Brick by brick and stone by stone

I love visuals, so I made this today:

Starting weight: 277 lbs
Current weight: 262.1 lbs
+/- : -14.9 lbs

Stage 1
Goal weight: 244 lbs

1st mini-goal: 269 - Done
2nd mini-goal: 264 - Done
3rd mini-goal: 259
4th mini-goal: 254
5th mini-goal: 249
6th mini-goal: 244


Stage 2. Goal weight: 211 lbs
Stage 3. Goal weight: 178 lbs
Stage 4  Goal weight: 145 lbs
Stage 5: Decide if I want to get down to 140 or 135 and stay under 150.

     Today is one of those days where I start to think about going back to weighing myself once a week.
Yesterday I weighed in at 260.7 lbs. It felt so good, so very close to getting out of the 260s and into the 250s, which would bring me that much closer to my goal. Today, watching the scale bounce up that extra 1.4 lbs felt so terrible. I know that isn't much and can be easily accounted for, but it's just the way I'm wired; anytime the numbers rise, I feel bad, anytime they lower, I feel good. I'm trying not to worry about it too much though. I need to stay focused, not worry about yesterday and just do my best today.
    I also need to remember that 1) I am still a little ahead of my original goal for this month, and 2) for some reason this has been the nature of my weight loss from the get-go this time. I bounce around in a 2-3 lb range for about a week, this week it's been between 260 to 263, but in the end I still lose weight, and the range lowers.
    I'm just impatient; I want the weight off so badly sometimes that taking things one day at a time and making progress at or above the recommended rate feels like a snails pace. I realize that it's not going to come off in the drop of a hat. I've even mapped out a 5 stage, 2 year plan because that's how long it's going to take me if I do this correctly, and that helps, it still doesn't make this easy.