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Well, my health has actually had enough of an upswing that I feel good enough to go to an actual gym in order to actually better myself physically and hopefully keep up medically. However, I don't know the first thing about exercise other than "lift with your legs, not with your back." Should I go with a bigger gym (24hour fitness is closer to me, but they're pozzed for certain) or a smaller one that may not have as many options? What vitamins and/or supplements should I stock up on to pair with exercise to ensure I'm not lacking anything essential, if any can't be obtained best with food? Any good starter groups of exercises to work into the whole routine?

Lambast me for being an idiot all you want, but there's a bunch of clutter around trying to learn about fitness, lots of people who lie or over complicate to get cash or attention. On the flip side, back in high school, the most the PE teacher did was say "This machine is good for this, those machines are good for that, go nuts" when unleashing the class on the weight room. Which didn't help either, because he didn't actually talk about actual healthy gym time or a good balance.

Well, my health has actually had enough of an upswing that I feel good enough to go to an actual gym in order to actually better myself physically and hopefully keep up medically. However, I don't know the first thing about exercise other than "lift with your legs, not with your back." Should I go with a bigger gym (24hour fitness is closer to me, but they're pozzed for certain) or a smaller one that may not have as many options? What vitamins and/or supplements should I stock up on to pair with exercise to ensure I'm not lacking anything essential, if any can't be obtained best with food? Any good starter groups of exercises to work into the whole routine? Lambast me for being an idiot all you want, but there's a bunch of clutter around trying to learn about fitness, lots of people who lie or over complicate to get cash or attention. On the flip side, back in high school, the most the PE teacher did was say "This machine is good for this, those machines are good for that, go nuts" when unleashing the class on the weight room. Which didn't help either, because he didn't actually talk about actual healthy gym time or a good balance.

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The most important part of it is to show up. Plan it in your daily calendar and go. Even if you don't feel like it, just go. There will be days you absolutely don't want to and your lazy brain will make all kinds of excuses. Just go.

Start small. You're not used to working out so start with very low weights, even the smallest ones possible and do a good amount of reps. If you kill yourself on day one, the chances of you not going back day 2 are huge. You might want ro start at home and see if you can keep up with even push-ups. Start with a low number, 20 as an example. If that is too high for you, take it down, even to one if you have to. Do the one push-up. 2 hours later, do another. 2 hours later 2 another. Do that until you have sets of one push-ups done on day one.
Day 2, increase each set to 2, now you have just doubled your work since yesterday. Day 3, you're at 15 push-ups. By day 20, you'll be knocking out 100 push-ups a day. That might be an impossible thought for you now, but in 20 days you'll be proud of yourself.

If something happens along the way, you hurt your foot or something, and you can't put weight on it, do modified push-ups (girl pushups) where you have the weight on your knees. You owe these push-ups to yourself, and if you're not going to pay yourself, why should anyone else? Keep building. If you have to stay at a certain number for a few days do so, but don't miss the days.

Along the way, you'll feel like you have more energy. Start doing some lunges or other body weight exercises. Build yourself up slowly, but progressively. This will help you avoid getting injured from exercises.

Don't give a shit about what anybody says. If someone is already super fit and they shit on you, they're an asshole, which is pretty rare. If they're a slob and they shit on you, take names and make sure to go say "hi" in a year from now and watch their jaw drop. You do this for you, you decided to do it, so do it because you want to and you want the results.

When you get into weights, same thing. Start low and build up over time. Don't juice with roids, there are no shortcuts and the consequences are not worth it.

Help your liver out. Get rid of seed oils, cook your food in olive oil or coconut oil. Eat lots of eggs and beef, with a good amount of fat in it. Have some cruciferous vegetables with it. Steam them to nullify the anti nutrients.

TRACK YOUR PROGRESS DAILY. You can't manage something that you don't measure.

Make sure you never miss a day. This is such key point. You want the results, you have to do what it takes. You will only do what it takes if you make it a part of your life. Coke heads do coke. Gym bros go to the gym. Whatever it is you want, make that a part of yourself.

Take a picture of yourself now. Save it and take one a year from now and show us the improvements. You asked for our help, we provided. Now do the hard work.