For context, I am 6'1", 47 yrs. old, and before restarting my strength training I had gotten up to 238 lbs. with a wild guess of about 30% body fat, and then dieted down to 199. While running my LP I got back up to 224, but my waist stayed constant, and I gained a huge amount on all my lifts. Then my coach switched me to intermediate programming, and around the same time I got more careful with my diet to get down to around 15% bf (DEXA scan a couple weeks ago said 18.3%) and work on reducing my waist (so far from 39.5" to 37.5"), but my weight has stayed in the 220-224 lb. range. So it *appears* to me that it's working to some extent to recomp in that range. I just don't know if I need to look at cutting my diet back further to get the scale weight down to get rid of that last 3-4% of bf, or if I can continue fluctuating in that range and expect the waist and bf% to continue to drop.