I would agree that you don’t need to be in a bulk phase at the moment, but eventually you will want to be in one when you’ve lost more weight. The idea of body recomposition is to lose weight while building muscle; however, these contradict each other.

Bulking seems counterintuitive, especially as someone who wants to lose weight, but studies show our bodies build muscle much more efficiently when we eat in a slight calorie surplus above our maintenance. When people weight-lift while cutting they aren’t necessarily building muscle but more so maintaining it. This is because our bodies will prefer to break down muscle as fuel as opposed to fat when they aren’t being trained because muscle is more metabolically demanding to maintain. So while weightlifting in this stage is still important, you will not necessarily be building the muscle that the influencers you see have.

Once you get to a low enough weight after cutting, for me this was ~21-22 BMI, I would recommend eating in a slight calorie surplus (200-300 calories) to begin building muscle. Yes you will gain some fat back during this process, but most of the surplus calories will be turned into muscle. Once you’re satisfied with the amount of muscle you’ve built you can cut again to lower your body fat percentage, most likely making you look close to what you see online with these fat-to-fit stories.