Hi!
I have reduced carbs.. along with everything else (apart from fruit). That's a how diets work. Obviously depending on a specific diet plan the ratios can change. In lchf case fat goes up to compensate for carbs going down. My plan is to lose weight and lower blood sugar (ok keep it low now). The 5:2 element is about weight loss. I really do believe that non fasting days immediately after fasting days show lower blood sugar than 3 days after my last fasting day. Self testing is about reducing and controlling blood sugar. Which I do.
It seems your maintaining your blood sugar well and winning the fight at the moment as well and doing it eating a varied diet. So like me you're doing what works. You're not pushing your luck in terms of what you eat and drink if you're proactive and know what the impact of that food and drink is on your blood sugar. If that starts to head up, then it's time to reassess (for me, not necessarily you!). I'm simply not prepared to live in fear of what may happen. You could have 20 years of your diet and still end up having to inject insulin into your eyeball to survive, so could I! But by testing ourselves and staying proactive we'll have the opportunity to take avoiding action. I'm happy to take that action when my meter tells me to rather than pre-empt it.
In life, we each are continually running risk/benefit analysis on the decisions we make, and there will always be a spectrum of acceptability relating to both risk and reward. Life, in general, is about compromise, and I have, thus far, found a balance that suits me. Your preferred position on the spectrum is clearly different. That's your right, as we each will live with the consequences of our own actions.
Where I believe many on this forum differ from you is that our personal experience, when eating carb loaded foods, differs from yours. My experiences have altered as my D experience and my weight/bloods moderated, as I imagine have yours. Many newly diagnosed T2s who use this forum find that the standard NHS Guidelines for dietary management of T2 find that utilising the recommended eating patterns simply doesn't reduce their blood scores. Indeed, some have actually found their blood scores increasing following a period of following the standard NHS Guidelines. That leads many to believe they should avoid carbs.
You state that using LCHF means fat consumption goes up. For me, initially, it didn't. I wanted to lose weight, so whilst I ensured I didn't consume any low fat products (unless there was no alternative, and bearing in mind I was overseas in my early days, this was someteimes the case), I didn't go all out to eat fat. That simply didn't float my boat. Once I achieved a slight physical figure and low BMI I realised I couldn't continue eating exactly as I had been doing on the early part of my journey, because I was continuing to lose weight, so I had to find a way of balancing my body scales not to lose further weight, but to maintain my bloods in the region I wanted. Of course, for many people maintaining their bloods in the low 30s might seem like going too far, but again, that is my choice, in the light of knowledge. In order to balance my body scales I have increased my consumption of both fat and carbs in an incremental way, until I reached a balance point. It is well documented that others have similar balancing experience to my own.
If you find your GP specialises in Diabetes and actually has a significant insight into the condition, and the variances between the many variants of T2, never mind the whole T1 puzzle, then you are very fortunate. My surgery has a GP who is responsible for Diabetes, as we do for other chronic and common conditions like asthma, mental health, obstetrics and pain, but my experience is simply that this means that GP is the go-to person in the practise, rather than that he/she actually possesses a significant level of expertise. Probably, in my surgery the exceptions to that sweeping generalisation is both obstetrics and minor surgery, where we are fortunate enough to have GPs with higher qualifications in both specialisms and who continue to work in hospital part time in each specialism.
Again, I pass on my best wishes, but might urge you to temper some of your hard and fast statements, even about what works for you. This condition is one where our bodies ability to cope can change over time, and really it is a watching brief, where ongoing vigilance is required, however we each like to express that (in my view) fact.