Twenty-two weeks of weekly weights, 18.4 kg total. Split it at week ten and the two halves don't resemble each other: roughly 1.3 kg/week early, about 0.5 kg/week since. Waist tape moved 14 cm, so something is still shifting even while the scale drags.
I don't read this as failure. The early period was water and a steep deficit correcting itself. What's left looks more like actual energy balance, and I now have to eat like a person with a job.
The question I'm sitting with: treat the slower slope as the new baseline, or raise protein and resistance volume first before touching anything else? Cutting intake further just to move the number feels like the wrong lever.
For those past the midpoint — did your rate settle into a stable band, and when did you stop benchmarking the second half against the first?