Time for Laurel the expert again! LOL!
The best way to do it is really gradually otherwise, strangely enough, your body will think it's starving or that there's a food shortage or something and will actually start storing fat!  So a goal of more than one pound a week at first might be a bit much, though you could certainly gradually work up to it.
Ok, 1 pound of body weight = about 3000 calories, so you'd have to cut out about 430 calories EACH DAY (that is, eat 430 fewer calories than you're eating now) to lose 1 pound per week. Or, for your goal of 1.85 a week, you'd have to cut out (if my math is correct here) about 790 calories a day.
The best way to do it is to find something you eat regularly that you probably shouldn't (like candy or another high calorie food) and either cut it out completely or replace it with a lower calorie food.
For example: if you usually ate 5 pieces of candy every day, that's 118 calories/day that you could easliy get rid of, or a quarter of a pound a week! You can usually find some easy low calorie substitute for healthier foods too: try replacing potatoes with sweet potatoes or fruit juice with applesauce etc. Then add up your calorie deficit each day, trying to get it up to your goal. Like I said it may be best to work up to a 3000 or more deficit per week, to let your body get used to the process of losing weight.
Of course another really simple way to get rid of calories is exercise. I know you've been walking lately so make sure you put that in in the activites section - that counts as lost calories too (if you burn 100 calories on your next walk that's like a slice of bread/bowl of oatmeal/2 oz salmon/cup of applesauce/small potato.... ETC!)
Ohhh I've gotten so many people I know hooked on fitday.com! You'd think I got commission or soemthing! LOL Seriously though, it's a great site to learn all about the foods you put in your body and how your body works etc. etc. etc.
Anyway best of luck and if you have any more questions let me know!! 
Cheers, Laurel.
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