Britta,
Yours is a question that would be better addressed to your supervisor(s), who have some responsibilty for, and a stake in how you conduct and present your work.
The two replies here so far have both supported keeping discussion separate from results. I agree with that and with the advice to think of what your readers will want or expect, especially examiners, reviewers, and others who might want to use your work. I would say that results should be presented in a neutral way, as clearly and objectively as possible. You did the work (experiments, studies, investigations, whatever) and this is what you found. Readers will want to be able to see, consider and check the results, without caveats or commentary obscuring them. You should then discuss the results, putting them into context, especially with respect to other related work (that you will have discussed previously) and your research questions (that you will have presented previously), acknowledging the limitations of your particular study (to show that you are aware of them), and suggesting other studies that might be done to take the work further, or to clarify and extend your results (to show that you are now a capable researcher).
One more thing: something that PhD students usually do not do much of is read other (successful) theses to see and learn from how others have done it.
Good luck!
Nigel Cross
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