Gaining weight after a long ride?

[shootingstar]

Drifting away...

Maybe it's menopause, but I'm finding I need to eat on a ride now, which I never needed to before. Otherwise I'm toast after an hour and a half of hill riding, or two hours pacelining. IF I have a nice BIG bowl of brown rice about four hours before the ride, I won't need to eat on a three-hour ride; otherwise, I have to eat.

Gee, in the last few years, the only time I eat any big bowl of rice is for supper. Even then, I have to be abit careful of spiking my sugar levels at the wrong time of day. It's very rare that I have that type of meal for lunch anymore. Would you be eating this brown rice bowl for lunch or breakfast??? for a ride.

And forget about rice congee for breakfast (which I find bland). I'm too North American for my breakfasts but I suppose I would if no choice, if I travelled around in Asia. This is another reason I don't want to rely heavily on sport gels, drinks....a person must be able to sustain themselves...with local or the least processed food wherever worldwide and at home, while cycling on decent distances.