Unless you consume a HUGE amount of calories, you can simply eat when you are hungry, and stop when you are full, and cut the fat out of your diet and lose weight. One of the common methods of weight loss is cutting back on calories.
Many people make the mistake of cutting down their calories way too low.
You should watch your calories, but rather than slashing them so low, you can watch the fat grams and follow your body cues and still lose weight. Sure, if you overeat, you will gain weight whether or not your food is low in fat or high in fat. But actually depriving your body and going hungry is a sure way to fail at losing weight permanently. Most people still count calories in order to lose weight because they don't know any better. People do this because the nutritionists have told us that a pound of fat contains 3500 calories, which is true.