ilovecherries well done - being able to maintain during a stressful / busy work period is quite an amazing feat and you should be proud of yourself for that. Plus isn't it great to know what you have to do / eat to shift a 4lb creep, and to have the motivation to do it. Six stone since 2017 is such an achievement. I've lost 3st in the same period experimenting with a variety of approaches and then being pretty much consistently low carb for the last 20 months.
@Summery1 I get what you mean about carbs seem to demand more carbs I had afternoon tea at the weekend which obviously was as far off piste as you can get, and then the next day I found myself driving past McDonald's and feeling tempted by a big mac, fries, and coke - and I HATE coke!
But I wonder what you mean about feeling like you need a little break? Do you mean a break from the pressure of jumping on the scales, worrying about the number, the pressure to complete the spreadsheet? Or it is a beak from obsessively reading the carb content on every packet, having to make choices to turn down the cakes at work / biscuits with coffee, or trying to devise family friendly meals that are lc for you but maybe more substantial for others (or which include their 'favourite' carby foodstuff)?
I'm really at a maintenance weight now, so the significance of the numbers (whether that's weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, dress size) are less prominent. But in relation to this way of eating and lifestyle, the longer I do it, the more I learn about how to make the choices that feel right for me, the easier I find it to refuse bread with a bowl of soup, and the better I become at understanding my Achilles heel, the moments when I will find it impossible to resist, and the ways I can combat it (5 macadamia nuts in my pocket, a square of 90% dark chocolate to grate on my raspberries and cream, butter whizzed into coffee if I'm craving a latte).
Keep the 10 10 dream alive, you're so close - imagine 10stone 10pounds by the 10th of October - that would be a milestone 