Looks like you have a good plan by your coach. It looks to me as though you'll be doing phase 3 for 2 weeks before you go away so why don't you just go into maintenance and have your clean days after you cheats days, if you already completed phase 3 properly there should be no reason to keep that up when go away. Do phase 4 maintenance, eat good healthy carbs 2x a day you will not gain weight if your doing a clean day after your cheat day! Then if you still feel the need to loose more weight, when you get home go back onto phase one to clean yourself up again.

I have been on a couple of holidays since starting. For the first one, I packed my food and good intentions and then promptly ate and drank way more than I should have. The second time, I was more realistic - I indulged in a little wine and some off plan foods. I didn't lose that week, but I didn't gain. Giving myself permission to enjoy celebrating with my family, meant I was mostly behaved and enjoyed it immensely. My friend left for Newfoundland last week and we discussed that it wasn't feasible to give up the best north Atlantic lobster, so she made a rule - "lobster ok, toast not ok" and she's good with that.

Oh, but I thought the idea was to eat your carbs at night to fuel the body the next day as it takes time for the conversion to take place. In other words, if I'm going to run i can't eat a bowl of pasta and expect to be charged with carbs in two hours. So carbs at breakfast...phase 3 thing...thought it stays same in 4 but with the carbs added at night and always separate from fats.
I guess when you live it you "get it".
I'd like a personal chef.....

Yes. You have the right idea, thats what I was trying to say. But the carbs you eat at brkfst will fuel you later in the day then the dinner carbs will help out in the am thru the afternoon. Exactly right, try not to mix the fats and carbs at the same meal, unless its your cheat day. Your good to go, congrats!

Definitely keep me posted on what you decide to do and how it all works out. I think I might mention it my coach next week so she can have some time to think about it and we can start discussing my plan of action. If I end up doing the same thing (1) week at P2 and (2) at P3, then I will need to start on Sept. 1. P4 definitely seems totally doable for vacation.

I would personally swap between Phase 1 and Phase 2 for the duration of the trip, and not phase out until at goal... I've heard a lot of people say (including my coach), that once you phase out, it's really hard (mentally) to get back to Phase 1. If you let things slip now because you are "close enough", you might then thinks it's ok to gain a few pounds. Then a few becomes 5, 10, etc. Not what I want to do, personally. But I wish you luck with whatever you decide to do.