Hello Maria welcome e to the forum. It does come as a shock when your first told, especially when you’re hardly given any advise.
Firstly please don’t panic, Diabetes is a condition that can be managed very well once you have the right info, exersize helps a lot too.
How did you come to be diagnosed.
Now you must eat, none of us on here starve ourselves nor do we eat bland uninteresting food.
Just to give you a few ideas to get you started.
We usually have no problems with protein or good fats, if you eat meat, all meat is fine as are high meat content sausages and burgers, eggs cooked anyway you like, cheese, butter, cream, mushrooms, veg that grows above ground, some nuts are lowish in carbohydrates , we often tolerate berries better than fruit that originated in a warmer climate , their is no need to throw away your frying pan.
Try to cut down on the following and untill you find substitutes you like fill up on veg that grows above ground or other low carb things/snacks.
Basically It’s carbohydrates our bodies can’t handle to well esp the fastacting ones, potatoes esp mashed,rice, pasta, Bread esp white, things made with white flour , grapes are little sugar bombs, fruit juice , breakfast cereals.
If you head on over to this thread you can see what we eat,
what-did-you-eat-yesterday
When your ready to do some reading up
Head on over to this forum and take you time as their is a lot to go through , scroll down to the T2 section
useful-links-for-people-new-to-diabetes .
I suggest you start with
Jennifer’s advise.
Maggie Davies letter.
Test review adjust by Alan S
And think about getting the book called Type 2 Diabetes the first year by Gretchen Becker who has written a month by month very informative book about her first year with T2 diabetes.
Their is a lot more their that you may wish to read.
Another good thing to do is, ask us as many questions as you need to , we will do our best to help
