I have noticed an interesting change in my appetite pattern in the last year.
I normally ride a minimum of three times a week. A long roadie at weekends and a couple of middling off road rides in the week (100 and 35 to 40) respectively. Sometimes more.
When I was shall we say, less attuned to longer rides (max would be in the 35 to 40 mile range), I would practically inhale food when I got home. Hide all edible material or else it will be immediately ingested sort of thing.
Nowadays I can quite readily eat when I get home (even after a long road ride) but there is no immediate panic to take calories on board and I’ll comfortably wait an hour or so before eating…and then only normal portions (pretty large by most people’s standards). If presented with a large plate of food on arrival at home I’d rather wait than eat it on the spot.
Is this an entirely normal phenomenon? Has this happened to other people? Before you ask, it has coincided with weight loss (gradual) even though I eat well above the average number of calories in the course of a day.