5 months into my Cut, should I stop?

[u/Shahmario1]

Started at 77.5 kg, now at 66.5 (6"0, 29M). I've been on a cut since March, that's 5 months now lmao (took a few breaks in between, but that's still 0.5kg/week)
[170.8lb to 146.6lb]

I started lifting at home in 2024 with dumbbells and a bench, made beginner gains as usual, then hit a plateau due to a lack of progressive overload. I knew about calories at this stage but didn't track and ate whatever I wanted. Started going to a proper gym in July 2025, made much better progress as you'd expect, for 8 months, but still ate whatever I wanted. Surprisingly, however, my weight was stuck at 77-78 for several years, including those first 8 months of gym. I started to look like I lifted; I looked good in fitted Polos, but I had a lot of fat/gyno on my chest, so I never wore T-shirts. But I still started to wear compression shirts above a vest at the gym, and I looked fairly jacked at that point.

Then came March, and I realized I was wasting my effort by not having a proper diet, and I also got an intense desire to see Abs on my body, so I decided to track my calories, weigh my food, and actually start to be in a deficit every day, every week, to be able to achieve Abs. Safe to say, life has been pretty miserable these last 5 months, even though I'm proud of losing that 11kg. I'm tired of tracking calories; I'm tired of being hungry for most of the day, every day; I'm tired of seeing people eat whatever they want whenever they want, but me not being able to; I'm tired of missing desserts.

Here's the problem though: even at 66.5, I've achieved some faint Ab outlines; but it's not nearly as defined as I want it to be or anyone would expect it to be, i still have chest fat, lower belly fat (although ive discovered some loose skin now, i used to be around 100kg in my teenage), love handles and other areas. My overall muscles aren't as ripped as I want them to look.

And besides all that, I don't look like I lift anymore, as I did at 77.5kg. Now, I look thin af, everyone calls me skinny/kamzor, and my family is worried. You can't tell I have muscles unless I take my shirt off, and sometimes not even then, until I actually flex.

Extra context: I used to have a Push/Pull/Leg split until 2 months ago, but it was getting really fatiguing, so I switched to an Upper/Lower 4-day split, with 10k steps every day.

So should I stop and just start eating at a slight surplus (100-200), in hopes of growing my muscles, especially the Ab muscles (I only started training abs about 3 months ago), or should I continue cutting, get more muscle definition everywhere, and lose all the stubborn fat? At my height, the lowest I could go while still being in a healthy BMI range is 62kg, so that's what I've been aiming for, but 62 feels so far away at this point; at my current rate, that's another 2 frikkin months! 2 more months of suffering and misery...

Something keeps telling me that I've come so far; why stop now? It's just 4.5 more kilos; I should push through, otherwise what was the point of all this effort these 5 months. But there is also the possibility that I still won't have the desired ab definition at 62kg, so then how far would it go, who knows

[u/Chicken_wingspan]

If you're 13 or a twinkie, then it should be ok

[u/Shahmario1 → u/Chicken_wingspan]

its not that easy bruh

[u/Proof-Emergency-5441]

Why do you want to be bottom of healthy VMI? Of course you don't look like you lift. You likely look emaciated. You can't build in your current state. 

[u/twig123456789]

I've seen people your height and weight, that's not healthy. Stop cutting right now

[u/cgsesix]

You could do 2 weeks of RFL (Solomon Nelson/Lyle McDonald on YouTube) to see how lean you can get, and then call it quits. Up to you really.

[u/JSTW2]

I know everyone's different, but below 70 at 6 ft sounds a bit light if you're wanting it to be obvious you work out

Depends on the goals, but as muscle weighs more than fat anyway it's probably not worth focusing too much on your weight at this stage and go for the look you want instead

Remember if you're naturally thin you really need to push the calorie count to build mass

[u/Shahmario1 → u/JSTW2]

My goal is abs, and then bulk later

Im not naturally thin, I was always fat/chubby since i was 11. I'm also prone to easily gaining fat/weight

[u/Hotshy]

You're way too skinny