Originally Posted by
Jordan Feigenbaum
Nockian,
Thanks for the post and I'm happy to hear you're doing well.
I think that it'd be reasonable to correlate the drop in your blood pressure with your dietary change that produced weight loss. It also may have decreased sodium intake, which may have played some role if you were salt sensitive. It also appears during that time you altered your activity level. Summed together, this likely is responsible for your blood pressure improvement.
With respect to the migraines, I suspect that's likely due to other factors unrelated to blood pressure improvement.
With all that said, for productive training I would recommend 30g of starchy carbohydrates taken 60-90 min prior to workout with a meal and another 30g taken with your post workout meal. You'll have to adjust that over time to effect.
I'm not sure if there is a "full SS" diet that is actually advised for anyone outside of the skinny young male, which doesn't apply to you ya know?
Finally, being small and weak with a stroke isn't any better than being big and strong with a stroke. Low strength levels are correlated with stroke in those with a modicum of aerobic capacity (typically generated by non formal exercise activity). That said, in your instance we also need to keep blood pressure controlled. I think multiple things previously contributed to your blood pressure and now that it's under control, I wouldn't expect that any weight gain (particularly lean body mass) would increase your blood pressure.