Hey there brettsza!
I am on Day 35, last day of Week 5, today. (Yeah - I am counting! Boy am I counting!)
But I am totally sick of being hungry. I am hungry all the time. I am only not hungry when I am asleep, or out on a walk. (A good reason to walk!)
Sadly for me, I actually believed the ND commentators who said that the appetite is suppressed, usually around day 3. If I wasn't so hungry, I would write to Prof Taylor and tell him that including that photo of the smiling NDieter was false representation (in a youtube lecture in Nov 2014 I think it was). I have seen that photo a few times now - and I think he is smiling - not because the diet is so easy to be on, as reported, but because of the camera, and the lovely scientist /nurse taking the insulin or BG! I would bet my sorry hungry life on it! Lol. I'm putting it down to cultural differences - and the infamous Brit thing of understatement. (Understatement= Being hungry for 8 weeks is OK because of the high levels of relief at bringing down BG levels to healthier ones, and at worst it is really only "bothersome", and the worst aspect of it is the sachets and the one vege dish on the classic ND is merely "boring". My translation from Brit-speak to what I REALLY think it is could be offensive? So I won't include it!) (And my long long dead English great grandmother is looking over my shoulder right now, telling me that when in Diabetes.co.uk - understatement and politeness is the rule!) (The fact that my dead in 1940-something English grandmother is looking over my shoulder may have something to do with my......hunger!)
I imagined, when I was imagining being on this diet for only four weeks (I couldn't cope with the idea that I would be on it for the whole 8 weeks!), that ketosis would kick in, that satiety would be increased, miraculously making hunger go away, or greatly decrease it, (I have a chart on my fridge saying this) and I would sail off into the ND sunset... appetite well suppressed. Well, my appetite is NOT suppressed. Not at all! I would laugh, but I am too hungry to laugh.
I know - I am not too hungry to not be keying. But I am really tired of looking up calorie content of food. I am really tired of keying in my calorie content every time I eat, and I am really tired of pricking my fingers. (But honestly - I really can't get my head around doing the ND without testing one's blood glucose levels. How do you know if it's working otherwise?!)
But yes - if I had been getting FBG at the levels I get every morning now, over 5 weeks ago, I would have been on cloud 9.
But you know what I am going to say - I am too hungry to be on cloud 9!