Hi. I am a skinny fat bastard who has recently started going to gym and eating right (occasional cheat meals are there, like 2-3 in a month or so).

I would like to explain my situation and would like you all to point out better ways of achieving my goals and pointing out any BS I am currently doing.

Goals

  • Get rid of belly fat and get a proportionate body. Wish to bulk up proportionately when my belly fat is nil (aim is getting abs)
  • Develop strength. Can't do pullups and hardly 10 reps of pushups.
  • Reduce workout time.
  • I feel tired frequently when I wake up. There are times when I feel like I can't do shit because I have no energy to do so. I need to rectify this.

Gym

  • I am in a calorific deficit and I am particularly a physically weak guy. While doing compound movements (like bench press with barbell or body-weight squats), I have difficulties in balancing myself. Thus, I focus on hypertrophy and exercises which involve dumbbells.
  • Because of time constraints (I workout in morning) , I am following a workout pattern of doing more reps of one exercise (3 sets) with less heavy weight. When I can do 3 sets of 20-25 reps for constant weight, I move on to next weight increment and start from 10 reps. This also solves my weight progression problem as earlier, I used to jump to a new weight way too quick and then hardly do 3-4 reps

Diet

Initially, I started to lose weight with a calorific deficit however now I am not losing any weight. I have built some muscle (hardly noticeable because of that lump of fat on my belly) but I can see that there is a progress. I have done the following changes to my diet

  • Replaced sugar with sugar-free (sucralose)
  • Replaced milk-tea with green-tea
  • Reduced junkfood a lot. If needed, I eat a few chips (a pack of chips last around 3-4 days) and when I go out
  • I eat more protein : Eggs, Chicken Breast. Can't get whey protein as I belong to a country where whey protein is adulterated af (the bastards might mix chalk powder).

What can I further do to achieve my goals well?