Hi there Chads.
I wanted to tell you i think its great that you are gearing up to shead some pounds.
I also wanted to share my experience with you.
1. Just by eating less,sugar,fats ande carbs in your daily deit will cause you to drop pounds of weight.
Weight loss works like this it's very simple.
A pound of fat cells is 3500 calories in order to lose weight a person must cause a calories deficit in their daily deit.
An example would be this cut back on sugar,fats and highcarb make a calories deficit of 250-500 calories in your regular deit and workout either with weight training or walking for 45minute to an hour 3 times a week to burn 300-500 caloires a day with the 250-500 calories deficit.
Following a plan like that will cause you to lose 1-2 pounds of FAT a week !
its a slow process buty once you start dropping pounds you will get motiveated and highten your workout's intensity.
(note, if you can't workout or you don't want to then just by causing a no more then a 500 caloires deficit ,you will lose 1 pound a week thats 4lbs a month x12 =48 lbs of fat a year. With cardio or strenght training maybe double that of 48lbs in a year.
Make sure you eat carbs and healthy fats .healthy fats are momosaturated and in my opinion saturated fats.
YOu need to have a carb source of you wont be able to lift weights or walk very far.Remember carbs are muscles main fuel soruce.
lowcarb ideas, wholegrain or muliti grain breads,crackers,also they can be found in regular oatmeal. Low carbs are found in green veggies,eggwhites.brownrice Mix low carb with high protien meats found in lean steak,turkey,fish and chicken meat.
Instead of using sugar use slpenda. that will help in the long run ,also if you stop drinking soda all together you will lose even more weight. If you can't stop drinking soda switch to deit soda or have a regular soda once in a while.
Don't eat fast food and high fat and greese foods that often,
don't eat as much in a sitting and eating more often will cause your stomach to shrink and help your metabolism speed up,so you'll be burning more calories during your resting basal rate.
If you don't know how many calories you eat a day. Then you should write down all the calories you in a day on a peice of paper,and then start a deficit from there.
Also its importaint that you know for your hightand weight how many calories you should be eating a day. For a rough figure see the basal metabolic rate chart.
http://www.muscleandstrength.com/tools/Bathmater-and-daily-calorie-calculator.html
I don't give out actually workout advice persay because i have no idea if you have a health problem or not. I don't know how strong you are and what you can handle verses what you can't handle. ONLY YOU DO.
I can only suggest, compound excercises useing freeweights. Such as benchpress,standing military press,upright rows,bent over rows,squats,deadlifts,lundges,goodmornings.
Compound exercises workout more then one major minor muscle groups at once cause a more rapid responce in gaining size or burning calories depending on what results you are looking for.
Good luck.