Advice on Cardio vs Strength Training while losing weight

First of all you're female, so you can't bulk up without taking something.
I didn't lose what you have as your goal, but everything I've read from trainers etc says don't wait to lift. And remember, muscle burns fat. So maybe mix it up and one week lift 3 days and cardio 2 days then the next week switch it up and do 3 days cardio and 2 lifting. Just don't lift on back to back days, give your muscles time to recoup and repair.
Just my opinion, good luck on your journey.

you're not going to bulk up unless you take steroids

Judging by what you said, you want to be lean and strong, which is my goal as well. I would start with cardio, but you could alternate between days. Strength training is important for weight loss (muscle burns more than fat) so the two combined is not a bad idea. Plus stronger muscles mean you'll be able to go longer with cardio too! It's been working wonders for me!!

You should try to do some resistance training about three times a week so you don't loose muscle mass and mix in core work (Abs, Lower Back, Hips, etc).
Keep the weights not too light but so you feel your doing something and not there just going through the motions.
That will help burn fat long term as they'll keep your metabolism up when you're not doing cardio.
Also as you get fitter try Interval Training for Cardio about once a week too.

I was told that weight loss begins in the kitchen, and for me it has been a healthy diet that has helped me lose about 50 pounds. But an active lifestyle is an important part of my overall committment to wellness. Others are right: You will not bulk up. I spent countless hours on the treadmill without results. It was logging my calories & having a 500-calorie deficit (daily, on average) that has helped me lose. As I have lost weight I have become able to intensify my activity. I am a 54-year old woman who started Body Pump about six months ago. I love it. Since I am eating at a deficit I will not add muscle. However, strength training will help me preserve the muscle I have, and I can become stronger. Resistance training will keep your metabolism going long after you've ended your work-out.

I've lost weight both ways, I lost a little faster doing only cardio but when I combined cardio/strength training my body looked much better.

She is completely vegan and I'm pretty sure she would never touch the stuff. Thats more of what I was referring to. Not like men bulky, but woman bulky.

she is natural as natty graham

Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I'm 33, 5'11" and I have 70 lbs to lose to get in my healthy range, but I'd like my ultimate goal to be 90 lost. I spent a little under a year some time ago working out with a personal trainer once a week and I didn't see much weight loss, but I was not watching my eating as well as I do now.

My current feeling with the amount of weight I need to lose is that I should stick to cardio for about 3/4 of my journey then start strength training again since i don't feel that I got results before. I'm a girl so I'm not looking to bulk up, more long and lean. But am I short changing myself? Has anyone else been in this position before? I'd love to hear what others have done.

First, even with weight lifting you won't bulk up. Girls don't bulk up, they don't have the hormones for it natually. The ones who say they do really have more fat than they think they do. Want proof? ask them for their DXA scan. If there is no DXA scan their methods are highly inaccurate.

Lifting weights is KEY. I recently had my DXA scan done and at 51.5 years of age I have the bone density of a super athletic 30 year old. That is a direct result of lifting for over 30 years. Now if that is not scientific proof that lifting weights keeps you younger I don't know what is! Also I believe it is why most people think I look much younger than I really am.

Start lifting now, lift heavy and change it up often, find a lot of weight routines with free weights, make it fun, embrace it, make it part of your life. Only 3 days a week is all it would take. Crank up your tunes and learn to love it, because your body will love it and it will make your quality of life better in many ways, especially when you get older like me.

Because of this I don't have to worry about osteoporosis. If you wait until you are older and your bones start to deteriorate it's a bit too late, you can't get back what you lost, and you can only start a resistance routine that will prevent further damage.

If you are female you don't have the hormones to get big naturally. I lift heavy and I'm still really tiny. My lean body mass is only 104 lbs and that is fairly heavy for a 5'1" female, and quite a bit of this is due to my having very dense bones from 30 years of lifting, not all muscle, and I'm still quite tiny.

My muscles really are not that big, but they show a lot of definition because I'm quite lean. If I gained some fat then I would have a softer more toned look (which is OKAY too!). Then if I gained more fat I would look bulky and hefty like I did most of my life until last year. YOU CAN HAVE WHATEVER YOU WANT. Lean and ripped, soft and toned, or hefty, it all depends on how much fat you leave on your body. Calories are the only thing that changes fat. Exercise is for changing or maintaining your lean body mass only. Lifting weights will give you the best bang for your buck for shaping your body. I finally changed my shape by putting lifting first and cardio 2nd. You cannot out exercise too many calories.

Exercise is for making your lean body mass pretty (especially lifting weights) for when the fat is gone. Losing fat with no muscle is ugly and cardio alone will not make you pretty. You cannot out exercise too many calories.

I love cardio for it's health benefits but it really won't do much for your shape and it does not burn near the calories anyone thinks it does. I ran marathon after marathon, and even ultra marathons thinking I could lose weight and in fact gained weight because I didn't realize how small I really am (until all the fat was finally gone) and that small people like me need far less calories than everyone else. You are tall so you will be able to eat more. Everyone thought I had big bones all my life, LOL. Not so.

you're not going to bulk up unless you take steroids

This.

Women can gain muscle but they won't get all bulky unless they're taking stuff.

There is a trainer at my gym that looks like one of those crazy body builder women. She is completely vegan and I'm pretty sure she would never touch the stuff. Thats more of what I was referring to. Not like men bulky, but woman bulky.

well let me put it this way. you have too much body fat to look like a "crazy body builder woman" or do you seriously think you'd be able to lose 20% of your body fat after doing a few deadlifts and bench presses?

you're not going to bulk up unless you take steroids

This.

Women can gain muscle but they won't get all bulky unless they're taking stuff.

There is a trainer at my gym that looks like one of those crazy body builder women. She is completely vegan and I'm pretty sure she would never touch the stuff. Thats more of what I was referring to. Not like men bulky, but woman bulky.

Being a vegan does not necessarily contradict taking roids so that is not a valid assumption.

On a deficit, you will not gain muscle mass except possibly a few pounds. Other than that, women, under ideal conditions which is intensive training and eating a cr*p ton of food can only gain 1/2lb of muscle a month.

You will not get bulky.