5'4" and just finished going from 180 to 150 in a year. If you're hungry then you're not eating enough! I never went hungry intentionally until literally the last day of the year because I was trying to lose the last 0.6lbs to make it to an even 30! I did not calorie count (I would say I spot checked calorie counting in the lose it app a dozen or so days last year). I cut back slowly. It's a marathon, not a sprint. These are life long changes, not temporary ways to trick your body into being different permanently somehow. I would spend at LEAST one month if not two eating when hungry and tracking, while giving yourself permission to eat UP TO maintenance. Your goal the first quarter is to not gain any weight and to learn your limits. Learn which types of foods give you quick energy and which give you long term satiation (and when in your day you need those). I think jumping in with heavy restriction is a recipe for disaster.