I made it through my "planned interruption". I will not lie - it was hard. First of all, my period was late and while I had all of the crazy symptoms it wouldn't start until after I stopped taking my drops. Interesting, I wonder what will happen next month. After I got past the extreme hunger (2 or 3 extra days, no drops and only 500 calories) I started feeling awful. I was hot all the time (previously cold), hungry - but not stomach growling hungry but the feeling faint and sick to my stomach hungry.

I did not take my drops for 11 days. I continued to weigh my self until I left for my camping trip on day 7. I feel like I did okay. I ate carbs - I think I didn't have as much will power because I didn't take the break seriously - mostly thinking that I would be going back on low calorie in a week and I would just pay the price. I also found it hard to be "off the diet" with restrictions. I think most of that is mental though, since I need to take my 3 weeks after stopping the drops very serious and not screw up next time. I found myself eating more carbs towards the end of the break - probably because I started craving them again. Ugh. Need to do much better next time around.

Total change during interruption - 1 pound gained.

I have another months worth of drops, I need to decide if I am going to do another month or take another break. I am a little scared either way. Not sure if I am going to stall now or if the break may do me more harm than good. Tough decisions.

I am not opposed to doing another round, but I think I need to try a couple of weeks without carbs and sugars and without the HCG, I can't take this forever and I need to learn how to do it on my own.