Can I also ask why you are not testing your bloods at home?
You are fearful of a few things it seems, but for me, my biggest fear would have been to go through the rigours of the ND, have lost weight, but not have achieved decent blood scores. Sadly weight loss does not guarantee the reversal of T2.
When diagnosed and choosing my regime (which was carb reduction and moderated calories) my only aim was for improved blood scores. If I lost weight, that would be a bonus, but I'm keen to focus on one goal at a time, where I can. Such was this focus (and external factors conspired against me too) that I didn't weight myself for almost 3 months after adopting my way of eating. I knew I had lost weight, as my clothes were flapping around me, and I knew my numbers were looking good, so I was achieving my primary goal, with the added value of trimming up, big stylee.
In my mind the thing is, I could lose 1 stone, 2 stones, 5 stones (OK, I didn't have that much to lose, but this is only my example) and think I must surely have reversed this thing, only to find that I'm in the 30% for whom it doesn't work - having put myself through a period of very unnatural eating. At that point, I'm not sure the disappointment wouldn't have caused me a great big, carb-tastic, backlash.
If your objective is to get your numbers consistently into the non-diabetic ranges, why are you measuring something else? If your primary objective is to lose a few pounds, the why put yourself through an extreme eating programme to do this. I ask the latter, as I seem to recall your concerns about longer term eating patterns.
Clearly, we all have to decide how we tackle this disease, but I would urge you to track both elements. Trust me, when I saw my numbers lower into ranges for "good control", then "excellent control", then "non-diabetc", I can't express how inspiring that was. Those things really helped me find the additional willpower to ignore puddings at dinner parties, carb-tastic finger buffets stocked with vol au vents, crustinni and the like. I even sat piously through Thanksgiving, Christmas, New year, birthday dinner parties and didn't bat an eyelid, because I knew what I was doing was resting my body from the strain it had failed to cope with, and give it the best chance of recovery.
My signature gives all my HbA1cs since diagnosis. Who knows how long I can stay in the non-diabetic ranges, but I'd like to think I'm giving it my best shot.
Good luck with what you're doing, but please give home testing some consideration. If you only test 3 times a day (probably fasting and before and after your "proper" meal), that's only 2 tubs of strips a month. For the Codefree strips that equates to between £12 and £14 a month (depending how many strips you buy at a time), but you're probably saving that on the food you're not buying?