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Maintaining your weight and losing fat and building muscle is a tricky place for motivation unless you are regularly tracking your waist, muscle measurements, or how much extra that you lift.
If you've been eating on a reduced diet, you'll barely see any visible difference in 1 or 2 weeks, which can be really demotivating if you are trying to lose weight/body fat by feel.
Any metrics that you can track which show improvement is useful, whether its number of pushups / pull ups / squats you can do, weight, waist measurement, thigh measurement, whatever it is.
Cleaning up your diet while keeping the same weight might have a small impact, but your body isn't going to automatically change your body fat because you're eating more green veg. The muscle growing stimulus needs to be high so that within the same weight, your body prioritises muscle growth, and you get the body recomposition that you desire.
Eat what you do now, and do an effective 3 day a week resistance exercise plan at the gym, and as a non gym goer, you will see some impressive gains and body recomposition while maintaining weight.
But as you said you're not going to go to the gym, you can go a long way with bodyweight exercises, some dumbbells or a kettlebell, bands and a door pull up bar, maybe some gymnastic rings if you can stretch to that.
75 kettlebell swings
75 air squats
60 pushups
30 pullups (with band or not), or bar or ring/trx rows
Plank
(in as many sets as you need, whether its 3 or 6, and increase weight or numbers as you get stronger)
Consistently 3 x a week (maybe only 30-40 minutes a workout) would show serious gains if you're not used to working out. Maybe if that seems daunting, do 10-15 minutes 6 times a week, until you get into the habit.