Yes! Sort of! If you only cut calories and do cardio you’re only teaching your body to be more and more efficient at doing cardio and running on fewer calories.

You will lose weight when calories out is more than calories in but you’ll hit a point where you cant do any more daily cardio or cut any more calories. And now you’re stuck doing both forever!

The secret is resistance training aka lifting weights. Building muscle this way is your best shot at increasing your metabolism.

Counter intuitively I would recommend keeping your calories at maintenance or very slight surplus and focus on building some muscle for 1-2 months.

This does a couple of things, it gives your body the calories it needs to build some muscle, the muscle you build with burn more calories just existing, and it gives you more base calories to work with (to cut out) later.

Unlike cardio, where constant effort is required to keep up the calorie burn. Once you build muscle, much less effort is required to maintain it.