Thanks for your quick reply and offer to help. To answer your questions:
1. My history has been pretty slack the past couple years. With the 4 kids its kinda been on and off but I am willing to put whatever I have to in the gyme to reap positive results.
2. My nutrition is OK. It could be better but lately I have been coun ting my daily calorie intake and trying to keep it around 3200/day
You're welcome, man.
So here's the deal - first thing we're gonna do is nail down a solid workout plan as well as some better nutrition.
You can browse threads here or use google or other sites, as well, but there are TONS of good workout routines around. It's all about finding something that works for you. You want something that you know you'll do and you
want to do.
I'd suggest probably lifting 3x a week and doing a lot of compound movements / full-body workouts.
We also want to ease you into some cardio. We don't want to go balls out and burn you out. Baby steps.
Then on then nutrition; in theory, you can sit on a couch all day long and lose weight as long as you're eating the right number of calories. So you need to do some homework on finding out what your maintenance level of calories is - a calculator will do no good. You need to go off of what you've been doing and use some trial and error. Then once we find that, you want to eat slightly below that number.
All of the above information, without the help of any supplements or steroids will make a world of difference for you in starting out. Down the road, we can certainly work some other things into the mix for you.