Can you lose BF monthly?

Lifting makes it so when you eat at a calorie deficit, you lose 75% of your loss fat. If you weren't lifting you'd only lose 50% fat, with the remainder being muscle.
No lifting = 1lb of weight loss is 50% muscle, the other is 50% fat
Lifting = 1lb of weight loss is 25% muscle, the other is 75% fat

If you lose muscle and fat at the same rate (50%) you're pretty much keeping your bodyfat the same.
Of course all of these % are monthly.
I'd aim for a goal loss of 1 - 2% a month, then when you get to ~23%, .5% a month.

Edit:
Oh. Bulking and Cutting.
Okay so a lot of seasoned lifters will cut (diet) for 6 to 8 weeks, just to get their weight down, they lift ~2 - 3 times a week to maintain their muscle. Then at the end of their cut, they eat in a surplus to gain weight (muscle) while they lift 3 - 4+ times a week.
When you gain weight, you gain muscle and fat. So at the end of the bulk you have to cut again to lose the extra fat, etc etc.

If you really must have a time frame, it'll take probably a year of dedicated lifting with something like Stronglifts

Lifting makes it so when you eat at a calorie deficit, you lose 75% of your loss fat. If you weren't lifting you'd only lose 50% fat, with the remainder being muscle.

As I said, I hoped this would not become a debate but I think that is exaggerated. The numbers I have seen in studies on obese dieters come in at 70% to 80% fat loss with the 70% being those that don't exercise and the 80% being those that do. Fat has 3500 calories per pound and has no job other than to provide fuel when you are in deficit. Muscle only has 600 calories per pound and has another job. Your body generally does a pretty good job of picking the best fuel.

Once you have lost a lot of BF and are trying to lose the last few pounds and/or bulk up it is another story and you can lose a lot of muscle when there aren't vast stores of fat.

The other poster is saying that you will not drop BF% unless you lift while losing. I am saying that you will but that exercise will make it drop faster. Lots of people drop their BF% into the low 20s with no exercise (I am not saying that is a good idea) but to get it below 20 you have almost have to be athletic or extremely patient.

Lifting = 1lb of weight loss is 25% muscle, the other is 75% fat

WHAT ?!! this is non sense ...i have gone from over 25 % to 9 % with 1 pound of muscle loss in the last week of cutting because i ate little to accelerate the process ..if what u are saying is true then i would have lost like 15 or more pounds of muscle during my cut ..btw i used Tanita scales to measure my muscle to fat ratio ..and my lifts remained the same ..and actually some lifts increased ..

There are a lot of variables here.... But when someon FIRST starts lifting, their body is going to build muscle much faster than someone thats been doing it a while.

So when you first start lifting you may only see smaller fluctuations in weight loss, as some of the weight loss is being offset by muscle gain. This accelerated state does not last and eventually muscle gain will slow, while fat loss continues. This is when the numbers start to fall more. Once you get to a certain point, fat loss and muscle gain together becomes very difficult if not impossible. In deconditions people however, this is not the case. As a general rule, muscle gain takes much much longer than fat loss.

What to take away? Just keep lifting, and use measurements/calipers, and don't focus much on the scale. Cardio is also important, but in my opinion, most of your time exercising should be spent lifting. Unless you happen to have a cardio activity you enjoy...in that case its always good to do that

Curious now.

Are you going to be doing weight lifting?

Lifting makes it so when you eat at a calorie deficit, you lose 75% of your loss fat. If you weren't lifting you'd only lose 50% fat, with the remainder being muscle.
No lifting = 1lb of weight loss is 50% muscle, the other is 50% fat
Lifting = 1lb of weight loss is 25% muscle, the other is 75% fat

If you lose muscle and fat at the same rate (50%) you're pretty much keeping your bodyfat the same.
Of course all of these % are monthly.
I'd aim for a goal loss of 1 - 2% a month, then when you get to ~23%, .5% a month.

Edit:
Oh. Bulking and Cutting.
Okay so a lot of seasoned lifters will cut (diet) for 6 to 8 weeks, just to get their weight down, they lift ~2 - 3 times a week to maintain their muscle. Then at the end of their cut, they eat in a surplus to gain weight (muscle) while they lift 3 - 4+ times a week.
When you gain weight, you gain muscle and fat. So at the end of the bulk you have to cut again to lose the extra fat, etc etc.

If you really must have a time frame, it'll take probably a year of dedicated lifting with something like Stronglifts

Can you provide link to the source? where did you get those numbers from?
Bodybuilders cut and bulk and they manage to retain 100 or almost 100% of the muscle when cutting as they eat a lot of protein and lift, I have seen variety of numbers but never 50% 50% split for non lifters...

This argument can get to the point of sillyness by trying to predict actual percentages of fat/muscle loss.

Consider, most estimation methods of bodyfat separate into two categories. Fat mass and LBM or Fat Free Mass. The latter being everything that isn't fat.

When you lose weight, both of these go down but that doesn't necessarily mean that you are losing skeletal muscle.

If you are doing some form of resistance training, you are consuming a reasonable caloric and macronutrient intake, and you aren't striving to push the limits of leanness, you are likely doing the things you need to do to minimize muscle loss.

That is true; the figures I read on BF loss were fat versus not fat, but in obese people losing weight they were pretty consistently in the range of 70-80% fat. When you have a lot of fat, that is what the body primarily uses first. But it is jumping to a poor conclusion to say everything that isn't fat is muscle.

You can't maintain 100% LBM when you're in a caloric deficit.

I agree.

You can if you eat at TDEE.

I want so badly to agree but I think there is a flaw in your thinking. There is no loss at TDEE, that I agree with. No LBM and also no fat. I inferred that you were thinking you can get fat loss with no LBM loss. That I don't agree with. I think you can gain muscle without gaining much, if any, fat but that you can never lose nothing but fat. Hence the bulk/cut cycles.

Proportion of weight loss that is fat from weight loss studies (not body building studies)