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In my experience it's tough for two reasons:

1. Losing weight is pretty darn slow. Like 0.5 lbs a week is actually great progress, that's 26lbs in a year, but it's hard to appreciate the work you put in when it takes so long
2. Most calorie restriction diets will see immediate results the first week because you're losing a lot of water weight really quickly, so you'll see the scale go down 3-5lbs and be ecstatic. But then after water weight levels normalize your total body weight will stagnate or even creep up, even if you're burning body fat

Also personally my body weight only decreases in water wooshes which is satisfying but really fucking annoying. Like I'll cut hard for three weeks, see no weight loss, have a cheat day, and then the body will flush out water weight and I'll be 5lbs lighter. The body is weird lol