Ibuprofen and eating helped.
It's like before... the cold was just peaking around the corner a little. But then once it realized it had been spotted it said "F IT!" and just charged and tackled me lol.
Good times!
Lets see...
Broke fast after I posted earlier around 11:30 w/ a coffee half and half and monk fruit and a cup of kimchi.
Then at around 1:30 I had some grilled chicken breast no skin (b/c I ate it the night before :P lol) w/ some hot sauce and another cup of kimchi.
And now I just got done with dinner.
Keeping it all within my range so had about a cup and a half of kimchi and a salad
salad- romaine lettuce, tomato, cauliflower, pickled jalapeno, 1 avocado, oil & vinegar based 'Italian' dressing.
And a low carb yogurt to finish my day of eating.
I MIGHT have a square of 85% chocolate later but meh.. that will only add a few more calories and carbs so not a big deal.

Right now calories is sitting at about 1300.

Yeah it hasn't rained here... I think since that hurricane (Dorian?) skirted us. Maybe once? since then, but nothing else. All the plants are crispy outside.
It's supposed to be cooling off by this weekend. We usually have a pretty rainy fall and it's much needed right now.

Oh I'm beyond the point of "might be sick" and well in to the "totally miserably sick" lol.
It's just a cold though at least.

So water intake yesterday was great. I had like 2 or 3 diet sodas along w/ my coffee and drank the entire gallon of water.
This cold is making me super thirsty w/ the mouth breathing drying out my mouth and my nose hoarding all the moisture from my body to mass produce snot right now lol.

Honestly, I don't think I'm going to OMAD this week. I am jonesing for my warm cup of coffee right now b/c of this stupid cold. I might hold off on actually eating anything until later, but I'm having my coffee in the morning until I get over this first little hump in the cold.
Will still be keeping track of calories though!
I think I'll have a bone broth day one day this week. That will be nice w/ this stuffy nose. Add a ton of pepper to the broth and help clear my nose up for at least a second lol.

And I think being in maintenance is what kept my hair from falling out b/c it has starting coming out like it had been. Great
But I guess at least I know that once I get to maintenance, it will stop and hopefully? grow back.

Getting to maintenance is going to be a PITA though. I'm UP almost 3lbs this morning. Water retention from the cold most likely? Obviously not 3lbs of fat since I've been in a caloric deficit, so I'm not worried about it.

Well... Dinner was supposed to be lower calories... And then the brussel sprouts sucked up 3tbs of butter and left none for the zucchini and mushrooms so I had to use another for those. 4tbs of butter = 400 calories! Good grief.
AND I didn't even cook the brussel sprouts enough so they were still a bit too tough and now my jaw hurts from chewing those dang things lol.

Total calories today... About 1500.
/Grumble
Not making that mistake again

Thanks yall
Cooking dinner right now. Meat lasagna. Uses chicken lunch meat for the noodles lol. I know nothing can replace real noodles, but decided to give it a try anyway. Sure looks good. Calories might be up from it too. Already sitting at around 460 right now which isn't too bad, but with all that meat.. who knows. Not worried about it at all.

I also fixed a cream cheese/heavy cream blueberry & macadamia nut dessert but may have to save that for another day just to be on the safe side. Heavy cream is hella calorie dense! lol Ok so maybe I'll have a bite but that's it

Lasagna was pretty good. Not like regular stuff so I doubt I'll make it again. Just make the sauce and bake some cheese on it would be good enough for me and a lot less work lol.
Calories were still within range though... 1200-1300.
I controlled myself and only had 2 bites of dessert after

UP 3lbs this morning. I know it's just b/c I'm sick.. and b/c coffee failed me yesterday lol
Water was great. I had 3 diet sodas along with most of the gallon of water. Feels like I didn't need to pee quite as much, so I think this cold is just making me retain water.

Feeling about the same today (in terms of stuffiness) w/ a cough forming in my chest. So much fun.. especially when you can't really relax like you want.

Aaaaand I think that's it.

Lazy recap of food yesterday

2 cups of coffee
1 kebab using low carb tortilla shell
2 bites of dessert
meat lasagna