Hi

Welcome!

Welcome to the community.

The best first bits of advice I can think of are:

• Plan to go slow. If you are trying to lose weight, remember you didn't gain it in a month or a year; take the slow route to help assure success. Then it will be easier to maintain when you reach goal.
• Don't plan any strategies you aren't willing to continue indefinitely. Only do things that are sustainable in the long run.
• Plan on having a reasonable calorie deficit, on average, each week. Best if you can manage a small deficit each day, but if you miss a day, don't fret. Just keep going forward. Stick to it.
• Yeah, that's it's own point: STICK TO IT!
• Set reasonable but challenging goals. Set long-term and short term goals. What are some specific goals you have set for yourself?
• Check in often. Don't stress if the scale is up for the day. Look over the long term trend; weight loss is not linear. You'll have up and down days. Over time, if you maintain a deficit, you'll trend down.
• Exercise is very healthy for fitness. It can contribute to a calorie deficit and aid in weight management. You still must manage your food intake to assure a calorie deficit. Logging your food and your activity in MFP will help you get an idea how to slowly adjust your target for success.

My best generic tip is to chip away at reading the "Most Helpful Posts" sections in the Getting Started and Health and Weight Loss parts of the MFP Community. Those are posts by regular MFP users that were nominated by other MFP users to stick around long term rather than disappearing into distant history, because they found the post/thread so useful. There's gold in there.

There's a "Most Helpful Posts" in some of the other topic areas, too, but those mentioned above are the really good ones for someone new.