Losing inches, but not weight

If you want more advise, you are going to want to start logging calories. If you continue to gain, it' s because you are eating more calories than your are burning. So while you might be seeing some moderate recomposition or you are not measuring exactly in the same spot, it' s possible your weight gain is either water weight increase from exercise or you truly are gaining new fat from eating too much.

Not trying to put you down, but if you want success in terms of weight loss, diet is by far more important than just exercise. With that said, I personally don't care about scale results but you do use it as a trend tool to allow you to understand how many calories you can eat a day.

Not necessarily. A new maintenance level will occur followed by a deficit while maintaining the same caloric intake.

Sorry, but what are you implying. I am not trying to be rude, but I don't see which part my paragraph you are addressing.. Heck, maybe it's the drugs I am on for my sinus infection :laugh:

Are we talking a decrease in TDEE post weight loss or what?

For some reason you said that the person could be adding water weight and fat, that would assume the person is eating over maintenance calories. I suspect that because she's losing inches that she's in a deficit. If she's in a deficit then some recomp is happening....which is adding new muscle fiber and it can be regional as well, not necessarily all over. To my point. If she's in a deficit and I see no reason why that isn't the case she will eventually hit a place where no weight loss occurs, that is maintenance.......and continuing to lift heavy can and will eventually create a deficit caused by increased metabolism and strength in exercise. Newbie gains should be taken advantage of.

Since the OP is not logging calories, it's highly possible she is eating over her TDEE. It's also possible she is eating at her maintenance calories and doing recomp. I propose that it's possible her "inches lost" could fall into a category of wrong measurement. Lets face it, to measure the same exact spot consistently is not always feasible. So you have to leave some room for error. I guess we would need to clarify, how many inches have been lost? Looking the post, there is NO quantifiable amount of inches lost.

Realistically speaking, we need more than 3 weeks worth of data. But if she continues to gain weight, we know for a fact it is over consumption of calories and the inches lost were measuring inconsistency. I hope she just has water retention keep her weight up but it's hard to say without see any logged food.