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I found fasting 24 hrs (eg Monday evening 7pm to Tuesday evening 7pm) once a week accelerated things for me.
What is your height and recommended caloric intake for maintenance?
Do you do strength training? If not, look up Sal DiStefano on YouTube - he talks about the issue with caloric restriction / reduction to lose weight. It will work for a while but not sustainable long term (both to keep the fat loss off and lose more). Of course the first few pounds you shed so “quickly” with caloric reduction so it’s way more motivating - but the best strategy is building muscle and eating protein every meal - but this one is a super slow process compared to the first one - but it will be sustainable for life.
I’m talking sustainability long term (yes it takes more time to burn fat, but at least you’ll keep it off for good). Different foods have different hormonal effects on the body even on a same calorie comparison. It’s the hormones that tell your body what to do (store away, use as energy, reduce hunger etc). Higher protein will lead to satiety and consequently less cravings. The energy balance equation is always true, but it’s too simplistic to explain the physiological aspects of the body, and people always misinterpret it to mean that eating considerably fewer calories, always leads to sustainable body fat loss, it does not. OP is not currently eating 4,500+ kcal. He’s eating only 2,300.
Have you tried calculating your TDEE? Figuring out how much you burn each day is the starting point, and then you gently reduce from there. It’s slow and can be frustrating when you want to see results quickly, but this is a long game if you want to keep the weight off.
I’d recommend figuring out your TDEE, then eating 500 calories a day below that. Try it for a month. If you’re losing around a pound a week, great keep going. If your weight loss is much lower or higher than that, your TDEE calculation was probably a bit off. You’d then increase or decrease your calories by 200 - 300 (depending on if you’re losing too fast or too slow respectively), and try that for a month. This WILL work over time, but you have to be consistent.
With all of that said, there are a thousand other factors that impact your weight day to day (water retention and inflammation from working out, bloating from eating salty food, waste in your GI tract, etc.). That’s why it’s crucial to look at your weight as a trend over longer periods to eliminate some of that noise.
Finally, if you’re resistance training (which is great for weight loss and health overall!) you may want to take body measurements in addition to weight. A lot of folks might not see the scale move, but they’ll notice their clothes start fitting better and their waist is down a couple of inches. Between water retention and putting on muscle (over months), the scale can stay stagnant even though you’re making progress. Weight is not the whole story.
That’s a lot of words for me to say “it depends” as the answer to your original question. :) happy to chat more if you’d like, feel free to DM.