Weight loss progress stuck horribly

Dear Redditors, I am troubled by a problem I encountered on my journey to a healthier body. I started this adventure about 4 months ago. Right from the start, I realized how reactive my body is to change (or so I thought). All I had to do was swap bread for cucumber, and the change showed up on the scales within a few days. I added a lot of exercise, both cardio and strength training. In addition, I changed my diet, and all this resulted in me losing over 12 kilos (27 LBS) in two months in a relatively healthy way. Unfortunately, for the last two months, I have been troubled by the fact that this progress has completely stopped. At first, I thought that I simply wasn't achieving a calorie deficit like before, precisely because my basal metabolic rate had logically decreased. So I started simply measuring my calorie intake and expenditure. I measured my expenditure with a Garmin watch and my intake with classic calorie tables. Again, I must point out that I weighed every meal to the gram. I tried to always have a deficit while meeting all my macro nutrient requirements. Overall, I managed to keep this for at least 3 weeks or so, however the moment I stepped on the scale I was very disappointed to find that I hadn't lost a single gram. Demotivated and disappointed, I returned to my old diet. I must say that I have not neglected exercise. However, after about a month of "not caring about my diet," I found that my weight still hadn't changed and I really didn't know what else to do. When I strictly monitor everything and when I don't care, it doesn't bring any results. Any ideas?

TL:DR

lost weight, progress stuck, don't know what to try next

Also good thing to be said is that I have put on great amount of muscles and I am aware of the fact that muscles are heavy. But without the scale that can show you approximatly percentages of muscles and fats I simply do not know whether I am stuck or just losing fat and gaining the muscles at the same time.

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