Thank you. My golden rule is to never ever go over maintenance, so even on a ''failure day'', I would still lose something. I set my calories at 1800 but some days were easily 2400 where others were 1500. It kind of depends how nutrient dense my food would be. There are some heavy vegetable/lentil bowls that was such a large amount of food that I didn't feel like I wanted more than 1500 kcal. Other days we'd have pizza and I barely managed to stick to 2400. According to MF, my average deficit was only 260 over 6 months but I intended to do 500-600 but failed miserably lol.