I'm a fat shit trying to get /fit/, I started 7 months ago and I've basically been doing SL 5x5 but mixing in some accessory stuff when I feel like it, and sometimes doing 3x8 instead. On my off days I do 30 minutes on the bike machine, increasing the resistance when I feel comfortable. I'm almost at the max resistance setting now and I can maintain 55-60RPM the entire time.
I'm also counting calories and trying not to go over 2000. Fitbit says my maintenance calories is 2900 or so. It's one of the waist ones and I frequently clock 15,000 steps in a day before even getting to the gym, but then wear it inside as well. According to the fitbit, I burn like 4,300 calories in a day. I'm skeptical, but in the beginning I lost weight pretty rapidly so maybe it's true. My calorie counting is science-exact, like I put slices of cheese on a food scale and measure by grams and then calculate the calories based on the serving size instead of estimating. I'm not fucking around.
When I started, I weighed 400lb and I'm down to 355ish, but I'm sort of stalling with the weight loss. Like at the end of last week, the super accurate gym scale said I was 352, and then I went back up to like 356 over the weekend somehow, yesterday was 353 and today was 355 again. I know that weight measurements are influenced by hydration, how recently you've eaten, etc. But I measure myself exactly the same time every day, and I always take a shit first for consistency's sake. I have lost three pants sizes, from a 56 down to 50. But it seems to be getting harder to actually lose WEIGHT.
My question: is it possible I'm gaining muscle fast enough that the weight of the new muscle offsets the weight of lost fat? I had assumed that, regardless of the "muscle is more dense" thing, I'd still burn off fat faster than I made gains. Am I just gonna hover around this weight until I become entirely muscle and leave humanity behind?