seattle – Heart Happy Adventures

When traveling with high blood pressure, it can be challenging when it comes to lack of control over meals. If you’ve been following this blog, you know I am a big supporter of balance. Finding some kind of compromise is really the key; even during travel.

One way to gain some control and maintain a low salt diet when traveling is to choose hotels that have kitchenettes.

This way, if you indulge a little during lunchtime, you can grab a few simple ingredients to throw together a salad and enjoy with fresh fruit and nuts for dinner. This allows you to minimize the amount of salt and unhealthy fats for one of the meals.

It’s not the perfect solution, but I find perfection hard to keep up with. (I also have a post on tips for eating out, as that happens quite a bit during travels.)

I’m currently in Redmond, Washington and staying at the Hyatt House Redmond. It has a nice little kitchenette, living room, and bedroom. The rates are reasonable. The facilities aren’t fancy, but they meet my goals of space and control over what I eat. The staff is nice, and there are beautiful trails right outside the door. More on that later!

See below for a few photos. Have you ever made your own meals when traveling? If you have any easy go-to recipes to share, I would love to hear!

Hyatt House Redmond has kitchenettes, which helps with making low salt meals during travel.

It’s always a joy to have the opportunity to visit a different place. I’m currently visiting the beautiful Washington State, one of my favorite destinations. This trip, I’m staying in Redmond (located 15 miles East of Seattle) and rented a car for my adventures.

I love Seattle and its vicinity for many reasons, but I’ll focus on just one of them today! There are so many beautiful local and state parks to explore. Within the parks are often opportunities to find hiking trails.

Hiking is a fun and unique way to work in some excellent cardiovascular exercise. To lower blood pressure naturally, I aim to do 30 minutes of exercise daily. Having the opportunity to hike breaks up the monotony of the daily neighborhood walk. In addition, hiking helps to improve your balance and agility as it challenges your body to move in different ways than just walking on flat ground.

I drove to Cama Beach Historical State Park and cherished a lovely hike on the Bluff Trail which connected to the Marine Trail. Beautiful views of lush green forest foliage leading to sparkling blue waters sure made exercising for lower blood pressure great fun today!

You’ll find a few photos from the hike below! Are you a fan of hiking? What’s your favorite place to hit the trails?