I know what you mean. I'm fighting the scale number too - the inches are lower but the number is the same. I'm trying to wrap my head around the fact that smaller inches is more important than the scale number, but I think it's hard because my entire adult life has revolved around the scale. I know you'd love to lose 25 pounds a month, but weight loss isn't linear, it goes up and down and sideways for no apparent reason. Try to focus on the inches and not the scale, and focus on non-scale victories like a workout being easier, or lifting more, running faster/farther, completing the walk faster, ... You'e got this!

You need to be a process-driven, not results-driven. Obviously, you strive for results, but you attack everyday just like the last. Without a scale, you have nothing (or at least one less thing) to keep your nose to the grindstone. Scales are good. We shouldn't run from our realities. But by the same token, we shouldn't be upset by our realities.