Ups and downs and bmr

While looking up info on BMI, I stumbled on the acronym BMR = basal metabolic rate.  I input my own stats and it tells me that my daily intake should be at 1600.  I haven't been losing or gaining weight which has been discouraging so I was looking for insight.  Most people will only tout the math 3500 calories = 1 pound, but very few will tell you that going too low can create plateaus and slow your metabolic rate.  For every 15 lbs I lose, that daily intake drops 100 calories, but apparently I've needed those calories or my body cold simply be holding onto everything I take in to try (and fail) to convert it to energy.  So I'll try this new budget for a couple weeks and see where it gets me.  It honestly never occurred to me that these new muscles are thirsty, that they'll help me burn the fat, if I feed them well!  

I'm not going to say weight plateaus disappoint me anymore.  I'll figure that out.  I truly enjoy what I do for my muscles with exercise and I know better than to believe I'm failing when I've developed these amazing benefits to better health.  I already have a better relationship with food and my body moves with more confidence, grace and balance.  I look healthy and my usual clothes look baggier because my measurements are definitely shrinking even if the number on the scale isn't.  That will happen.  I'm on my 15th week of these programs and my other posts show significant progress.  Four months ago, I was discouraged, sure that after 6 months of failed programs and diets, I'd never find a way.  Still, I had lost 18 lbs in those months so I was learning then too.  It seems there is always more to learn about my own unique body chemistry as well as how it pertains to my existing and lifelong struggle with chronic pain.  I have been on this journey for 10 months and I'm finally grasping some  things and newly stumbling on others.  I've seen some real whack job theories and diets and have weeded through what works and doesn't work.  

And I get it, muscleheads; why you're always kissing them and flexing them.  Muscles are amazing.  I actually get it now.  It feels damn good!