Got some advice to try this site.

Hi everyone, my name is Tom. A friend of mine told me to give this site a try, I made a New Year's Resolution to lose weight and get more active so let's see where I'm starting from.

I'm 480lbs, I am a professional gamer, so I don't really get much activity in my daily life. Roughly 8 hours a day is spent practicing with my squad in our house and we have 3 days off per week. How we do it is, Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, we practice, then have off Fri/Sat/Sun. I get up at around 5am everyday to be ready to start at 6:30. By 2:30 we're all finished and it's onto the rest of the day. I have not always been fat, I was heavy into football all through high school and then I severly injured my back and was no longer medically cleared to play, this is also the start of me playing video games. I used to be an athelete so I know some things but can't seem to do it.

Why am I here? I'm here mainly for motivation and help when things get hard. I don't know anything about dieting, I'm at a total loss, and have read article after article, sprouts are God, sprouts are Satan, sprouts give you cancer, sprouts cure cancer... and if you pull 100 people that have careers based on diet and health, they will have 100 different answers on what to do. Please help me in anyway and I'll do my best to help you, even if it's not weightloss related.