Welcome!
This is such a great forum! I just know that you will find what you need here and if you have any questions that they will be answered. When you have a few minutes start a Journal at the Journal site so that you have a place where you can log your progress and where we can all visit you. Starting a FitDay account is also handy. You can log what you eat there and set it up so that we can visit also and it's free. This is a tremendous help because if you get stuck we can help by going over your menu's to see if you are missing something.
FitDay is at: http://www.fitday.com/
Have a wonderful 4th!
Signey