Yes eating a low carb, high fat diet is very pleasant. I too was a heavy carb eater pre diagnosis, with bread and potatoes being my mainstay. I always ate wholemeal options and skin on tattties whenever possible and I could not imagine a life without these foods, but 7 months down the line and I don't eat bread at all and just have a very small portion of potato occasionally. I do eat very well though.... my breakfast this morning was a 2 egg mushroom, onion and cheese omelette with a large side salad of lettuce and rocket, 3 cherry tomatoes, cucumber and avocado and a coffee with cream. That pretty much sets me up for the day and I just have a chunk of cheese or some nuts at lunchtime and then meat or fish with lots of veggies on an evening and creamy Greek yoghurt with a few fresh raspberries. I often cook my green veggies in butter and or serve them with cream cheese. If you are significantly reducing your carbohydrate intake, you need to get your energy from another source. If you need to lose weight, then your body will burn it's own body stores, but since you say that you don't really need to lose any weight, then increasing the fat in your diet will provide that alternative source of energy.
I make ratatouille with a mass of really good olive oil, onions, courgette, aubergine and tomatoes and have it with good quality burgers, or steak or high meat content sausages. Cauliflower cheese is another favourite a la
@Drummer where you just undercook a head of cauli, drain and coat with cream cheese and then sprinkle grated cheese over the top and brown in the oven or under the grill..... thereby not using milk and thickening agents like flour which all increase the carb content.
Tonight I will be having salmon fillets pan fried in butter with aubergine (to soak up the surplus cooking fat) spinach sweated in butter with a dollop of cream cheese mixed in before serving and broccoli with a very small portion of sweet potato... I cook a whole sweet potato and the reheat the leftovers for meals later in the week. Same if I am having potatoes. I cook a pan full and then reheat the leftovers, either by slicing and pan frying or mashing with butter and cream cheese and perhaps some chives. There is a school of thought that the cooling and reheating process causes the starchy carbs in potatoes and pasta to become less easily digested and therefore spike you less. I am not sure this bears out in my case but some people say their BG test meter upholds the theory.
Good luck bringing your BG down through diet. I was a chocaholic and sugar addict before diagnosis and I very rarely crave these things now. Surprisingly the only thing I miss about bread is the convenience of it.... ie sandwiches for a quick snack or something to soak up the yolk of a dippy egg, or bulk out a bowl of soup...... and the fibre, which my bowel misses and I have to take a psyllium and chia seed supplement to help things along.
