download and learn how to use myfitnesspal, maybe for 4-5 days just track what you eat and get an average of how many calories you're eating daily, then cut out 100-200 calories, wait 10-14 days and weigh yourself, repeat til you're as lean as you want
once you start to get into poverty level calories you can start throwing in cardio sessions and increase those as you need to make adjustments
general guidelines for nutrient timing would be high fat + protein and no carb for breakfast, and then pretty much low/no carbs up until your workout then getting all your carbs in right after you lift and before bed.
overall calories will be the dominating factor in losing weight, I'm assuming you know what your macros should be around since you commented in my thread saying my knowledge was lacking to give advice

if not 0.8-1.5 of protein per lb you weigh, 0.5-0.7g fat per lb you weigh and then the rest of your calories should come from carbs. when you're cutting out more calories, cut them out of carbs
the key is knowing how much you're eating/how much you're expending (track cals / cardio sessions) and making small adjustments until you reach your goal, if you go balls out and start with calories too low or too much cardio then you'll have no cards left to play once you stall
my cut lasted around 3 months and I went from 190 to 171-173ish and lost basically no muscle and kept making strength gains (in the squat especially)
This post was edited by FxG on May 17 2015 10:27pm