Quote Originally Posted by tulip View Post
Everyone's different, but you might want to try eating more frequently during your rides. Stopping every 30 miles for a sandwich or a clif bar doesn't seem like enough to me.
I agree. When I do long rides, it is critical for me to have food coming in (liquid and solid) every 5 - 10 minutes. Just a bite or drink here and there, adding up to 250 - 300 calories an hour. Eating and drinking on the bike is key here. I really don't like to stop much, especially in a very long ride.

As Tulip noted, recovery food right after is also important. 300 - 500 calories within the hour after I'm done.

I find if I pay attention to both these issues, even after a hard double century or 300 - 400k, I'm not ravenous the next day/week. And that has been a KEY factor for me in losing weight this year. You didn't mention that as being an issue at all for you and it probably isn't, I just wanted to note that as counter-intuitive as it might sound, eating more at the right times (during and right after the ride) for me has been a key to eating less overall.