Congrats!! For me seeing those inches shrink is just as satisfying as seeing the scale drop.
Are you only measuring your waist? I think it's a lot of fun to measure a lot of places on my body (neck, arm, bust, ribs, waist, lovehandle region, hips, thighs, etc). I keep a spreadsheet of it all and track the monthly and overall changes in each body part (I am the spreadsheet nut, I have one for everything!).