New and scared

Low carbs, low fat is the diet that evidently has not been effective over the last 30-40 years...

Do understand that carbs AND proteins stimulate insulin release. So fats is the safer bet to reduce circulating insulin level.

You may also want to research on intermittent fasting...

Hi. It's not possible for us to diagnose what your specific condition is, but insulin resistance where muscles in the body are affected by fat deposits does not normally cause symptoms other than the normal diabetic ones due to high blood sugar. You certainly need to keep the carbs was down as you have been told. Fat is not normally a problem for us but I wonder whether your GP has a specific reason for advising you to have low fat other than the usual government mantra? Any suspected gall bladder issues would need a low fat diet for example. I'm sure your GP needs to do an Hba1C test if he hasn't already done so as it has it's own value in addition to the GTT in checking the level of diabetes. Do keep testing 2 hours after typical meals which is more important than a fasting test.

Fat doesn't make you fat. Carbs do. Or carbs plus fat. Well, for many of us type 2s, anyway. I lost quite s bit of weight by cutting carbs to less than 50g a day and eating more natural fat (ie no veg/seed oil).

You might try cutting out wheat, other grains and fruit since they have a lot of carbs. You should cut out rice and starchy veg (e.g potatoes) as well. Natural fat is fine, such as butter, cheese, other full fat dairy, meat, oily fish, etc. The fats to avoid are trans-fats in processed foods and veg/seed oils, which are not natural. Avocado and good quality olive oil are fine. The potential problem with olive oil is that a lot of it in regular stores is adulterated with cheap veg/seed oils.