On all of the cross country days of 85-100miles at an average of 15 mph I was burning between 3,000-4,000 calories a day just on biking-plud another 1500 just functioning. I couldn't eat enough to satisfy the need for food- yes I was eating while I was riding. Over the 58 days of the last cross country I lost almost 15 pounds, but unfortunately most of them came back in the next three months, since it was hard to rein my eating back and get used to restricting my intake back to 1850 calories a day.

I also spent a week after the ride, sleeping til 10:30, getting up , wandering out to find some lunch, eating, going back to the motel, sleeping until 4:00 pm, taking a walk, finding dinner, going back to the motel, going to bed at 7:00 pm and repeating again the next day.

Maybe you need to let yourself eat lots of good healthy stuff for a day or two and sleep a lot.

Incidentally, my favorite recovery foods after a long ride are honey greek yogurt with wallnuts, almonds and a few sunflower seeds and a fruit smoothie mad with protein pattern.

Congrats on your riding.

marni