losing close to half of what I want) I was only down to 140/90 (single reading). It is getting better so that’s good, but I had higher hopes when I took it!
According to the charts, I am still “overweight” by almost 20 pounds. Maybe when I get to a “normal” weight, it’ll be normal BP? You think?

(Ellen) #2

Give it a while longer, took me 9.5 months on keto to drop BP enough to come off 1 lot of meds (6 stone / 84 lbs), although I have no idea what pregnacy can do to BP. KCKO.

#3

Yes and no. BMI is a near useless measure for most people, it’s more about your body composition which BMI can’t account for, weight is a huge part of it no doubt but if most of your weight is fat, you’ll typically trend higher. Also keep if your goal weight isn’t appropriate for your build it could also still contribute to it being higher… or not. It’s not always that cut and dry but 140/90 isn’t that bad.

(Erica Ramirez) #4

Thanks y’all. No, it’s definitely not that bad, it was 200/110 regularly. So I am happy that there’s an improvement, I had just hoped that bottom number was closer to 75 :smiley:
Just going to KCKO and check again in a few months.

#5

Exercise also helps lower BP. If you’ve been sedentary, start slowly. As a added benefit, resistance training does wonders for body recomposition. Admit it, deep down you want Kelly Ripa’s biceps… :muscle:

(charlie3) #6

In January I got a blood pressure cuff. The highest reading I took in those early days was 162/82. In March I was transitioning to keto and ramping up strength training and cardio and finally walking. I do a fair amount of all three lately. This morning my blood pressure reading was 114/66 and I have recorded lower than that recently. During that time I also lost about 20 pounds which restores the waistline I had in high school days, 31"

I suspect that 75% of the benefit of all the fringe diets, including ketogenic, is about the things we are not eating anymore. I also think the exercise, not the diet, gets most of the credit for the decrease in blood pressure.

(Erica Ramirez) #7

I am pretty active (walking/jogging mostly) but I have lately added in weight training. I will start HIIT when I lose a bit more weight (sprints - don’t want to hurt my knees). Thanks for the tips! I am more motivated for my workouts already!!

(Julie ) #8

Not sure of blood pressure, but resting heart rate seems to stay around the upper 50’s to 61 or so now. Been keto for 7 almost 8 months. (Results are from Garmin Vivoactive 3)