You said "I am trying to decide whether I should stay on the pseudo maintenance level of carbs I am currently on that allows me to lose some weight, albeit slowly, or if I should go back to say induction and try to reach my new goal as fast as possible?"

Isn't there some middle ground? You don't have to go all the way back to induction levels to give your weight loss a shove. I added some fruit, as you did, as I was closing in on my goal, but other than that, I kept pushing until I reached my goal and saved the "stages" for afterwards. Those slow-down stages come at the very time that you are getting the most impatient. Backing off on the weightloss when the goal was within my grasp? No way! I'm closing in on a year of maintenance -- it's not as hard as they would have you believe.