Take a Break: Beneficial?

So, i realize i have gotten a little bit too obssessed with weight loss recently and it's starting to get me down; i did really well and got halfway to my goal, but i've just had an awful couple of weeks with a break up, losing my flat, trouble at work, and unfortunately even though i have tried, i have failed and put on about 5lbs.

I lost the weight in the beginning in a very healthy week, but since everything kicked off i have been very naughty and found myself in a bit of a starve-binge cycle, which i have been in before and was quite difficult to break out of, and so don't really want to go there again. All i think about is food, when i'm going to eat, what i'm going to eat. Then i feel guilty if i eat, i'm hungry, i weigh myself every day and become miserable if i gain even .25 of a lb over night. I go to the gym four or five times a week, a mixture of strength and cardio, but mostly cardio. However, with everything that has been going on i've been lucky to hit the gym even once a week.

So, my plan is thus; to take a break, (sort of). Well, to relax a bit. I'm going to mentally count and track calories and exercise, but i'm not going to log. I'm going to up my daily calorie allowance, as it is quite low, and i will eat when i am hungry, and accept that i may but on a few pounds but not to freak out as it may be better in the long run. And i'm going to weigh myself once a week, instead of every day.

Has anybody else taken a break like this before? How did it affect your weightloss? Did you find that you went a bit mad and put on a few pounds? And if so, what did you do, did you carry on and hope your body would level out, or did you drop your calories again, or do more exercise? Or maybe you found that once you stopped caring so much and stopped messing your body around so much, you actually lost weight?

I'm not here to moan, that was purely so you would understand the context of this question, but i am curious to know if other people have taken a bit of a step back and what their results were, just so i can be prepared!

Thanks

I struggle with this as well! As much as I love MFP, I find that it does make me obsessive. Sometimes I wonder what is worse. Being so obsessed with calories, counting and numbers. Or not logging and fearing I will fly off the handle and gain it all back. It's a mental struggle sometimes. Hang in there, you are not alone!