For what it's worth, three years into this community, I've stopped treating every phase like it needs a new protocol. After the loss phase, my body composition work has been mostly the same groceries, two full-body lifts a week, and a walking pad during calls.
Current shelf: creatine, fiber, magnesium at night, and whatever protein is on sale. No magic. The scale has been within 1.5 lb since April, but my waist is down about an inch and my pull-up reps went from 3 to 7.
That's the part I care about now. The one thing that changed: I stopped changing things every time a thread hyped a new add-on.
Curious how others define a successful composition phase when the scale is basically flat.