Its been a week now since I stopped taking my birth control pills. This whole week I've hardly been able to stop eating!! That's the exact opposite effect I was hoping for. I willing to bet this is just some sort of PMS type of reaction, my body flushing out the artificial hormones. Fortunately with working and exercising I've been able to week it from making the scale go up, but I haven't been able to keep the guilt of over eating down.