Avoid:
-Refined foods or any sort. Sugars, corn syrup, white flour, etc. Replace with fruit juice sweetened stuff and whole grains.
-Fried anything. If you want to have something fried, panfried in olive oil, no breading, is the best you can do.
-Ground beef... the stuff at restaurants is RARELY the good, lean beef. Learn to love veggie burgers or turkey burgs. Much better!

And remember to drink lots and lots of water, as your body needs it to metabolize fat.

Your plan sounds good! I just want to add it's easier to stick with if you have a workout buddy!

Good luck!