For me, on the other hand, weight loss didn't do anything for my blood pressure.
I was averaging around 160/90 on 3 or 4 different medicines [1] before losing weight. Then I lost around 45 kb (100 pounds) and kept it off...and there was no noticeable change in blood pressure.
Triglycerides and bad cholesterol levels plummeted, getting me completely off medicine for those. A1c dropped to 5 with no medication from over 8 with several diabetes drugs.
What started dropped blood pressure for me was becoming more active. Nothing extreme either...I just started using the stairs instead of the elevator at work to reach our offices (one floor up from ground) or to visit the vending machines for snacks (one floor below ground), and taking a 20 or 30 minute walk a two or three times a week.
That got it down to around 135/80.
I upped the activity to at least 30 minutes of walking a day starting in mid-2019, thanks to the psychologically manipulative gamification the Apple Watch I had just bought did with its fitness tracking. I had thought I was not susceptible to such things, but my current 1146 day streak of closing all rings says otherwise.
Now I'm averaging about 110/70. I only rarely ever see higher than 120 systolic or 80 diastolic. On the low side I see it get down to low 90's systolic on occasion and a little below 60 diastolic.
I should probably talk to my doctor about dropping medicines or lowering doses to see if they are necessary any more.
[1] There are several different ways blood pressure medicines can work, and many doctor feel it is better to try to control it by using several different medicines than just trying to attack it from one angle.
In my case a Ketogenic diet lowered my blood pressure. To the point that I need to add a pinch of extra salt to my food to bump it up or risk passing out every time I stand up too fast.
I was averaging around 160/90 on 3 or 4 different medicines [1] before losing weight. Then I lost around 45 kb (100 pounds) and kept it off...and there was no noticeable change in blood pressure.
Triglycerides and bad cholesterol levels plummeted, getting me completely off medicine for those. A1c dropped to 5 with no medication from over 8 with several diabetes drugs.
What started dropped blood pressure for me was becoming more active. Nothing extreme either...I just started using the stairs instead of the elevator at work to reach our offices (one floor up from ground) or to visit the vending machines for snacks (one floor below ground), and taking a 20 or 30 minute walk a two or three times a week.
That got it down to around 135/80.
I upped the activity to at least 30 minutes of walking a day starting in mid-2019, thanks to the psychologically manipulative gamification the Apple Watch I had just bought did with its fitness tracking. I had thought I was not susceptible to such things, but my current 1146 day streak of closing all rings says otherwise.
Now I'm averaging about 110/70. I only rarely ever see higher than 120 systolic or 80 diastolic. On the low side I see it get down to low 90's systolic on occasion and a little below 60 diastolic.
I should probably talk to my doctor about dropping medicines or lowering doses to see if they are necessary any more.
[1] There are several different ways blood pressure medicines can work, and many doctor feel it is better to try to control it by using several different medicines than just trying to attack it from one angle.