funerals and weight

I was frustrated with my weight this past week, but opening the paper and seeing that someone i know had died at 57 kinda of put it in perspective.  It doesn't mean i should stop my diet...if anything it should make me keep to it better so my son doesn't lose his mother like his friend lost his dad.....but it does put the importance of what I will post later in it's place.  His friends dad was never heavy in the 25+ yrs i knew him...he used to be a lean busy man......and then he developed a chronic debilitating disease and then other systems began to break down and give him problems.  The last time I saw him he was on the thin side and with his muscle wasting he did not look good....if only we could convince the anorexics that thin doesn't always look good....forget you can never be too thin, you can.
I need to continue on the straight and narrow, eating right and tracking my food, cal, and fluids...I also need to get going and exercise to the limit that i can without injuring my hurt joints while I am still healthy enough to.....but whether I lose 3 to 4 pounds this week or 1/2 to 1 doesn't matter as long as I'm doing the right thing. The end will be reached with consistency and then I will know that I did my part to stay around.

Now the saga of my weight:
i started with the low carb days from P5 at 242
and the following week i was 239
i then rtnd to the higher carb days and on tues i was 240.5
i was on plan  and on water.  i then cut the carbs down some
and on thur i was 238
but in looking over my tracker i realized my water was low......
so i increased it and on sat was 239
and on sun 238.5.
I am now using a mix of the days and eating 3 fruits but keeping the carbs such as pot, rice, crackers, bread to complex choices and to 2 servings. I am back to a min of 18 glasses of fluids and picking days with more protein from among all the various menus we have.  Continuing to weigh and measure and will restart the exercise program and will see how this week does. I have 23 weeks and 80 pounds to reach my goal by my birthday.....so I need to average 2 pounds a week....and as I know that the loss is slower closer to goal, i need more than 1/2 or 1 pound now....