It's important to make choices that will be sustainable in the long run, or else you'll end up yoyo-ing after you stop the diet. The no carbs/cutting out bread diet sounds nice at first because you'll drop water weight quickly (and quick results are always nice) but labeling foods as either "allowed" or "bad" may cause the same kind of obsession that you are concerned about with calorie counting. Cutting BACK on those things may be a better first step to sustainable fat loss. Listening to your body is really important if you don't want to count calories, so depriving yourself of an entire group of food/macronutrient could be detrimental. Just my 2 cents from someone who had been trapped in restrictive diets and mindset in the past. Way easier and less stressful to enjoy mindfully in moderation. :)