I was running around the normal range most of the time, sometimes higher, before starting this plan
but I was taking the maximum daily dose of a blood pressure medication (either lisinopril or diovan) as well as two daily doses of lasix to maintain that. Without that medication I would have been above Dr. McDougall's maximum safe limit of 160/100 for no more than 30 days before medication would be advised.
Now that I've been at this for two months, I'm taking nothing for blood pressure and it almost never goes above 140/90 and is usually around 130/75 or so. That, and I'm still carrying over
200 extra pounds. My blood sugar is also normalizing with the medications I'm on, whereas before I was a candidate for small doses of insulin (but only recieved it during hospital stays for cellulitis infections of the leg and/or foot).
So, already I can attest to great changes in both blood pressure and blood sugar, just by following this lifestyle faithfully. Stick with this and eventually you will have the same results or something fairly similar.