Emotional Eating raises Blood Pressure

This pic is of me at 200 lbs out eating with friends 8/2007. My face was so fat and round. I ordered a bunch of food this day.

Have you ever had a bad day and went to the refrigerator/pantry to soothe yourself? I did. After I had the baby (in may 2008) my blood pressure went up substantially. It skyrocketed to 140/95. My devastatingly high numbers weren't even enough to whip me into shape. In fact, I continued to buy salty processed foods, big bottles of salt to dump on food, and down a whole bag of crunchy, puffy, yummy cheetos in one sitting (the bigggg bag). One day I asked my husband to go and buy me a bag of cheetos (they were my favorite snack back when I wasn't eating healthy). I ate the WHOLE BAG in 1 hour while watching my favorite show 'Wife Swap'. Something told me to 'take my blood pressure' after I finished licking my cheesy fingers so i whipped out the electronic gadget and took the batteries out the remote to put in the blood pressure monitor. When the numbers popped up the machine started beeping with a red light (something I've never seeen it do). My blood pressure was up to 170/110! I will never forget seeing those numbers. I went into a panic. The first thing we do when we panic as human beings is go for a glass of water.
I went and had a bottle of water and hoped that my blood would stop pumping so hard against my veins as I down the whole 16 oz bottle. I then remembered that banannas are filled with potassium so they naturally lower your blood pressure. I ate one. I looked around the kitchen for more home remedies to lower my pressure. A-hah! I saw a box of oatmeal and I ate almost the whole box. I went and sat down and waited a half hour and took my pressure again. It was down to 150/99 which was better than the previous reading. That was another one of my a-hah moments where I finally decided to eat better and stop downing a whole bag of chips. That moment in my life is what took me to where I am today - on a journey to a better and healthier me. By the way, today my numbers sit at 116/78 and the highest i've seen it go in the past 6 months is 120/85. God is GOOD!!!!!!!