@freetodowhatIwant when I'm maintaining i.e. not trying to lose anything at all, I carb cycle. I've read a lot about it and it's often used by people who are doing pretty heavy and rigorous exercise regimes, often to build muscle. In those situations there are some pretty strict routines of what to eat when in relation of cardio, HIIT, muscle workouts. It's certainly not just fancying a bit of cake with your coffee on the weekend 
When I'm choosing to carb cycle I'm doing it mainly for gut microbiome, and one day a week introducing small amount of higher carb food, but I chose low GI and natural - kidney beans, lentils, beetroot, some nuts. And not too much. However, on the day that I have higher carbs I do not also have high fat. So If I was having chilli with some kidney beans, my lunch might be avocado and salad but no olive oil, no mayonnaise.
But no sugar, no flour, no pasta.
The advantage of that kind of carb cycling is I can eat at a friend's house or have a wider menu choice when I'm out or eat a piece of fresh sourdough at my favourite restaurant, smothered in their fermented whipped butter Actually one day a lchf-ing friend and I had lunch at aforementioned eatery. They brought a basket of bread and a (quite big) pot of butter. When they came to take our orders the waiter looked a bit perplexed 'cos we'd each eaten about half a small slice of the bread, but ALL of the butter
Interestingly, last year I did something called 'ration challenge' where for a week I ate only the same food as is given to a person in a refugee camp. It was difficult timing in the middle of bootcamp, but I was committed to it. It was everything we don't eat on bootcamp - beans, lentils, flour, rice, only a couple of small pieces of vegetable in the week, and a small amount of protein (tinned fish and one egg). It was nutritionally balanced and about 1500cals (more than I was eating on bc), however, with the exception of loads of rice and flour, the quantities were small. Over the week I lost a pound, but I was hungry.
My conclusion (apart from all the other lessons I learned) was that I could lose weight on either a low fat carb-based diet OR on a lchf regime, but NOT on high fat high carb as lockdown has proved. And of the two ways of eating, I know which I prefer.
Apologies for the long post and apologies that some will have heard it from me before 