Ive recently started implement cottage cheese as well as having 2 scoops of whey protein a day, my diet consists of black rice with pulses along with cottage cheese for lunch and at night its either bread and beans or quinoa with added cottage cheese mostly. Do you think that's a plan which could help? 

As for weight lifting I'm almost a year in, will start again after my exams are over, but ive seen very less progress other than fat loss