17 days of weight stall, should I get more aggressive?

low-mid 20s bf male 5’10 205

4x a week lifting, 3x liss @ 140bpm 1hr.

calorie target: 2200, 200g protein

weighed in 205.4 on 2/5 and 204 flat on 2/14, and have for about a week weighed in at 206-207. The obvious explanation would be that I’m incompetent at weighing food and logging but I don’t really think that’s the case. Meanwhile I’ve been checking mid-day hydrated and post food weights as well and they’ve often been lower than the usual morning weigh ins. Subjectively my body fat seems to be taking on a flaccid mushy quality which I’ve seen anecdotally described frequently. Is that enough to chalk it up to water retention or should I just neck down the calories and add some more cardio?

I’m not sure if I follow your weight information and I don’t know what to make of of 2 spot weigh ins. I use weekly averages taken at the same time each day under similar conditions.

Your subjective feedback about the body composition is interesting, but what was it before- presumably worse if you’re losing weight. Also, 3 hours of steady state cardio per week?

Yeah sorry those were the only two I put pen to paper but I did step on the scale each morning and it was a relatively linear progression between those two points. I stopped eating garbage and got back into lifting around mid-November and lost about eight pounds (214 worst scale reading) with dramatic improvements in body composition but I haven’t budged in scale weight since early January hence starting an intentional cut in early February. Perceptively I do seem leaner by the day but still no dice on the scale, 206.8 this morning. 3 hours of liss didn’t seem too excessive as I’m in a chair at a computer for huge stretches of my day.

If your weight hasn’t changed, I would encourage you to increase the deficit and consistently hit that number. I’m cool with hours of activity per week- just want to make sure we have room to grow conditioning wise if/when things slow down again.