Did your body fat percentage decreased?
By getting more active, muscles become stronger and grow while body fat percentage could have decreased.
There could be no weight loss at all since the weight loss of body fat can have been compensated with a increase of getting stronger muscles.
Having a to large deficit can lead that the metabolism goes slower than normally and the body trying to prevent weight loss, also the body can use muscles as energy when there's a shortage of food (when the deficit is to large). Try using a smaller deficit to counter this (-500 deficit), this also makes it more likely that the weight loss comes from body fat rather than muscles.. it's possible to get to a lower weight with the same body fat as before or even more and weight loss did come mostly from muscles instead.
This can lead to being at a healthy weight, but not looking leaner. Decreasing the body fat percentage is the goal rather than weight in itself which can be anything (water loss? muscle loss? fat loss).
Eat protein (eggs, cheese, yoghurt, lean meat such as chicken, fish..).. this is used to repair muscles and make more likely weight loss will come from body fat rather than muscles.
It's also possible that the body is at it's happiest weight range, and any further attempts to loose more weight is prevented by the body to ensure survival.
Are you at a healthy weight? Body fat percentage?
Trying to incorporate changes in food habits if this is the case like for example eating more natural unprocessed, non prepackaged food such as banana's, apples.. or regardless what the food plan says, when not feeling hungry / not stuffed but satisfied, try not to eat more (even if it's allowed to eat x hundred calories more according to the food plan).
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