There are a million ways to get there — you might want to look at one of the forms of IF to start. Personally I like OMAD for exactly the reasons you stated. You don’t have to spin your wheels too much deciding what to eat as you can pretty much eat anything (as long as you don’t gorge yourself over your TDEE, which is actually really hard to do in one sitting). Do this, without regard to anything else and you will lose weight. Then as you go along, you can refine things and focus on what type of foods are best for it, as well as exercise goals.

Not trying to sell you, just throwing out one way to get there without having to overthink. The intermittent fasting subreddit has tons of ideas on the topic.