Someone mentioned on here that the difference between naturally thin people and those that yo yo with regain is one group is better about naturally without really even needing to think about it balance their higher cal/cab days with lower ones at about the same rate. I think that makes since. While maintaining its not unusual for me to treat my self at night with a spoonful of peanut butter but I don,t tend to skip a meal that often unless I make a point to. So that occasional peanut butter treat ends up as a gain overall because I am not offsetting it with a cal . deficit . When maintaining it becomes just as much about balancing cals as it does staying lowcarb. While maintaining there just isn,t much wiggle room