If you feel like getting some additional positive feedback besides stepping on a scale, you can pick up a vial of the urine strips that diabetics sometimes use to test for ketones. Ketones are a byproduct created when your body burns fat.

It's kind of nice to see the strip change colors and know that you've accomplished some fat loss even if it hasn't shown up on the scale. If you get the strips that test for sugar as well, you can make sure you don't have Type 2 diabetes.