Originally Posted by
sprince
If you need structure, plan to ride your bike at a certain times and stick to it. Do yourself a favor and strive to eat healthy foods (fresh vegetables, unprocessed foods, no refined sugar) and don't get caught up in calorie counting, diets and other unhealthy obsessions. Do this and the rest will take care of itself.
I should note that I count calories not for the sake of counting calories, but so that I stop overeating. That's basically how I got to this point. Keeping a food log and seeing how many calories everything is was pretty eye-opening. I try not to get too obsessive about staying under the recommended limits.
As for diet, I'm mostly concerned with nutritional timing I guess. I'm not so much concerned with exactly what to eat as with when to eat what with regards to training (some stuff is obvious like eating a healthy source of carbs on the ride).