I hate plateaus

I really hate hitting a plateau! I play with my diet and up my calories and I actually lose weight. Weird! I also realized that I was not drinking enough water. After the 5K I got a bad headache that lasted until Monday. The cause was dehydration. I have drank so much water this week that I feel I could float away.
I started strength training this week and boy am I sore. My body hurts very bad. I feel like I have been run over by a herd of wild bulls. Why do I feel 18 in my mind but 90 in my body? Lol
While using the weight machines I sat in front of a mirror wall with a full body view of myself yuck! I am losing weight from my feet to my mid thighs and then from my forehead to my ribs. Why can't it all just meet in the middle? I felt like Jabba the Hut sitting there. My face is looking droopy! WTH! I really need Botox in a bad way. I am loving the results, but I will need to see a Plastic Surgeon. I want body parts put back in their proper place. To put it nicely.
Back to Plateaus. I just hate it when you are kicking your butt at the gym and eating right. Counting every calorie and watching every item you eat. Simply just doing everything right. Then it's weigh in time and nothing! 2 weeks go by and still no loss or only a very small loss. That is very frustrating. What do you do? Some give up. I sure have wanted to. But I press on. I have upped my calories and increased my workouts. Changed the routine. Sometimes it still takes a day or two but it still breaks. What I find that has worked great is I don't do the same thing everyday. I change my caloric intake depending on my workout. I eat more protein on the high burn days. I eat light on non workout days. Your body thinks your killing it whenever you diet. So it will go into survival mode. It will burn muscle and store fat. It takes as much as 21 days to convince your body that your not killing it. Don't cut your caloric intake too low. Find out what your body burns daily then add exercise. Set your intake based on that number.
Just keep moving while you figure out what works for you and burn more that you take in.