There are two types of pizzas, one is great as carb load, fuelling for tomorrows big ride etc, and one is maybe the one you shouldn’t eat too often if you’re trying to lose weight.
Lets call the good pizza the performance pizza - Pizza Marinara (tomato sauce, garlic, and maybe some turkey) Its high carb and low fat - perfect! Missing some protein maybe but you can add some greek yoghurt or something on the side. Maybe even make some greek yoghurt garlic sauce to have on the pizza.
Then we have the “life is great” pizza - Any pizza with lots of cheese on.
The main issue with lots of cheese is that it’s basically just pure fat, lots of calories, and also hinders some of the carbohydrate uptake.
It’s just basic understanding of food. Cheese is amazingly good but it’s really unhealthy from a nutritional perspective, there is no way to get around that.
Cheese, mayonnaise, hollandaise, butter, etc are all tasty as hell, but if we look at it from a performance and calorie perspective, they don’t add much more than taste and usually a calorie surplus.
Example of a great pizza to have the night before a hard/long ride: tomato sauce, 30g parmesan for taste, garlic and red onion
