Can you lose body fat without losing weight?

[523206720]

My uncle saw me after 1-2 years and told me I looked like I had lost 35 pounds but I actually gained 2 pounds. Now 1 year later I am trying on a dress that I wore one year ago and even though I gained 5 pounds this year - the dress is a lot looser on me this year than it was last year. This makes me think that I have increased in muscle mass and decreased in body fat percentage. I have been dieting a lot this year but every time I look at the scale - it seems that my weight is the same.

[Distant]

That's a valid hypothesis and the only logical conclusion I can come to without your scale being broken. Muscle weighs a lot more than fat and I often gain weight when I start going to the gym despite looking smaller/defined.

[VENOMMM]

yeah you gained muscle to replace the fat you lost. that happens

[Tracilopez]

I gained almost 5 lbs since going to gym and I run and weight train twice a say sometimes. My kids say I look a lot slimmer but I sure hate that damn scale ! >:-[

[Ildskf]

Yeah you can...you must have gained muscle and lost fat.

[llorando]

It's possible if you replace the lost fat with muscle, which is hard cause fat weighs more than muscle.

[knotme]

no, you can't

[knotme]

fat is always in your body, it just shrinks or expand according to you body weight and how much water you are holding and the body is basically water. So, if you are not doing water depletion, the answer is no