I looked at diet doctor but it looked American? Does it have UK food & measurements?
I wasn't sure if I should do low carb/high fat or low carb/low fat?
Thank you for your help x
Go for low carb, high fat. Fat isn't the culprit, and it'll actually help you with your bloodsugars.
There's 3 macro-nutrients: Fat, Protein and Carbohydrate. If you cut one, you up the others, so you don't become deficient in the micro nutrients (vitamins, minerals). Protein can up your bloodsugars some, though nothing as dramatic as what carbs do. So just keep those at moderate levels, and pay extra attention to upping fats and cutting carbs. Practically all carbs turn to glucose once ingested, after all. But fats? They don't do anything at all, not even a blip, when it comes to raising bloodsugars. Better yet, if you do have some carbs with something fatty, it'll slow down the uptake, so you don't have as hard a spike as you could have had. So if you go for strawberries, always have some unsweetened (or with stevia or something) at hand...!
I don't know if you have weight you want to lose (10% of T2's are slim, and have never been overweight), ut if you are, it is a symptom of prediabetes and T2... Because you're insensitive to your own insulin you end up not burning the glucose in your blood, but storing it in fat cells. That's why the bulk of us start out big. The good news: low carb, high fat'll fix that too. The weight'll drop off, pretty much. For some it goes quiker than others, but it happens. (Lost 50 pounds, and eat bacon twice a day
Excellent cholesterol too.)
The quick guide to low carbing: Cut bread, potatoes, pasta, cereals/muesli/oats/porridge/weetabix, rice and most fruits from your diet. Underground veggies or starchy ones like beans too. They'll all raise bloodsugars, which you could (and should) check with a meter. Because don't take the word from a random stranger on the internet, and your meter'll not lie or try to sell you anything, haha. (Test before a meal and 2 hours after. if you go up more than 2.0 mmol/l, the meal was carbier than you could process. It's easy to remember, as you're a T2, and it's all 2's, all the way.) Anyway... What's safe to eat, bloodsugar-wise? Meat, fish, poultry, above-ground veggies/leafy greens, berries, tomatoes, avocado, starfruit, olives, extra dark chocolate (85% and up) cheese, butter, full fat greek yoghurt, nuts, eggs, that sort of thing. I'm not a kitchen princess, so I tend to keep my meals simple...
So you could eat, without issue:
Scrambled eggs with bacon, cheese, mushrooms, tomato, maybe some high meat content sausages?
Eggs with ham, bacon and cheese
Omelet with spinach and/or smoked salmon
Omelet with cream, cinnamon, with some berries and coconut shavings
Full fat Greek yoghurt with nuts and berries
Leafy green salad with a can of tuna (oil, not brine!), mayonaise, capers, olives and avocado
Leafy green salad with (warmed goat's) cheese and bacon, maybe a nice vinaigrette?
Meat, fish or poultry with veggies. I usually go for cauliflower rice or broccoli rice, with cheese and bacon to bulk it up. Never the same meal twice in a row because of various herbs/spices.
Snacks? Pork scratchings, cheese, olives, extra dark chocolate, nuts.
But there's a world of fantastic meals out there I would absolutely botch in my kitchen, but you could do quite amazing at, who knows.
Hope this helps,
Jo