Hi I have been reading your updates and am feeling completely inspired by what you are doing. Thank you! I was diagnosed T2 in June and have been low carbing with metformin which has brought me down to around 7 but I really want to do the Newcastle diet and see if I can get lower and lose the pills.
Now your BG is "reasonable" it is mostly about losing weight and exercise.
"Resistance training" and "internal high-intensity training" have been proven to work very well and are not that complex.
"internal high-intensity training" => "walk, run, cycle, whatever" as hard as you can for 2 minutes, then slow to recover for about 5 minutes and repeat a few times.
Moderate balanced diets have been proven not to work well for us (otherwise we would not have Type2!). Both
very low calorie diets (e.g. Newcastle diet) and intermittent fasting (fasting for at least 2 days a week) give people great results.
There is nothing magic about the details of the Newcastle diet you just have to keep to very low calorie for at least a few days at a time until you have lost a lot of weight. If the calories are not low enough your body will just use less energy to composite, if the calories are very low (well under 1000 a day) then our body gives us lots of energy so we can go and hunt for food.
The Newcastle diet is defined as it is to enable controlled research - unless you are doing medical research wanting everyone to lose weight at the same rate etc, the details are not important.