Cut carbohydrate rather than calories. Keep net carbs under roughly 20-30g a day, eat protein at about 1.6-2g per kg of target body weight so you do not lose muscle, and let fat make up the rest. Exer...
This. Eat electrolyte rich food like meat and spinach and avocado. Sodium, potassium, and magnesium are your friends. Don't worry about doctors freaking out about your sodium or cholesterol, they're simply wrong and believing in a pseudoscience that was debunked ages ago.