strength training with no cardio?

I shared this on another thread, but it's applicable, I think, to what you want to know:

The idea is that it's: 80% diet, 10% exercise, and 10% genetics. If you've plateaued from dieting, OR you want to eat the same and still lose weight, then cardio is good at helping with that. However, if you want to see real changes in your shape, I highly recommend heavy lifting.

***Just throwing this out there: I lost 35 lbs. without doing ANY exercise. At the time, I felt like engaging in a fitness routine was unsustainable, for me. Now, that I'm reaching my goal size, I'm finding that exercise, specifically, weight lifting is most important to reaching my esthetic goals. I STILL have to watch my intake, of course. Cardio is the last on my list, for my goals.***

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Will lifting with no cardio help with weight loss at all? I do have a bunch of weight to take off, but I'd prefer to focus on getting strong (along with eating healthier).

If you want to loose, I strongly recommend you to do cardio. You will burn a ton of kcal. Just by adding between 2-3 sessions of cardio and without changing your diet, you will loose weight quickly.

“Is it okay to do? What kind of results might you expect to see?”
“Will lifting with no cardio help with weight loss at all?”

Sure it's OK, as in it's not going to harm you.

Lifting weight will re-shape your body, make you more lean & compact, so you're going to lose inches & your clothes will fit better. But it's not going to do much, if anything, toward losing weight. In fact, initially you'll probably gain weight because muscle weighs more than fat per volume.

Muscle burns more calories per gram of tissue than fat, so it will increase your metabolism & have you burning more calories even at rest, but it's not a big enough difference to do much toward losing weight.

You'll burn more calories per minute doing cardio.

“Any recommendations for a beginner?”

1 - Start off by checking with your doctor to be sure exercise is safe for you, and discuss what a healthy goal weight is for you / your husband.

2 - Next, figure out your goal weight (if your doctor didn't already help you with this) & calories.
Here's a BMI chart: http://www.shapeup.org/bmi/bmi6.pdf
Find your height, and as a start, aim for the highest number in the green range (look to the top of the chart). If you want to adjust by a few pounds once you get there, worry about that later. So for example if you're 5'6” your goal is 150 lb.
(I'm 5'10", my initial goal is 170, which will be 105 lb down from where I was JAN14.)

The best way to control weight is to control what you eat, because it's hard to burn off calories and very easy to eat them.
It can take me an hour on the elliptical to burn 650 calories, but that's a medium chocolate malted at Culver's, which I can eat in 10 minutes.

The easiest way to figure out a healthy amount of calories is to take your goal weight & multiply it by 10. This is what my doctor & nutritionist do. So using the example of 5'6” & 150 lb, your goal should be 1500 calories. That will slowly bring you to 150 lb.

Another simple way to figure out your goal calories is to use your current weight to get the current calories needed to maintain that weight (multiply it by 10), then subtract 500 (to lose a pound a week) to 1000 (to lose 2 lb per week).
NEVER go under 1200 calories per day unless you're supervised by a doctor.
If you're starting off in the red range on the BMI chart, 2 lb per week is reasonable. As you get closer to your goal, slow that to 1 lb per week.

3 - Next, figure out which weightlifting exercises you're going to do. Start with large muscle groups (for example, squats) & finish with smaller ones (for example, calf raises).
Always work both sides – biceps & triceps, quadriceps & hamstrings, abdominals and lower back extension, etc.

4 - Then for each weightlifting exercise, learn how to do it properly so you don't hurt yourself. Look at the diagrams on the machines, get the gym's personal trainer to explain everything, read books, do a web search, etc.
Machines are easier, but train isolated muscle groups.
Free weights take more technique, but they use more muscles in concert.

5 - Now for each exercise find out how much you can lift, the absolute maximum. This is called your one-repetition maximum, or 1RM.

a - If you want to build muscle mass, do 1-2 sets of 8-12 repetitions with the weight set at 70-85% of the 1RM. You should be working hard to do the last one. When you can do 12 easily, increase the weight by 5 lb & go back to doing 8.

b - To increase endurance, do 1-2 sets of 15-25 repetitions with the weight set at 50-70% of the 1RM. If you're not tired by the last 1 or 2, bump it up 5 lb.

You could alternate days between styles, but give yourself 1-2 days off in between workouts.
I'd start with building mass for a month or so before starting to work on endurance, so you have muscle to work with. You want to lift 2-3 days per week.

For the suggestions in #5, I'm getting my information from:
American College of Sports Medicine's Resources for the Personal Trainer, 4th Edition (2014).
(Mostly pages 378-9.)

Dumb question here.. So if I am aiming to lose one pound a week, giving me 1750 calories a day, and I'm eating under that amount - will I not be able to gain muscle with strength training?

You can gain STRENGTH while losing weight.

But you will not be gaining muscle mass while losing weight.

Unless you're new to lifting and get noob gains and are obese.

I am probably around 8 or 9% body fat currently (avatar is few weeks old) and I am coming near the end of my cut, I don't do ANY cardio. But I can control my diet and don't really get cravings.

Other people are different you gotta find what works for you.