Also I have decided to stop my Metformin and monitor my bloods to see what happens if they increase then I will start them again.
If it was me, I would keep taking the Metformin
unless you get side effects until you have lost as much weight as you wish too. Metformin reduces insulin resistance, so results in your body creating less insulin (assuming reasonable BG levels), low levels of insulin makes it a
lot easier for your body to burn fat.
Also a lot of the complications (stoke/heart) from T2 are due to high levels of insulin, you can can't tell without a test of insulin level if you have sorted about all your issues with insulin resistance.
Remember that Metformin takes a few weeks to work, and therefore I assume it takes a few weeks until all benefits stop, so you need to check for the trend of your BG levels, not just a few readings. (For example graph your fasting BG and see if stopping Metformin changes the slope of the graph.)
And well done, I hope my tests results are as good as yours when I have my 8 week tests.
PS, Exercise can help with cholesterol. Also I think trigs can be increased by fruit sugar without the fruit sugar putting up your BG, so check how much fruit you are eating.