I'm 25 and in the exact same situation as you, except that my baseline is probably a more like 135/80 or even 140/80. I know that weight loss works, because a

I'm 25 and in the exact same situation as you, except that my baseline is probably a more like 135/80 or even 140/80. I know that weight loss works, because a couple of years ago when I weighed about 40 lbs. less, it tended to be more like 130/80. But then I quit smoking (which I had taken up for ~3 years by that point) and started eating the world. Yes, ironically by BP was lower when I abused the crap out of stimulants, smoking and drinking coffee around the clock like a champ. However, I think those things are unrelated; significantly lower weight might have offset all that. I am very wary of physicians' periodic mumblings about putting me on hypertension meds soon because this could be doing "silent damage". I'm aware of that. But I know several hypertensive people, in otherwise good health and relatively young age, who had anomalous, out-of-the-blue heart attacks or strokes suspected to be linked to side effects of calcium channel blockers or other hypertension medication. It makes me very wary. It seems to me the only safe adjustments to BP outside of a gerontological context can be made through lifestyle and weight changes.