I see alot of people doing the low carb way but I'm curious to whether you can eat low carb but not lose weight as I'd rather not lose anymore.
I lost weight in the first two months of low-carb but since then the weight has been at a rock-steady, and healthy, level. You are less than half my age and T1, I am T2. We are all different so you won't really know how your weight is affected unless you try it out.
If anyone could post what they typically eat for meals that would be awesome!
There is a separate "low-carb" sub-forum that you may find helpful.
As for me, it goes something like this. Sorry about the length, but food descriptions are hard to abbreviate.
I started out with a very low-carb diet (probably ketogenic) i.e. fewer than 20g of carbs per day, but after getting the A1C down to a good level within two months, I loosened up and it's now between 30g and 50g of carbs per day. I have much of my carb load with breakfast, which is not necessarily typical (and my breakfast nowadays includes some cereal, which is a no-no if you want to go really low-carb). I am also still relatively "low fat" so this is not a full "LCHF" diet.
Breakfast: always the same. One tablespoon of homemade granola (muesli) mixed with one tablespoon of wheat bran (the latter helps with constipation, which is a side-effect of low-carb for some people). Topped with four thin slices of banana, two raspberries and four blueberries. Covered with just enough zero-fat milk to make it edible. After the cereal: two tablespoons of zero-fat Greek yoghurt. To drink: plain black coffee (about three cups during the morning).
Lunch: Typically a Greek salad i.e. lettuce, onions, feta cheese, small quantity of tomato, olives. Homemade dressing of olive oil, red wine vinegar and a pinch of salt. Also: half an avocado, with the same vinaigrette dressing. To finish: a handful of nuts (pecans, macadamias, small quantity of Brazil nuts). On some days, I will, instead, have a lunch of leftovers from a dinner a few nights before, but in small quantities. Or, about once a week, I cook a two-egg cheese-and-herbes-de-Provence omelette. To drink: a large glass of fizzy mineral water (San Pellegrino) with half a lemon squeezed into it.
Late afternoon, when settling in to watch the BBC1 10pm news (which is 5pm here in Eastern USA), I have an early-evening treat. Typically, either nuts (as with lunch) or two or three "keto seed crackers" with cheese (recipe here
https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/keto-seed-crackers). This is accompanied by a small (and I mean small, i.e. the 90ml glass that is quite hard to find in America) glass of dry red wine. I no longer drink much alcohol, so my treat is that I now buy really good wine, and always in half-bottles shared with my wife. Much more expensive per unit but cheaper overall because consumption has dropped so much.
Dinner, which is between 7:30pm and 8pm: hundreds of different possibilities, but ruling out bread, potatos, rice, pasta, fruit, the starchy kinds of vegetable, and almost all "processed" food with the exception of sausages, meatballs and supermarket jars of low-carb Italian sauce. Typically, fish/seafood once or twice a week (cod, haddock, salmon, mussels), chicken, pork, lamb chops, bacon-wrapped foods. Eaten with cauliflower rice, green beans, ratatouille (if you make onc large batch of this it will last several days). I also do quite a lot of "spiralizing." Two favorite "spiralized" dishes are zucchini (courgette) noodles with shrimp, and celeriac spaghetti with low-carb meatballs and low-carb Italian sauce. For dessert: cheese with low-carb crackers. To drink: one more small glass of dry red wine. (Total wine consumption per day: 180ml.)
Throughout the day: I drink a fair amount of water. At least 2 liters (in addition to drinking during meals). To make this less monotonous, about half of it is fizzy mineral water, the other half being tap water.
If I ever feel like being naughty, I cheat by increasing the quantity of wine -- to about half a bottle in one day, imbibed with food. This happens once or twice a week. Dry red or white wine is relatively low-carb so I don't worry too much about this.
For the effects of this diet, see signature below.
