Gain fat, lose muscle and weight but still lose inches

Is this possible, lifting heavy (relative to me) and eating in a deficit? This is conjuction to an earlier topic of a higher than expected body fat percentage and whether the trainer was being honest.

TIA

I'd go with incredibly unlikely. I think I saw your previous thread, but wasn't sure if you said that you actually had gotten your BF% taken prior to the trainer, or if you just assumed that it wasn't as high previously?

Either way, as I think it was said on the other thread, the trainer could be lying or just did a bad job, but I wouldn't overthink it.

Caloric deficit plus resistance training and you lose muscle and gain fat? This seems to defy all we know about diet and exercise. At worst you should lose both muscle AND fat but not gain fat.

Only if your body can defy the laws of thermodynamics which are a lot stricter than the laws of mere physiology - a pound of muscle has about 600kcal worth of energy, a pound of fat about 3500, so to lose muscle and gain fat while on a calorie deficit would mean that energy equivalent to about 2900kcal per pound of the mysteriously changed tissue spontaneously appeared somewhere in your system for no apparent reason.

 So not gonna happen.

Especially not when you lose inches as well, fat takes up about 22% more room than muscle so to replace one pound of muscle with one pound of fat would require you to gain inches.

The trainer may or may not be honest with his findings - but if he's honestly thinking what he's saying is right, then he's incompetent instead of dishonest.