I responded last night when my head was busy digesting a busy day of potentially very expensive purchases.
Anyway, I thinkcomparing your risk now versus when you weighed much more isn't helpful. It is also very noteworthy that when we lose a material amount of weight it can take our bodies a little while to redistribute the remaining fat resources. For example, I am very slight (never carried a lot of weight), but when I was initially diagnosed and went low carb, my love handles melted, but so did my upper arms and my neck and chest line - not that I was every incredibly pneumatic.
After a year, I realised things had evened out a bit, without adding or losing any weight. My visceral fat score has remained low.
Now, in your trimmer state, are you able to do more - long walks, gardening or other forms of exercise, that you were when heavier? Even if you don't, your joints will thank you for being lighter, which increases of changes of maintaining mobility, which I view as a key link to maintaining independence.
Some folks in older age find their appetites lessen a bit, but then they are could also be doing less and thereby realistically need less to maintain.
There are so many factors in the "old age thing". For me, I'd rather be an ancient whippet than an ancient bassett hound.
Each to their own, but be aware, few of us who have reached a point of remission know when that trigger point was (into then out of diabetes) was. Professor Taylor states he finds there is no universal BMI/weight or whatever that signifies "too fat", the but it does appear we have personal, but very difficult to pinpoint, weight/visceral fat point that renders us "too fat for OUR body".
Were you asking for it, my guidance to you would be to go into, or continue with a period of maintenance, after all that's the hard bit - maintaining those healthier eating patterns to protect our bodies. Nodoby benefots from going through the yo-yo of lose<>gain<>lose<>gain with weight.
If you want a really good MOT, then either ask your doctor for one, or volunteer for some research. There is a marvellous study running in the midlands, albeit focusing on cardiac health in those with T2 diabetes (criteria are an historic diagnosis of T2 and no confirmed cardiac failure). During that research project you have an amazing cardiac focused MOT, but the benchmarking covers many areas and tests.