welcome to the musclechat board barryfly
welldone for deciding to change your life,it will be well worth it.
u can get some good multigym equpiment here
http://www.bodypower.co.uk
they also offer free delivery.
a olympic set of weights and a bench press is another good thing to invest in,me and my mate trained in his garage for about a couple of years,made tremendous gains.
the best place to get standard plates from is argos,about 20 kg for 14.99
bargain.
like gareth said a high protein diet is a must,there are loads of different makes of protein powders about,so your spoilt for choice.
this will come very handy for when u cannot eat anymore.
a good fatburning supplement should contain ephedra,
ephedra based supplements ,preserve muscle while burning fat
they are going to banned soon in the us.
hope this helps mate
steve