If you are looking to stay in a particular weight class for some kind of competition, I can see that, but otherwise actual body weight doesn't mean very much - body fat is a much more interesting number (in my opinion).
I always think it is funny that, according to body weight alone, most (if not all) of the champion body builders would be considered obese (while having single digit body fat!).
Losing weight means eating less calories than you burn. Gaining weight means eating more calories than you burn. In either case, exercise will insure that your body stays lean, while a lack of exercise will insure that it stays fat.
So in your case, if you want to maintain your weight, that means eating the same number of calories that you burn off. To insure you burn fat and not muscle, strength training and HIIT is the way to go.
I have been told that to burn fat AND gain muscle at the same time, however, is not a very easy thing to do, and requires careful calorie control. I think that's why body builders tend to do things in phases - i.e. bulk (i.e. add a little fat and a lot of muscle) and then cut (i.e. drop a lot of fat and a little muscle).
Brian.
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