I can get by without medication and suspect that is an advantage, mentally - I know that I have only got diet to keep control of the diabetes.
There are recipes for low carb baking, but I think you need to consider your family - my mother and father had to move in with my father's parents in order to nurse my grandmother as she had complications of type two diabetes.
I am being very careful about contacts, but find no problem in dancing around the kitchen if it is wet outside, on dry days I can go into the garden and use the trampoline, do some skipping on the decking or a few stretches and bends.
Maybe start by writing out a menu for the week and buying the things required to make them?
Then you need to tell yourself - if it isn't on the list, you don't eat it. Do get yourself some real treats - meat or fish/seafood you really like, cruise the vege aisles to find some fresh and delicious things, buy cream and frozen berries for desert, make real custard and sugar free jellies on the condition that you do not eat high carb foods as well.