Life-Long motivation issues
Gonna summarize a lot of things and water down a lot probably, since I don't believe any of you are interested in a life story.
I've struggled with motivation and low self-esteem for most of my life, most memorable being the entirety of my teen years until now. I say memorable because these years are the streak of years where I've sat infront of a computer playing games and it's really the only memories that my mind hasn't blocked out yet, and such. I've recently began cutting videogames and going as far as to uninstall the ones I had 500-7,000hrs into. Slowly my diet has improved slightly, but I wish to get into better nutrition plans and actually learn to cook.
The main issue I've ran into with starting again now is that I work 4 12 hour shifts and have 4 days off. On my 4 days off it's been a slow workout to get the motivation to start a routine. I lack motivation to stick to a diet as well, the longest streak without soda being a month. Things have improved considerably, especially considering I didn't even have the motivation to work and live towards a future until recently. Maybe this is the wrong section or I'm accidentally touching on more things than what's allowed on this board. I'm pretty new here and figured "hell, why not". Decided that maybe this board and website could actually lend some insight.
I've also just accepted that maybe most of this is mental and that to help deal with the underlying issues I should seek professional help to attempt to get my head on straight. But being in a bible belt town, I'm afraid to open up to even a professional due to the classic "Men shouldn't feel this way, it's all fake." stuff.