For context, I’m 5”9, male, started around 102kg and am now hovering around 74kg for the past 3 weeks. I started my deficit properly in march, so it’s been around 8 months now.
I’d say until around the beginning of September, I was consistently losing 4kg a month. I had a lot of plateaus but eventually by the end of the month/beginning of the next month, I was around 4kg lighter.
It started to slow in September, in total I’d lost around 3kg.
It seems to have gotten a lot worse this month, with my weight readings being so noisy every day that I started at 75kg, had a low of 73.7kg and am back up to 75.5kg 23 days into October. It feels like recently, my weight hovers, dips a bit, goes back up to how it was previously, and then I spend a week or two slowly getting back down to the slight dip. My weight has never fluctuated this much, so I think in combination with everything taking longer, it’s adding up to cause a lot of frustration. It feels brutal to do so much everyday just to feel like I’m not making any progress.
I haven’t changed anything with my deficit. I understand that as you lose weight, your body burns fewer calories, and therefore the same deficit won’t create as much fat loss. But I understand that to be a gradual decline rather than it falling off a cliff like it feels like it has done for me.
I just wanted to ask if anyone has had a similar experience, and if you did - what did you do? Do I need to just change anything or should I ride it out?