Not really, but there are things that might help. I am speaking from personal, recent experience:
1) Get enough protein, up to 1g/# of body weight. That's real hard. Might be impossible w/o an unrealistic lifestyle change. No problem if so. Just track your intake with an app (I like MyFitnessPal but there are plenty of options) and get as close as practical.
2) Five days a week in the gym for a beginner is a lot. Might be too much. Try subbing 1-2 days onto easy cardio instead. The rucking idea above is a good one. But as a beginner losing weight successfully, pretty much anything works. Just do the work.
3) Play with your movements, weights and reps in the gym. Most say low weight, high reps is the way for Olds. In my experience the opposite is true. But you gotta figure it out yourself..
If you aren't a fat sloppy sow, 7 lbs/month is too much. Even if you ARE a fat sloppy sow (no judgement) you're gonna get down to level, quick, where 7 lbs is gonna be too much. That's a real cool place to be, and you need to pivot to sustainability. Otherwise you're gonna really test willpower and risk lapsing.
That sustainability pivot can be a combo of several things.
1) If your diet is super spartan, walk it back a bit. Occasional dessert is fine. A cheeseburger, lasagna, in moderation is fine. Maybe even Coors Light. I highly recommend against soda, but you do you.
2) Less cardio. If your heart and blood work numbers are good, you're in the diminishing marginal return range. You can walk it back and have more time for other things.
3) Less cardio, more weights. Maybe get back to 4-5 days/week and get all swole and shit.
You're on a great track, and are better off than 95% of Americans. Just don't lapse. Figure out now how to stay with it forever until you die. At some point you're gonna be the hottest man in the cul de sac. Neighbor ladies, young divorce's and sugar babies will take note. (I have a theory, that I'll likely never prove, that sugar babies charge lower rates for fit men. Maybe you'll go test that for us.)
Keep it up, Man. This thread is on of the few threads on Surly that isn't evil and degenerate.