I have cut out all the fatty foods like crisps, chocolate, fried food and tbh I have not missed any of them, have invested in a George Foreman to reduce the fats on main meals.
I'm a bit worried about you cutting out fats? Why?
That might be where you're going wrong... There's three macro nutrients: Carbs, Fat and Protein. The one we as T2's can't process is carbs. Those turn to glucose once ingested and makes our BG skyrocket. Fat, believe it or not, is your friend. The diet's not called Low Carb High Fat for nothing, after all. Fat slows down the uptake of any carbs you do ingest, making for less of a peak. I eat bacon once or twice a day, loads of cheese, a few squares of extra dark chocolate.... And still lost 25 kilo's, have excellent cholesterol levels (which I didn't have before), and am solidly in the non-diabetic range. If you dial down the carbs, you'll need to dial up the other macro-nutrients. To feel full, AND because you'll need the vitamins and minerals that come with them. I don't know if I'm repeating myself here so forgive me if I am, but meals could look like this, and note they're quite fatty:
Crisps are carby foods - to be avoided, chocolate, you can have the very dark ones, high cocoa low carb, fried foods - they are fine, tuck in, as long as they are not things such as potatoes. The George Foreman grill I bought was useless as it dried up all the food before it was cooked - I was wrapping it in foil to try to keep the meat moist.
Doctors an dieticians are usually a bit behind the times, going with the EatWell plate still... For cutting edge stuff, you'll want to read Dr. Jason Fung and the Dietdoctor.com website. EatWell is fine if you're healthy, but not if you're a T2, who can't process carbs out again. Like I said, practically all carbs are turned into glucose. That is, glucose is sugar, that goes straight into your bloodstream. It sands away at your veins, eyes, kidneys etc, so you want to keep your bloodsugar in the non-diabetic range (between 4.5 and 8.5-ish). Not to mention some of it being stored as fat on your liver, and making things that much worse. To lower bloodsugars, you lower your carb intake. That's all carbs. Sugar is a carb, yes, but so are starches.
That is very helpful indeed, thanks at least I know why I can eat and cannot eat, if possible could you add what to eat and what not to eat as this will give me even more scope as to prepare meals.
There's a load of recepies on dietdoctor.com , all of them low carb. That should help. Milk has lactose in it, which are milksugars. So if you do use it, use full fat, not the skimmed kind. As for sweeteners, it depends... Most would vote no on those. And considering I had them a lot and they killed off all my gut-bacteria, causing serious pain and bleeding before discovering what the problem was, and I'm still healing quite a while later, well... Not a fan of sweeteners. But that's up to you.
