What's losing weight like when you're lighter??

It's the same, you just can't eat as much, you don't burn as many calories while working out either.

Just keep a small deficit and you will get there, I've found from myself and a lot of people on this site, large deficits when you are "normal" weight cause many other issues.

There's less calories to work with and less room for error, so yes, it slows. But, it's still doable.

Way slower! It took me 6 months to lose 10 pounds once I went down to a normal BMI. I'm hungrier so I can't afford the big deficit I had before. I'm more active though, so it helps.

It's hard. When you're smaller, you burn less calories, so you have less to work with. Your deficit is usually smaller, so one night of overindulging can set you back. When I'm inactive, I only burn around 1650 calories per day. It's pretty hard to cut from so little.

A lot depends on your weight history, I think, and how you think about dieting and weight maintenance.

I have a normal weight, which is around 135, solidly within a normal BMI range for me. I don't have to do anything in particular to stay at that weight. So for me, gaining (or losing) weight is a sign that I've been doing something out of the ordinary - eating too many rich foods, hitting the wine a little too often, slacking on the gym, etc. As soon as I quit doing whatever the unusual thing is and go back to the status quo, my weight finds its way back to normal.

If I want to take it off faster, I cut back my portions and add in another cardio day, but I don't always do that, which I suspect makes my weight loss much different from people who are thinking "In order to reach Weight X I must do weight-loss things Y and Z and carefully monitor the scale to see if I'm on track." For me, "quit drinking too much and eating like an idiot and get back in the gym" is sufficient unto the day.

I don't pay that much attention to how long it takes me to get back to normal and my body loses weight pretty erratically anyway. I don't feel like it takes a particularly long time, though.

It's a lot slower personally. As you lose weight, your TDEE decreases (unless your activity level increases compared to when you were heavier), which decreases maximum the calorie deficit you can obtain (without netting below 1200) and decreases the margin of error between weight loss, maintenance, and weight gain.

What I've found helpful is to increase my physical activity as I lose weight as a way to eat more food (and build a little bit higher margin of error for my logging -especially whenever I eat out often and 100% can't guarantee that everything is accurate). At my highest weight, my TDEE was about 2000 (210lbs and sedentary according to IIFYM). 80 pounds lighter, I need to be lightly active for about 85 minutes (roughly 13000 steps according to my Fitbit) in order to have a 2000 calorie TDEE (if I am completely on bed rest, my TDEE would be about 1400 calories).

Hi, well done by the way, you have had a similar weight loss as me, I started out at 19 stone and am currently 12st 7lb. It's taken me about 18 months which is pretty slow going, mainly because the only exercise I have done up until now has been walking. I'm finding it a bit harder now as there are less calories to play with, slowly but surely is the way to go for me. Good luck.

It's slower: you burn fewer calories from exercise and you can't create a huge deficit and still get all the nutrients you need. It took me about six months for ten pounds. Also, there's less room for error with a small deficit, so if you've gotten by eyeballing portion sizes, that probably won't work.

That said, the process is the same, so if you've been successful so far, you'll probably keep on being successful. Just be patient.