Nice to meet you.

What KittyKat is saying sounds sensible to me. Suzanne recommends you eat your carbs for breakfast and lunch and if you want to jump start your weight loss, go with primarily pro/fats meals for the first week or two. I usually eat carbs two or three times a week in the form of cereal for breakfast or a pasta thing for lunch. If you are burning that many calories then you might be fine eating carbs for breakfast every day that you ride. Fruit is allowed and it's a good source of quick energy, so you could eat fruit as a snack during or right after a ride.

Like KittyKat says, Suzanne's combo fruit/carbs breakfasts might work well for you. I often have a smoothie first thing when I get up, then go out and exericise for half an hour and have a bowl of cereal or some toast when I get back in. That seems to be very satisfying for me, and fruit snacks when I'm hiking hard and my knees start getting wobbly are perfect.

What the heck, give it a try and see how it goes. Each person has to tweak this a little to get it to suit them just right, so don't be afraid to fiddle around with it. As long as you don't eat the "funky" stuff and stick to her combining plan, Suzanne's WOE is very flexible.

You might also visit her site and check out the discussion board there. There is a larger group of Somersizers posting there and there might be someone in exactly the same position as you.

Another thing you might try is doing a search of this site for cyclists, athletes or similar kinds of keywords to see if you can find a group of LC people with the same needs you have and hear how they've worked through them.

Best of luck to you!

MB