First off, never drink an "energy" drink again. Meaning those garbage might-as-well-be-poison drinks like Monster and Red Bull. These work to an extent, but for a very short time, and as with most sugary things, just have your body asking you to have more ALL THE TIME. That's the key with sugars and sodas, they trick your body into thinking you need more. Something like Powerade or Gatorade is an entirely different thing (powerade is brilliant if you get a stomach flu, for instance). If you need some caffeine, just drink coffee! A drink that is, at least by today's general assumptions, healthy
I would recommend getting into a training program. Not necessarily a private trainer, but a group of people being trained in a closed environment. I bet there are some of those going on in a gym near you. Yes that does mean going into a gym, but you'll get used to it right away. I have developed a social anxiety as I have gotten older for some reason, it seems to get worse every year. But I made myself go into the gym and into a training group as I first mentioned, and it has worked out quite well. And the trainer is key because he will give you varied exercises and show you how to use the gym equipment. Now I go to the gym just to run, row, lift weights and do all sorts of things.
The key part in all this is that you are breaking a habit. Bad habits are fuckers that do not wish to be fucked with in anyway, and that's why you need to pull down their pants and go to work. Luckily for you, the idea is stop eating/drinking garbage and start eating healthy and exercising. So you are replacing the bad habit with a good one. After a while (it's going to fucking suck at first) of exercising regularly, you will not want to stop, because you have made a habit out of it. You won't become a Greek god in six months but that's fine, you are not doing Biggest Loser, you are not going in to lose a lot in a short time only to gain it all back in an even shorter time. You are better off playing the long game.
It's going to take a while, and don't beat yourself up if you fall down on the way because that happens to everybody. Hell, I am going to town on Christmas meals right now but I know I'll make it up in the new year.
So just go for it right away, any little thing you change/do helps, if you ACTUALLY DO IT.
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