Thinking about taking a week off?

I have been at this for over 8 months now. I have lost 30 pounds, which is great, though it's really slowed down now. I currently am not lowering my cals or reworking anything until I actually stay stuck at one weight for a good few weeks or I stop seeing any changes in pics/measurements. I would rather keep my cals as high as possible and not have to kill myself at the gym (I do exercise) so this stays as sustainable as possible.
However the last couple weeks have been a bit of a struggle with my eating. In the last 10 weeks I have been over my weekly cals twice, which is actually better than I was doing before the last 10 weeks. I was going over more often before these last 10 weeks, however when I was under I had usually been under my weekly goal by around 1000 cals. Now I am eating right up to them or slightly over, this is actually why I may have slowed down a bit with my loss. My daily goal is 1800 which is 12,600 a week. However I was finishing up 1000 cals a week under which is 11,600 which means 1650 (or so) a day. So now I am generally eating about 100-150 more per day (if we averaged out the cals for the week).
I manually set my goals based on what I calculated my TDEE seemed to be, which is about 2200 cals (using a couple different TDEE cals, using moderate exercise as I have a standing job, ride my horse 5-6 times a week, and I do Ripped in 30 5 times a week) so eating 1800 seemed to be a good target for me. But maybe it is too much.... ANYWAYS like I said I am waiting for an actual stop in weight loss before I change my cals. Though looking back through my weigh ins I've only lost about 3 pounds since the beginning of April (well, I would have if I hadn't shown a gain of 1.2 pounds this week, hopefully due to TOM and fluid retention in my muscles)
HOWEVER with all that rambling aside (when I start writing things out I end up going down different thought paths haha) I was thinking about potentially taking a week off and eating at roughly maintenance (still logging and weighing everything, and doing my DVD's). Giving myself a bit of a break to hopefully let me to relax so I can get back to it. BUT I'm not sure if I want to do this, just cause I want to give in to my desire/cravings to eat and it will end up spiralling back into old habits. But if I do log and track still and have a plan then that should keep me focused too right?
For those of you that have taken a break, why did you do it? How long did you do it for? Were you able to get right back to it? Were you happy you did it?
I will be horse showing this next week(and the week after) and so I thought that this would be a good week to be a bit freer with my cals.
Sorry this is so rambling. Main question is Would you take a week off? I guess side question is, would you, if you were me, change your calorie intake goals?