Yes, I wondered about that too. Our Prof Taylor said that being on meal replacement sachets meant that hunger was lowered - but as you know I was also wondering if that was just classic English understatement.
I hear you though! And I read your post referring to the 'minor inconvenience' you experienced on the 8 weeks on the ND - and the 3rd or 4th time I read it, I began to believe you. And now the 'Truthfully no hunger' I just have to accept that it was true!
And maybe that guy in Prof Taylor's pic really WAS smiling from lack of hunger, lol. It was really just me who was not smiling! At least not that day. But I'm smiling now. (I just had dinner. A very very small dinner, where I had to weigh the pork chop, and cut it into a pretty small piece - but it WAS a piece of pork chop. Yum.)
I wonder also if it is plain old metabolism differences. I have always had a very hearty appetite, and I am very sensitive to food and exercise, as both can make a dramatic impact. Maybe after 5 weeks my body just wanted to have 'a Feed me' hissy fit? (And I am ah, rather highly expressive.) (I calmed down after dinner. And I went to sleep early - which is a major way I deal with supper-less evenings.)
Before doing my deviated ND I was most afraid of the hunger. The other day when I posted on my hunger - that was the worst experience I have had of it - apart from when I started with a water-only four-day fast - the third and fourth day of that was pretty intense! So intense I was frankly relieved to start on the deviated ND. (800-900 calories was WAY better than nothing!) (I got over it after a week.)
My partner was also most afraid of what I would be like hungry!
. But actually - compared to the mood swing roller coaster ride I had been on in the couple of years previously when neither of us knew I had T2D (and the prediabetic period we must have endured also) - bearing with me hungry is a walk in the park in comparison! When I had become diabetic but didn't know it, I lost friends (due to my bad moods), and now, even though I am really hungry - I am making them again. I smile again. I even sing when I walk - which is what I used to be like before I lost my health. So you see what I am saying - the hunger is way better than madly uncontrolled blood glucose levels. And there is an end in sight to the hunger. Thank goodness. Amazing that blood glucose levels can affect one so much - but high blood glucose levels clearly affect me, as do prediabetic-normal ones (as they are now). Or so it seems to me at any rate.