When I cut grains and refined carbs from my diet, my near-constant hunger went away within about a week, after I adapted to being in mild ketosis. I get hungry now only many hours after I wake in the morning. With a lite lunch, I get hungry again about 8 hours later for dinner, and generally feel no need for between-meal snacking. The net result is intermittent fasting that lasts about 15 or 16 hour per day.
[[MORE]]I also find, though, that a meal moderately high in complex carbs, including certain vegetables, can throw a wrench into things for a day or so. I get more hungry those days, and I also see my blood glucose go up.
It's interesting to me that one of the recommendations for diabetics from experts like Dr Richard Bernstein is to keep blood glucose within a range of about 10 points, 24 hrs a day. Yet non-diabetics often have huge swings, ranging from perhaps 80 to 140 or more over the course of a day. Due to the pro-aging effects of insulin, I am increasingly convinced that non-diabetics would also benefit from keeping their blood glucose under equally tight control.
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