I take meds for HTN...my resting HR was running over 100BPM when I was drinking and my diastolic (lower number) was in the 90s....
since i have stopped drinking my resting HR is now in the 80s (and I just started back with cardio and weights 10 days ago) and my diastolic is in the high 70s to low 80s...I had to cut my HTN meds in 1/2....I hope to be able to go off of them the next time I visit my doctor....It was also pointed out to me that my wine consumption yielded a lot of empty SUGAR calories....which contributed to me feeling like crappola...I was inching closer to Type II diabetes with my fasting glucose....this also sapped my energy and made it extremely difficult to progess and lose weight even when I went to the gym REGULARLY...
talk about self-sabotage!