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If that is your resting blood pressure, you are highly unlikely to be able to lower it enough without medication to bring it down into the range of safety .. which is under 140/80. Your blood pressure is high enough that it is seriously risking your health.
Not only are you likely in need of blood pressure medications, you probably need some lifestyle changes ...
If you're overweight, you will need to lose weight, and not by a crash weight loss diet, but a general program of nutrition and exercise which you'll need anyway.
So ... your diet needs to reduce fat intake significantly, consuming under 60 gm of fat per day and increase your intake of fruits and vegetables. Keep your caloric intake down to what you need.
You should reduce or eliminate stimulants, such as caffeine from coffee or cola type beverages. One or two cups of coffee per day is OK, but more will increase your bp.
Avoid decongestant medications (like pseudoephedrine HCl) which is a stimulant.
These things will help lower that bp ... but probably nowhere near enough. High blood pressure is the result of the heart having to squeeze harder to push blood around your body. When it does that, the heart muscle thickens like a body builder's muscles thicken. The trouble with that is that the heart then loses it's ability to squeeze as much blood out, so it has to work even harder to the point where it can't pump enough blood into the heart's own muscles to maintain that level of work. This is called congestive heart failure. Basically it will kill your heart muscle.
High blood pressure has to be one of the most dangerous conditions. The heart has to be both strong and yet supple. It's kind of like wrestlers ... you get a thin lithe guy and he can bounce all around the ring and beat his opponents because of his agility, where you get a fat wrestler who wins the odd match because of his size, but anyone who knocks him off his feet, he becomes quite helpless.
Please go talk with your doctor ... get your cholesterol checked and your heart checked out, and get that BP under control.
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