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Your diet plan may leave you with a figure you are not happy with. If you consume less calories than you expend, you will lose weight of course. But reducing meat & fat intake, especially at the same time you become calorie restricted is likely to cause a lot of muscle loss.
So you are likely to end up with the same figure you have now, only less of it. Skinner arms and a belly just as round by comparison.
A more sensible approach would be to restrict calories whilst giving leeway for high nutrition/value items like meat, eggs or oily fish. Totally ditch sugar, and sweet treats you have. And only carb up when you need to, only have fruit/pasta/beer etc after long bike rides. Other days fish/meat/eggs and vegetables, greens etc...
Eating more intelligently can help you improve your figure, lose the gut, have more energy, fight off diabetes, maintain or even increase muscle and feel healthier overall.
With fat intake, ditch all the unhealthy fats like cheap refined veg/sunflower/corn oil, instead use olive oil, butter or make use of the fat from meat & fish. Saturated fat is good for your testosterone production, which will help you be more lean, muscular and athletic. It is also stable when used for frying unlike vegetable oils which breakdown and become harmful. They are also associated with heart disease. As long as the animals the fat came from were grass fed, then the fat will be very very good for you. Just like fish oil.
If you want to avoid fat altogether for fear of calories, then eat leaner meat. Many cheap options like chicken liver which is practically free.