Why am I losing so much strength while losing weight?

25M. 290>177, 6ft.

I'm at a healthy weight but want to lose about 10-20lbs more depending on how I feel. I don't look like I have loads of fat but I have a lot of loose skin and I want to have abs and under 10% body fat.

I fast, so every few weeks I do a 3-7 day fast. On other days I eat normally, usually around 1800 calories a day.

I've noticed my lifts in the gym getting much worse in the past couple of months as I've gone from 200 to 177. I used to bench 95kg now my max is 85 and I struggle with it. I feel like this strength decrease is way more than it should be?

I'm almost at my ideal body weight, surely I shouldn't be this weak.

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