Good morning
@garyclark82 ,
Good questions, and good start you're making. But I can see why you're hungry... There's three macro nutrients, and you're cutting out a lot of 2 of them... Better up the fats. That should keep you satisfied and give you something to run on, with carbs out of the mix. Just protein isn't going to cut it.
As for your questions, it's quite sustainable long term, once you find out what works for you. Your current diet isn't, as you're hungry all the time, but that's quite fixable! And I have to agree with the others, snacks aren't really that good of an idea, what with your pancreas needing as many breaks as it can get, and every time you eat something it has to shift gears again. If you do want to snack though, hard cheeses, pork scratchings, cold cuts/sausages, coffee with cream, or extra dark chocolate (Lindt's is great, and from what I hear, Aldi's Moser Roth is good too.). And maybe not think in terms of using carbs here and there... You don't actually need carbs to live, and you can't exactly bank them. If you'd had a meter, you would've already seen that if you have, say, 10 grams of carbs in the morning your blood sugars would react one way, and if you have 60 over lunch, you'd likely spike your blood sugars for a while. So do get yourself a meter with cheap strips, as you're going to need a LOT of them before you know exactly what foods agree with you and which don't.
Now, looking at your current diet, I see two things: Your carb count is well below what's been alotted, so yay, you! And secondly, the low fat stint... Fats aren't a diabetic's enemy, they're just about our best friend, second only to our meter.
I know, it takes a bit of getting used to the idea after the low fat mantra's of the past decades, but.... It does make a difference in your hunger, and it'll give you something to burn for energy. So you might want to tweak your diet.
Breakfast: 2 sausages (Be Good To Yourself although I'm hoping to get to my local butcher), 2 egg cheese omelette and a coffee.
You might want to up the eggs. Maybe have 4 rather than two, add a little more (full fat!) cheese. You can toss in salmon, bacon, ham, that sort of thing, to bulk it up further. Or some chopped above ground veggies, spinach and such... Maybe throw some heavy cream into your coffee, makes it more filling and quite tasty!
Lunch: Mixed salad with chicken breast, a tablespoon of 70% reduced fat salad cream followed by some berries/unsweetened yoghurt
The tablespoon of reduced fat salad cream is the biggest red fag of the entire meal. You might want to go for proper mayo, (careful, some brands have put sugar in for heaven knows what reason), or olive oil and apple cider vinegar of a nice vinaigrette. You might also want to add some grated cheese, bacon etc to bulk it up further. Berries are fine, they're the lowest carb fruit out there, and the yoghurt should preferably full fat greek. Again, it's more filling and low carb.
Dinner: Aldi Slim Well Chicken Saag, half a packet of cauliflower rice.
I have absolutely no idea what Saag is, but the nutritional info says it's one gram of carbs per 100, so yay. It's low fat again though, so don't know how filling it is with just half a packet of cauliflower rice. (Good on you for using that though, good stuff!). If you can, or need to, you might want to bulk that up too some. I don't know whether it'd taste good with grated cheese or with a little butter tossed in, because I have no clue what it actually is, but you're the best judge of that.
Snack: Fruit, a cheese oatcake, maybe (just maybe) a couple of squares of dark chocolate.
...Yeah. The one thing you're most tentative about is the thing most likely to not spike you. Just a few squares of extra dark sounds fine to me, so enjoy!
What fruits are you eating? Like I said, berries are the best thing for a T2. An average apple, for instance, contains 20 grams of sugar/carbs. A decent sides banana about 30+.
One slice of pineapple over 20 as well... So basically, it all depends on what kind of fruit you're having. (And again, a meter would've warned you off the big hitters if you'd had one. See how useful it can be?). I can't tell how many carbs are in the oat cakes, but I personally wouldn't touch anything with oats with a 10 ft pole. For you, however, they might be just fine, as your HbA1c is lower than mine was at diagnosis and your insulin resistance at this point, is most likely nowhere near as bad as mine. Again, something your meter'd be able to tell you. Testing around meals can be very, very informative. (before you begin and 2 hours after the first bite. You're aiming for a rise of no more than 2.0 mmol/l)
Anyway, I hope this helps a little in solving the hunger issue. If you've got that licked, then yeah, you won't have any trouble keeping this diet up ad infinitum, and you should be feeling a lot better soon.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog-entry/the-nutritional-thingy.2330/ might help a little when it comes to adding some variety. But all in all... Meat, fish, poultry, most dairy and eggs are a free-for-all, and you can add on stuff from there.
Good luck!
Jo