There’s no real “goal” that you are striving for in a maintenance phase. When you are in a cut, you have these goals of getting lean and ripped to have 239123 abs. That can be motivating and keep you on track, whatever that might look like for you. If you have goals of gaining lean mass, then it creates more of an incentive to eat your meals and your daily calories to get you closer to said goal. 

Ahhhh intuitive eating. This is such a buzz topic!!! It's kind of just "normal people eating", but it is defined as nutrition philosophy based on the premise that becoming more attuned to the body's natural hunger signals is a more effective way to attain a healthy weight, rather than keeping track of the amounts of energy in foods.

Intermittent fasting (IF) is the name some nutrition experts give to the practice of occasionally going for extended periods without eating. This fancy name implies that IF is the exclusive domain of the nutritional elite. It’s not. In fact, we all do some form of IF every single day, except we don’t call it that. We call it sleeping" (Berardi, J.).