Losing cms but not a single kg off

Your bodyfat percentage on the scale: those scales are notoriously inaccurate, I would not put much faith in them. If you have lost inches, you have lost fat.

As for the scale: strength training often causes water retention in the muscles (for muscle repair) so that water retention may be masking fat loss on the scale.

I would give it a few more weeks, personally, to see if you start losing weight.

@Bitukas, I'm with @lietchi: Water retention from new exercise, or from other sources, seems like a decent possibility. That can hide fat loss on the scale for a surprisingly long time, sometimes. It seems particularly probable if key tape-measurements have decreased.

On top of that, if you're female (as your profile says) and adult but not in menopause yet, some women only see a new low scale weight once a month, because of hormone-related water weight fluctuations. That isn't the most common pattern, but it's a possible one.

This might be a good read, if you haven't previously seen it:

https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations

Some MFP-ers discuss their own experiences in this thread:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10683010/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-fluctuations/p1

jcuneo189 wrote: »

Some food for thought...

If you weren't to active with strength training prior to recent diet plan, and based on the measurements decreasing it could be more or less a recomposition of sorts. In short, you are losing fat and gaining muscle, so while the weight hasn't changed to noticeably the fat is still burning off.

I know for myself I was in similar boat for the first 3-4 weeks of new program, after having been out of gym 6 months, and getting back into diet. The first 3-4 weeks of tracking and gym routine saw basically no difference on scale but I did see differences in lifts (had not done measurements on body). At week 4-5 weight finally starting coming off the scale to somewhat match efforts. I'm still somewhat dissappointed at the pace (about .4-.6% a week in weight loss) but big picture I'd be happy enough if this was long term trajectory, is what I keep telling myself.

.... If any of that helps

OP's profile says she's female. Gaining a quarter pound of new muscle mass per week would be a really good result for a woman (though I wish, as a woman, that it were quicker/easier!) . . . and it's unlikely to be that much when in a calorie deficit. (For a man, maybe twice that would be a decent result.)

Strength gains can be much faster (from neuromuscular adaptation, basically better recruiting and using existing muscle fibers). That strength gain, plus a bit of a pumped appearance (from water retained in the muscles for repair) can lead people to believe they've gained muscle mass even when it's unlikely. But being stronger and looking fitter are nice things in themselves, so a win, right?

Over a 5-week period, relatively little muscle mass gain is going to happen . . . which doesn't make it not worth pursuing.

Most people would consider a quarter pound of fat loss per week a not very satisfying loss rate, for anyone with a material total amount of fat to lose. The unfortunate conclusion is that no realistic rate of muscle mass gain is likely to outpace any satisfying rate of fat loss.

In OP's case, the explanation that water retention is masking fat loss on the scale temporarily . . . that seems pretty plausible, especially in a scenario where tape-measurements seem to be decreasing in key spots.