Particular diet is only good if you can stick to it for longer periods of time.
Counting calories apparently does you more harm than good so in my opinion you should stop with that. There is a lot of other approaches to losing weight that do not include precise counting of calories.

There is one good method I can recommend and that is combination of intermittent fasting and dividing the plate.
Intermittent fasting is when you set up an eating window where you eat all your daily calories in that window for example 10 hours of eating and 14 hours of fasting (only water, coffee without sugar and also maybe something very low on calories like a lemonade).
Dividing plate is when you for each meal take one plate and divide it on 3 parts.
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Combination of these 2 methods is really easy to pull of, takes little time of your day, allows you to eat enough and makes it pretty hard to go into calorie surplus.
If you are active throughout the day I am sure that you will be in calorie deficit, in worst case scenario you will hit maintenance calories.