Motivation decline

 So I started doing Noom. I know it's bad for my eating habits, I was only interested in the articles, and did learn some useful things as well. One of them is the motivation model, which, very shortly means: one large peak and decline at the start, and then continuous slips and surges (yes, I did steal their terminology).

I am now going through a slip. Or is this my initial fall, since I was experiencing "success" for about 6 months?

It's also autumn, and I feel awful. I'm also going through what is, for me, a breakup - and for the person I used to refer to as my man, I have no clue. It sucks. I miss him terribly. And I'm not gonna tell him anything. But all this has made it so that I don't feel the same rush of happiness throughout or even at the end of my workouts, while my daily mood is still low. I'm not sure, what to do - if I stop, it can only get worse, but I'm also not as motivated to keep it up.

The one thing that still sparks joy in me is noticing progress - in pictures, in poses, in clothes, on the scale, you name it. Progress, though, is not linear. I'm trying to find some hacks to keep my motivation up, because, as I said above, if I stop the workouts, it can only get worse - and I'm not ready to bear anything worse than this.

It might result in producing an episode that is depressive enough for me to actually get diagnosed with depression and be put on meds - who actually needs that? I just need some love.

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