Ex-NCAA football player, tied down with studying, studying, and more studying ...and research

I used to be in prime shape all throughout my life, especially in high school and college. I'm 6'0 and in college I was a solid 225 of pure muscle had incredible combine results for my size (38.5 vertical, 4.58 in 40 yard dash, and a 4.07 pro agility). I played inside linebacker in college and both, fullback and inside linebacker in high school. Was all state 1st team and 1st team super state in Nebraska for linebacker. Well after my redshirt freshman year I had about 6 major concussions with the last one being very serious to where I was hospitalized for days and then was told I cannot play football or contact sports anymore. Football was my life, but beside that I also had very ambitious goals in school, I double majored in medicinal chemistry and biotechnology throughout college and received both of those BS degrees. After football ended for me I got down to 208, most likely because I lost a large amount of muscle mass because I wasn't able to do any physical activity for a few months. Well then I never really returned to a workout routine, it was always on and off, but this past year had me at 237 lbs this past Sunday. I said enough is enough. Plus my friends do not think I'm capable of losing 29 pounds in 60 days. It's been 4 days and I'm already down 10 pounds, but I know the first 10 are the easiest. I don't just want to do it to prove them wrong, I wanna be healthy, in shape, and feel better about myself. I saw that my mood correlated highly with my weight. Glad to be here and I'm ready to kick some *kitten*!