Anxiety over seeing results

What Banx said. Also, if a stone or stone and a half is all you have to lose, you don't want to be losing 2 pounds a week. Losing fast creates extra health risks, among other reasons. Half a pound a week would be a good goal, with only a stone to lose, maybe a pound at a stone and a half, depending on your overall size.

And yes, it'll take time to show up on the scale. It'll play peek-a-boo on the scale with routine daily shifts in water retention and digestive contents on their way to becoming waste. Expect that, plan for that. Don't let it freak you out.

Are you a premenopausal woman? Some in that category only see a new low weight once a month because of larger-than-average hormonal water weight fluctuations, and those happen at different times for different women, so they're hard to predict until you have a personal track record.

But if you set a reasonable calorie target, log accurately, and stick to it, the process will work.

Here's a maybe-reassuring story: I've been in maintenance for 6+ years at a healthy weight, but had let my weight creep up 10-15 pounds within the healthy range over about 4 years, such that my jeans were getting snug. Can't have that: I hate to shop!

I have a good handle on my calorie needs and logging practices, but I didn't have much enthusiasm for a big calorie deficit . . . but I wanted to drop those vanity pounds, no need to do it instantly. I set my loss rate for half a pound a week, but would still put in some over-goal days very occasionally.

Sometimes even my weight trending app thought I wasn't losing fat. I was pretty sure I was, just slowly.

I was right. Here I am, months later, down that 10-15 pounds, completely painlessly.

I'm not saying that you should lose that slowly (it was maybe a pound a month or a little faster!). What I'm saying was that even going that slowly, even when the weight trend app - let alone daily scale weights - suggested otherwise, I was truly losing fat slowly, because I believe in the process and I know how to do it. It works.
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The scale can by a lying liar that lies, especially over periods less than a month, even if losing fat at a meaningful rate. If premenopausal, you want to compare bodyweights at the same relative point in at least two different menstrual cycles, for sure. Even then, a day with more salt than usual will cause a scale jump from water retention, so will a head cold or minor injury, etc.

As an aside, 1293 calories seems really low, unless you're quite petite. Even as a mid-sized woman (5'5", mid-120s pounds, i.e., around 9 stone +/-), age 66, not active outside of exercise, I'd lose pretty darned fast at 1293 calories plus all my exercise calories - too fast. I admit, I'm a mysteriously good li'l ol' calorie burner, but that's a low calorie level for a lot of women (not all).

You might consider getting a weight trending app, if you don't already use one. It's not a crystal ball or magical, it just uses statistics to try to smooth out random changes in weight and guesstimate where your body weight is heading. Some people find them helpful or reassuring. There are several free options, such as Happy Scale for Apple iOS, Libra for Android, Trendweight with a free Fitbit account (you don't need a device), Weightgrapher, others.

You can do this. It will work. Patience and consistency.