any advice moving forward? my overall goal is just to look decent

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any advice moving forward?

my overall goal is just to look decent with my shirt off. I don't care if it's at 160lbs or 180lbs, since I imagine the method is just to lower my bf%. however, I also want it maintainable (with lifting obviously) so I don't need to eat 1500 cals a day the rest of my life.

when I posted October progress, everyone on here said to start eating at a deficit and my lifts will go up regardless from "neurological gains" and fixing my form. a lot of my lifts have, but my bench has stayed the same (failed trying 120 for like 2 straight weeks, got sick of rolling the bar off of me so often). it's definitely a result of eating less, for I can do a lot more the day after cheat dinners. I don't mind though since at least I lost some fat.

I've been eating 1500 cals a day and as the pic says, I've lost about 8lbs. I've crash dieted and cardio before and lost a lot more, but my goal was to keep whatever little muscle I have (which I think I did since all of my lifts stayed the same or improved).

what can I do moving forward? keep cutting and let my lifts stall? to what weight? or is now a good time to go back to eating normal and try to keep raising my lifts?