I don't want to be a FAT Dad

I'm new. I'm Jon. 30 years old with two young kids. I want to lose weight (fat) to get healthier, have more energy and look better.

I'm currently 236 pounds and basically have been around 230 or so for the past 6 or 7 years. When they look back, most people say they were in the best shape of their lives when in their 20's. I'm planning on saying I was in my best shape in my 30's. Now its time to do the work to make that happen. I want to get to 200 (or maybe touch 199 for a day!) to have more energy, be healthier and look better.

Up until a year ago or so I hadn't really accepted things. I played sports in high school and still thought of myself as athletic, just with a spare time. That's not the case. I get winded walking up two flights of stairs. I'm weak too, physically. I used to have a strong grip and good overall muscle strength, but sitting at a desk all day with no exercise for several years will take that from you. So anyhow, my goal here is to lose fat, gain energy, and just get my body into a healthy shape overall.

I'm also a bit of a workaholic. That's been my excuse the past few years. I run my own business so my work is never done. I've also put work as a higher priority than my health. Its hard not to, b/c work has hard deadlines but your health doesn't work that way. In any event, I still work too much and that is another problem but for the time being I'm going to just squeeze 1 hour a day away from work and put that into exercise.

I'm going to aim for 30 minutes in the AM and 30 minutes in the PM too for exercise. I'm hoping that will help boost my metabolism. I'm not a big fan of doing cardio. I'll do that for a while to drop some initial pounds but ideally want I want to do is build strength, build muscle and boost my metabolism and get into a more active lifestyle in general so that I don't need to do as much cardio specifically as exercise.