Back to lifting "heavy"

Not lifting huge numbers, but I'm back to trying to push my max lifts.  I've been eating more, worked my way up to around 2900 calories and can feel the difference when lifting.  Got back to 290 deadlift today (that's all the weight I have, going to get more this weekend).

Weight is holding around 199, so I'm happy with that.  If my weight starts to climb, I'll probably cut calories again and see if I can get body fat down to around 12%

197.6

Been "reverse dieting", slowing increasing calories to get back up to my approximate total daily expenditure.  Basically trying to get back to neutral.  Seems to have improved my metabolism because I have more energy, am still hungry (feeling more hungry even though I'm eating a fair bit more) and my weight just hit a new low after getting to my highest daily calorie intake in many months.  

I'm debating if I should go above my TDE (total daily expenditure) to try to focus on muscle/strength gains, or if I should just level out, then calorie cut again to get my body fat % lower.  I think I'll do the latter at least until I see if I'm going to compete in BJJ (want to keep my weight low for hopefully better chance in competing against lighter people).  Then after that I can experiment with bulking.

200.4 lbs - 15.6% BF??

A week or so ago I took a body fat reading and got around 15.6%, which I figured was an anomaly (maybe hydration levels or moisture on my feet, etc).  So today I took another one and got 15.6%. Not sure what to make if that.  I am noticeably leaner and at 200 lbs, it would only take losing 2 or 3 lbs of fat to take me from 17/18% that I had been consistently measuring at down to this new number.  

I've been hitting the diet and lifting pretty hard, so I want to believe that % is accurate, but I'm not sure.  Time will tell I guess (if % keeps lowering and if I can see it in the mirror)