Interesting question. I’m assuming the benefits will continue if your weight is controlled, your diet is healthy and you continue to exercise. My personal experience of maintaining though, requires following a fasting regime, either 6:1 or 5:2. I’ve been maintaining for over 2 years and am waiting for my latest blood tests. If I don’t fast I gain weight no matter how careful or well I eat.

@goslo. You will get a lot of residual benefits if you go off 5:2 but in my opinion it is not as good as regular complete (water only) fasting. Watch youtube clips by Valter Longo. Increased autophagy (controlled killing of poorly function cells). Increased ability to utilise ketone bodies for energy rather than just glucose. Increase white cell count (big boost post fasting, actually drops during fasting). Increased sensitivity of endocrine system. Lower insulin levels. Better pancreas, liver kidney function to name a few. The list goes on.

@goslo. Its a 36 hour fast. Last meal Sunday dinner, next meal Tuesday breakfast. I only fast once per week same day every week. Been in maintenance since March 2016. Do not expect fasting to be “easy” from the get go. I noticed a big change after about 6 months. After that it became fairly easy. I put this down to the fact that it took my liver a long time to become good at processing stored fats into energy. The liver’s job is to store excess energy as fat and to retrieve fat and turn it into glucose (and ketones) for energy use when food intake is low. In our modern eating too much lifestyle we hardly use our liver for this second function. Hence it becomes very lazy and inefficient.

That’s a damn good walk, Id be tired as well.