I'm 231.8lbs at this moment, I want to be as close to 180 as I can by April 30, 2011. I would appreciate dearly some fittit wisdom.

On April 30th, I'm getting married. Ever since I proposed I've been telling myself that I was going to lose weight and get into shape for the wedding. Well it's been almost a damn year and I've done everything but.

I'm indescribably out of shape. I doubt I could jog a quarter mile straight. Running up a flight of stairs takes the wind out of me like a falcon punch to the diaphragm.

I plan on counting calories, I suppose something like 1700 a day is what I should be aiming for. I'm also a full time student, and I spend almost all day, every weekday at the college, and there's a gym open to me there. I just need to learn how to use it. Unfortunately the fitness club meets at the same time as my chem honors seminar, I was hoping to get one of those guys to teach me what I'm supposed to do once I'm in the gym. I'm sure it's more complicated that find something heavy and move it around.

Anyway, any advice and wisdom you can share would be wonderful, thanks in advance.