DNJ,
It is very true that if you follow the maintenance guidelines you will not regain weight.
The problem has been that my mother and step-father are living with us and they don't eat that way. They eat at 8:00, noon and 6:00 p.m. and LOVE high-carb stuff. They always have desert. She is 83 and he is 91, so they aren't going to change. We gradually slipped into bad eating habits by accomodating them.
It's time to be strong again! It won't be a big problem, and I'm really looking forward to doing it again. I actually have regained less than 20 pounds of the 47 pounds I lost, but as Barney Fife says "It's time to nip it!"
DonM