[Kick 6]

This thread has made me say "Wow." It really doesn't matter what form of calories you eat, what matters is the total amount relative to your metabolism. You can eat chocolate cake and lose weight, you just may not be able to eat much of it. You need to examine your total daily caloric intake. It should be approximately 12 times your body weight. You aren't lean enough yet to have to reset leptin levels, so just shore up your diet and you should continue to drop weight for a little while. You will have to spike leptin at some point but that is often under 15% bf. We're all different so it can vary slightly.

There are two trains of eating patterns we should all identify with. Eating for health, and eating for weight loss. They are often very different but can be tailored to be similar. Many people think they are eating "clean" but don't examine what they are doing to their GI bacterial ratios. This is a deep subject that most don't study. I'm always learning, but there are many pieces to this puzzle.