The Scale

Stay off of it. If you're going to weigh yourself, limit it to once a week, same day of the week, same time, same conditions. Like do it every Friday first thing when you wake up, before you even drink anything. Then record each weigh-in and take a look at your numbers over the averages of the weeks. If you have excess fat to lose, and there's a downward trend, then you know your getting results.

Caveat: Remember the only thing we ever want to "lose" is fat. We want to build and preserve as much muscle tissue as possible. It's our bodies fat burning hardware! So if you have ALREADY built up a solid amount of muscle tissue, then the scale can be a useful tool in documenting fat loss. But if you have not built muscle and the scale is going down and you're depriving yourself of food, doing lots of cardio (basically doing all the wrong things), then the scale is not a good indicator of fat loss. Sure you may be losing some ft, but guaranteed a lot of the loss is also from muscle tissue. We DO NOT want to lose muscle tissue.