I grew up with a mother who ate it constantly thinking it was diet food, but as soon as I needed to diet, it was suddenly fattening. Unfair! I adore cottage cheese and fruit!
They now have regular, 2% and fat-free cottage cheeses. So you can limit the fat (though I find the low-fat tastes sour).
I didn't know it had too much salt, and I don't have any around to see how much there is.
Salt isn't fattening, you know. It has to be limited for people who have heart and blood pressure problems, and it may cause you to retain water, which adds pounds on the scale - but not fat pounds, just water weight.
So you can work it in. Just decide whether you need to lighten up on salt somewhere else. Maybe you don't, if you're eating mostly non-processed foods and not adding a ton of salt to things.