Maintaining sub 10% bodyfat sounds like quite a task. I'm sure some athletes can do it. I'm probably just below 20% and hadn't exercised until roughly 2 months

Maintaining sub 10% bodyfat sounds like quite a task. I'm sure some athletes can do it. I'm probably just below 20% and hadn't exercised until roughly 2 months before starting a diet (started strength training), so I have some wiggle room. Even so, people like myself seem to have difficulty maintaining the loss after the fact, which concerns me. My suspicion is that There's so much conflicting information on weight loss that I'm not sure if it will work, but my plan is to start tapering off the diet 50-100 calories a week as I approach that point to determine my new maintainence intake and maybe speed metabolism back up. However; after a little research, I think my current diet may be succeeding (in short-term) largely from a large increase in resting metabolism from strength training (and no longer eating a surplus to build that muscle).