Originally Posted by Eric3237

Losing weight on too high a caloric deficit is always a BIG mistake. By doing that you have made losing what remains much harder and you potential to gain fat much larger.

I actually do think that you would have been better off to slowly increase your calories, say 10% every few days until you actually reach maintenance, stay on that for at least a week, and then try to approach a deficit again with a more reasonable rate of decrease. And also examing your activity with an eye to more fat burning...

In future I'd advise you to always plan with the long term AND short term in mind. Just because something has a desirable effect in the SHORT term...it may be the WORST thing to do in the LONG term.