How many inches to how many pounds

I don't think anyone can answer this question. You can gain weight and lose inches if you gain muscle and decrease fat. You can lose weight and gain inches if you convert muscle to fat...

Muscle doesn't weigh more than fat - it is simply more dense than fat. That's why a pound of muscle takes up less space than a pound of fat, and someone can indeed be more compact and firm when they've added muscle and lost fat, but the scale weight might be the same. That's why one can't always go by the scale - it only tells one what one weighs at that moment and that can fluctuate daily etc. When one is recomposing one's body in favor of muscle(which takes quite awhile for women so don't expect a "quick fix - transform your body in only 6 weeks" kind of thing) it's indeed possible to appear to weigh the same on the scale, but one has lost a bit off the bust, waist or hips(wherever fat seems to want to come off first and that varies for people according to body structure and where they naturally store more fat). It also depends on how much one has to lose. Some people have to lose 20 pounds to get that first inch or so off the waist, while those at the really much lower end, it might only take losing the last 5-7 pounds. You won't know until you give it a solid go, on your body. Be honest with calories, keep your food clean, and do a solid workout program with emphasis on compound(use several large muscle groups all at once)exercises. There's lots of info about that and will give you the biggest bang for the buck with the workouts and adding muscle. What a lot of people also don't know that the very process of repair of tissue from hard workouts burns calories in itself and fat is gradually burned, especially aided by cardio, and of course that caloric deficit. Just get that deficit going on, and then do the rest. It will come!