Hi Sifus - I think this is the right thread to ask this question.

I started working out 1+ years ago. From 80kg to currently 68kg. Currently (based on the gym's smart scale), I have 18% body fat and 53kg of muscle mass.

My objective is to reduce my body fat % between 13-15% and increase my muscle mass.

However, recent 3 months, I noticed that my body fat% is the same and I am struggling to increase my muscle mass. Even worse, seems like my muscle mass is slowly decreasing for the past few weeks (I weigh my self regularly and take the weekly average ).

I track my calories intake and do progressive overload. Working out 3x a week. My daily calories intake average around 1800-2000 (based on mobile app). I'm reducing my calories intake to 10-20% since number of articles mentioned I should be doing this to reduce fat and increase muscle at the same time.

So, is there's anything that I should be doing more? Or I did wrong? Appreciate all sort of advice. Thanks!

are you also counting your protein intake? because this is most common when people say muscle mass is decreasing, even with proper workout(well i hope you do proper workout consistently!),
what's your height?

i'm not a certified expert, but i went through your same journey