I just wandered in here somehow... pardon the intrusion. Here's a good place to start here on the forums. Chances are, you'll want more specific answers though:
Fat Loss Basics
The key is to keep it simple at first, keep learning from sources you trust (never follow advice that doesn't agree with your own sense of reason!) and eventually you'll become more savvy regarding diet and training.
Everyone starts somewhere, and often that is a diet or training program they found somewhere. In college, the catalyst for me and my girlfriend at the time was a book called "
Body For Life" by Bill Phillips. It outlines not a "diet", but rather a framework for you to be able to make a life change to better eating habits. Most people can even stop there if it fits their current needs (my mother made her own nutrition plan after reading this book, and follows a simple training program she got right out of the pages.) You'll get there. Big changes require a commitment the average person cannot/will not make. Don't be the average person