>>21476421 (OP)I can but won't unless you actually sit down and do the math. Cottage cheese typically is a good choice as a low calorie food since it hits near that magic 1kcal/1gram of food number. Which basically means it is very efficent in filling you up while keeping the calories low.
If you truly honestly actually want to loss weight you need to understand the basics of calories in calories out. It really is that simple. Find your total daily energy expenditure or TDEE using goole and finding a calculator. You plug in age/weight/height/sex/activity and it will shoot out a rough approximation of what your body requires each day to literally just keep you alive. Doing absolutely nothing but laying perfectly still for 24 hours this is what your body will burn.
Come in below this number. That is it. If you ingest less calories then your burn you loss weight. As the body will use your fat reserves to make up the difference. Each 1lb of fat is roughly 3,500 kcals so just quick and dirty math. Say your TDEE was 2,000 and you eat 1,000. You just forced your body to burn 1,000 kcal of fat to keep going. So in 3.5 days you have lost 1lb of fat. Savvy?
There is a bunch of bro science and bullshit about how your body will go into starvation mode or eat your muscle instead. Ignore this bullshit it is mostly false or wildly over exaggerated. Believe me I've done it. Used tobe 330lbs now I'm 155lb and I did it doing nothing but counting calories and fasting. Which is just a rapid means of cutting calories but that is a whole other thing.
Just find TDEE, come in below, enjoy more comfortable fitting pants.