I can’t name the number of people who have started my High Blood Pressure program after being diagnosed with high blood pressure who either didn’t like or couldn’t tolerate the horrible side effects of prescription drugs to lower their blood pressure.
Throughout various correspondences, I have also come to realize the number of people who tried my program, noticed good results and then were encouraged to adopt healthier lifestyles as a result.
Many of these same people indicated that they had no family history of high blood pressure, didn’t smoke or drink alcohol to excess. The only thing they noticed is that they had, over the years, gained weight (sometimes considerable amounts after childbirth, etc.) and/or developed poor eating habits.
There are many diets available today – just type in “Diet” into any web search engine and notice the results. Most of these diets, unfortunately, offer amazing weight loss results in little to no time. Once you drill down deeper, you realize that they are at best, not accurate in their claims – at worst, basically starvation diets.
One may lose a lot of weight but the effects on one’s health, the heart especially, are devastating. Our bodies aren’t designed to gain or lose vast amounts of weight at once. But, for many of these diets, that’s exactly what happens.
The body goes into “starvation” mode with these extreme caloric reduction diets and once we either lose the target weight or more than likely, simply quit out of frustration, our metabolisms already reduced, are forced to deal with “normal” food intake.
The result is rapid weight gain and health issues. Many of my clients informed me that they were even heavier than they were when they started the original diet.
Of course, that’s not to say that all plans to lose weight are wrong. Many of my clients indicated that once they were feeling better from trying my program, they were encouraged to try eating better, and in general, live a healthier lifestyle.
My advice is to go back to the food pyramid. This simple plan we all learned in grade school, does in the end hold good advice. In fact, one client mentioned that when she went back to the “basics” she and her family ended up losing weight, without feeling hungry and “punished.”
One also doesn’t feel like one is on a diet, at least not in the traditional sense. It is in fact, a lifestyle change, meant to go the distance, not just a fad diet.
Add to it that most if not all healthy diet plans also recommend at least eight glasses of water per day and vitamin supplements to ensure effective weight loss. I am a firm believer in vitamin supplements, ONLY, keep in mind that you should go with an established company with proven results – vitamins and other health supplements are often times not regulated by any health agency.
I highly recommend a well balanced diet promoting all food groups, even fat, just in limited and realistic quantities.
I also highly recommend both my High Blood Pressure program to lower blood pressure with all natural and amazing results or my Weight Loss Breeze program if you are looking to lose weight with all natural breathing and relaxation exercises.
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