Correct body weight - My story

Even though my activity level has varied somewhat as events and priorities has changed, I have never been inactive. Phocused fitness training has not always been a priority, especially during the last 5 years before the summer of 2014.
Skiing, bike, snowkite, paragliding and general outdoors activities has kept me fairly active with seldom less than 5 to 7 hours of training per week.

(I define training as anything that takes my pulse above 100 for an extended period of time.)

But I never gave any paticular thoughts about nutrition and calorie intake.
I would not say that I was eating badly either, but just ate what I wanted without any plan.

Up until that stage, I hardly ever stepped on a scale, being used to my high activity level to burn off any excess calories. But as age increases, metabolic rate decreases and that means that you just must work harder to burn off what you put in.

So the decision to take on the Ironman challenge triggered some serious "soul searching" where some questions demanded dead honest answers regarding my nutritional habbits and current body composition.

I am 180 cm and have a lean body type.

The transformation from "a bit too much" to racing weight

Left: October 2014, 86 kg, body fat around 24%       Right: August 2015, 74 kg, body fat around 12%
                       13 kg of excess fat to shed...                    About 1 kg above my "perfect" racing weight

Make no mistake of this; Long course triathlon is brutally hard, it is simply impossible to be sucessful if you carry many kilos of excess weight on your body.
One of my first big decisions in this project was to change my eating habbits and loose ALL excess weight, and as it eventually turned out great, this is how I did it...