The same applies to your muscular size and strength.
If you don't use your muscles they will become smaller and weaker and will require more effort building them back to their former condition than it would have taken to maintain them.
Fitness maintenance requires minimal effort once you have achieved a level that you are happy with.
If you are happy with the level that you have reached then there is no need to continue challenging yourself to reach higher goals.
Just by continuing on with fitness maintenance you will still be improving your overall health, as the more we exercise the better conditioned we get even if we are doing the same exercises with the same weights every week.
Naturally you will get more benefits if you strive to do better all the time, but sometimes it does a lot of good to have a break from trying to better yourself and just implement a program of maintenance for a while.
Generally people who do this find renewed enthusiasm after a while and either change or improve their training program.
Having a record of what you looked like, and what you were able to achieve when you started your fitness program, and where you managed to progress to, is often the best motivator to get back on a fitness program if you ever take a break.
Some people like to have a complete break for a short while before resuming whereas others like to continue with light training for a period of time.
Whatever works best for you is the action you should follow, keeping in mind that it is always easier to maintain fitness than to start again from a lower level.
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