Just to give another perspective, I lost about weight by increasing my overall calories.
I was eating normally, what I would say is a standard UK trying to be healthy diet so, I mean three meals a day, based around starches, with lots of veg and minimal meat and dairy and healthy snacks of fruit and veg. The result was weight gain, low mood and total lack of energy.
Switched to a low carb diet, the weight disappeared without hunger. Now I just don't eat processed food, and avoid starches. My meals are meat, and dairy with sides of fresh veg. I also try and eat oily fish, and full fat dairy, to get healthy fats.
I occasionally track my nutrient intake just to see if I am getting all the vitamins and minerals I need, and that shows a calorie intake of between 2000 and 2300ish. And that maintains my weight loss without hunger or snacking.
Cutting calories does not always work, if it did people would do weight watchers once and trott slimly of into the distance. (If you are interested look into the Minnesota starvation experiment for a good account on how the body reacts to restricted calories.) The human body needs proteins and fats to function and maintain itself, it does not need carbs. Carbs can only be used a fuel or stored as fuel. So if the goal is weight loss, cutting carbs not eating the instant fuel, means you can use the fuel you have stored on your body- your body fat. If you are interested I recommend looking at Eric Westman or Jason Fung on Youtube, both explain how a ketogenic diet functions pretty well.
Either way, best of luck!
And if you are interested in focusing on nutrition and not calories, chronometer is a good app, it shows all the vitamins, minerals and essential amino and fatty acids that foods contain.