There is a good ebook called Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle and when i was following that mentality towards eating, i had great results. You did not worry about what the scale, however you used fat calipers instead. You set your diet up and you would check your bf% in a week and if you see no change, you would change something minor with your food carb/protein/fat ratios. Kept at it foe three months, but you have to eat allot, 6 meals a day. A meal is considered to be at least a lean protein and a complex carb and need to be eaten together. By the time 6pm came around i had no desire to eat anything else, trust me. It might be on amazon, and it is not that expensive. It's at least worth the read, i learned a lot.