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Originally Posted by Lasereth
If you eat out a lot, or snack a lot, or eat fast food a lot, I can see someone with that blood pressure easily doing 5,000 calories or more per day. 2.5 years ago I was taking in 6,500 calories per day by drinking soft drinks constantly and eating out for most meals. Drop those figures down 66% and you're in the 1800-2150 range which is what you should be at if you're trying to lose weight and lower blood pressure without exercising. I've battled obesity my entire life and it's not as easy as "gradually cutting calories" or "eating better quality calories" for some people. Reducing the caloric intake drastically is how you lose weight if you're not willing to go apeshit at the gym.
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Okay so now it looks like you meant "drop
by 1/3" which is a huge difference. But you still didn't know how many calories were being eaten in the first place. If he was on a 3000 calorie diet, dropping to 1000 would have been a very bad idea. I was only warning against what you
said in the first place... not what you
meant.
There's a lot of speculation here.