Motivation Lacking
I have been struggling with eating better and losing weight for like the past year and a half or so. I have always eat fairly well, and now I am transitioning to vegan diet, my biggest struggle being cheese and yogurt because holy fuck tits is cheese and yogurt amazing.
I've always worked out regularly since high school, but more and more it's becoming harder and harder to motivate myself to go workout, and to be honest it's getting hard to motivate myself to do anything; cook, dress up cute, clean, play with my dog. And I'm not sure why.
I have GAD, and about a year ago I started taking venlafaximine (sp?) and I am at 75 mg at the moment and it helps so much with my anxiety but I'm wondering if it is affecting my motivation? Or maybe my lack of motivation is a sign that I should bump my medicine up? (Lack of motivation can be a sign/symptom of GAD). If anyone has experience with this and has any advice I would love to hear about it.
Other things in my life are fairly good, I have a stable job, my partner has a stable job, the sucky thing though is that we are barely making enough money to live in our apartment (we recently moved to colorado and we did not anticipate the increased tax that is being taken out of his paycheck) so that is some added stress. I'm technically a registered dietitician and the only job I have been offered after applying for jobs virtually everyday for 5 months is a job at an albertsons for 8 dollars an hour Of course I'm glad I have at least a full time job that pays me some sort of money, it is really upsetting to me on a lot of levels that I have been applying to so many jobs and putting my resume out there and I still haven't landed a job that utilizes my college education that gained me 66,000 dollars in debt. I'm thankful I'm not homeless but I do wish I was doing better.
All in all though, if you have experience with venlafaxamine or GAD and you can give me advice on the lack of motivation and stuff I would really appreciate it right now.