Bulked to 145 at 16, any healthy way to cut fat?

I used to be skinny fat at 125, little to no muscle, but cutting would have meant going close to underweight at the time about a year ago.

I’ve been off and on, but I’ve had two 4 month weight lifting journeys, one up to a year ago about this time, and one from Late August to now (and still going), and bulked up to 145 pounds (can’t go significantly higher, planning on joining AFROTC in the future, 5’6 maximum is 155 pounds and I’m waiting to see if I’ll get any taller before trying to bulk up any more, so that’s not an option)

Problem is, I’m still around the same 23-25% body fat as when I started, and I want to at least reduce that to AT LEAST under 20% to reduce some of the excess fat on me, possibly lower eventually, but not if losing weight to get there would be unhealthy.

It seems like teen weight loss is kinda mixed, some sources say it’s not advisable AT ALL, some say up to a 300-500 calorie deficit is okay, personally, my plan was to lose around 0.5-0.6% BW per week, but if I had to go at a rate of 0.25%, or even 0.1% to not mess things up, I’d do it

Now one other thing, yes I could get to under 20% just by recomposition, but this would take several months and I know from several weeks of research that it’s much slower than a cut and lean bulk cycle, so if I CAN, I want to use cut and bulk cycles to my advantage, any thoughts?

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