How come I am losing inches in the waist, but not weight?

I started going to the gym about a month ago, doing cardio, and weights, I feel my pants which used to be way tight are now way lose, but the scale says I am the same weight

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1. Muscles have weight. Keep up the good work.
2. Muscle weighs three times more than fat. Don't follow the scale, go on how you look and how you feel.
3. i dunno but me and my g/f bith said we gain som weight 4 each other (get r slef lookin better) and i been goin up in iches not weight and she been doin the opposite scary i kno :P
4. because you are building muscle tone and replacing your fat with muscle. Muscle weighs more than fat does. You are getting in shape. That is better than losing weight.
5. The way your clothes fit is much more important then what the scale says. Congrats!!!
6. Well, it could be that muscle weighs more than fat. So while your toning up your also sliming down at the same time. But keep it up You'll look great if you do.
7. You are replacing fat with muscle. Muscle mass weighs more than fat, so that explains why you are seeing little weight loss. Your body figure is most important so use that as an indicator of your exercise program.
8. Muscle is heavier than fat. When you exercise, you are converting fat to muscle, therefore, taking off inches and putting on pounds.
9. you are losing fat , but gaining muscle weight. Good job.
10. I have the same problem. Just hang in there, and stop weighing yourself. The better meater of if you are losing weight is if your clothes fit better or are getting loose, and also how you feel. I know its hard, but getting on the scale only discourages you, because your never going to drop the weight the way you'd like to. The way your body looks has nothing to do with numbers on a scale, that new muscle you are gaining weighs a lot, but when people look at you they have no way of knowing how much you weigh, they only know you look great!
11. lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!it's good that you can keep weith but look thinner