Every journey begins with a small step ...

It's a Chinese proverb - 'A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step'.
You are on your journey @Ultramum and you will get to your destination. One step at a time.

One foot in front of the other and on you go, downwards of course.

When diagnosed T2 my fasting blood glucose level was 13.1. Five weeks later it had dropped to 9.8. Gradually it dropped further to 8, 7 and is now after 4 months it is around 6.2. I did this by firstly dropping all the food with lots of sugar in it (breakfast cereals, orange juice) and then reducing foods with a lot of carbohydrates (bread, potatoes, rice, pasta etc).

This has also allowed me to reduce a lot of weight (7Kg). If you change your diet then good things will happen and quite quickly too.