 The scale is lying to you. You can literally gain weight on the scale and get leaner. Look, if you have 20 pounds of body fat and you weigh 200 pounds, that means you're at 10% body fat. But imagine if someone was 100 pounds with 20 pounds of body fat, well now they're 20% body fat. All right, what does that mean for you? If you were to gain muscle right now and not gain a single pound of body fat and not lose a single pound of body fat, all you did was gain muscle, you're still leaner. You have a lower body fat percentage, but there's more. You have a faster metabolism, you feel more sculpted, everything feels much tighter. Once your metabolism gets up to a certain point, now you can cut and it gets a lot easier.