What am I doing wrong if anything or what can I change?
44 year old male
5' 11"
Currently weigh: 198 lbs
Daily Calorie intake: 2,100 to 2,300
Daily Protein intake: 200g
I've been working out for about 4 years total. Played sports actively until I was 40 mostly soccer and basketball. I will admit the first 3 years of working out I was just winging it. I was basically going in there doing a little bit of everything mostly weightlifting and cardio. I lost weight/fat but gained no muscle. Now into the 4th year I started implementing better eating habits about 5 months ago. Then about a month and a week ago I started tracking and measuring my food. I meal prep and eat pretty clean about 95% of the time. About 4 times a month typically on Saturdays I have my cheat meal and even then it's nothing crazy pretty reasonable like 4 asada tacos or a hamburger or a salad with dressing. I've now since seen a pretty significant increase in muscle particularly in my arms both biceps and triceps. I've always had muscular legs so that's not an issue.
My lunch & dinners consist of a combination of chicken (breast, ground), salmon, 95/5 lean ground beef, ground turkey, steak, vegetables, brown rice, sweet potatoes & avocado. My breakfasts consist of egg whites, spinach, bananas, apples, yogurt, cottage cheese, unsalted almonds & mixed fruit. My two snacks per day consist of any of these 2 boiled eggs, banana, Quest protein cookie, Chobani protein smoothie, Quest protein bar, babybel 5g protein cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese, carrots, 1 scoop of whey protein 25g & Quest protein chips. I do breakfast 6am, lunch 10am, snack 12:30, pre-workout snack 3:30, gym 4 & dinner 6:30-7pm. I don't drink soda, I don't eat candy, chocolate, drink starbucks or energy drinks mostly water, juice here and there, natural coconut water once in a while I'll have a Zero Sugar Ginger Ale.
I take the following supplements in the morning with breakfast Omega3 and Turkesterone. Pre-workout I take L-Carnitine and post-workout I take Creatine and Collagen.
I drink a gallon of water a day sometimes a little more. I sleep on average 6 to 7 hours nightly.
I also recently implemented a split that consists of Monday Upper Body Push, Tuesday Lower Body Strength, Wednesday light cardio 30 min on treadmill speed at 3 along with stretching and using a roller, Thursday Upper Body Pull, Friday Lower Body & Core, Saturday hike for 45 minutes and Sunday rest. When I started working out I could only do about 2 pullups I can now do 8. I could only curl 25s now I can curl 40s so as I mentioned the muscle growth I'm happy with. It's the damn combination of muscle gain/consistency with fat loss that I just can't seem to master. I workout good I'm focused I push myself and increase the weight or reps accordingly at least to what I see.
According to the research I've done online I'm intaking the right amount of calories daily, the right amount of protein, I'm taking the right supplements, I'm sleeping well etc. but I can't seem to lose body fat. I look in the mirror and relatively look the same in the body fat area. I guess I'm just looking for pointers to see if anyone see's anything that I might be doing wrong or maybe I'm missing something? Am I being impatient with this since it's only been a little over a moth that I started meal prepping and actually doing portion control? I appreciate any feedback in advance.