There are some caveats.

Beef and Broccoli is good if you prepare it at home with mostly beef and broccoli. But when I had it at our local Chinese restaurant it spiked my blood sugar. So there was probably corn starch and other ingredients that had carbs (likely sugar too).

Eating fatty steak can help you loose weight IF you don't combine it with a lot of carbs. Protein only raises insulin very modestly by itself. But if eaten along with high carbs then the carbs spike the insulin and the meat becomes an additive effect to the carbs.

Back injuries suck. Been there, done that.

The insta-pot or instant pot does wonders for cheap, fatty cuts of meat. Here in the first picture is my low carb supper from a couple nights ago. Looks like a really nice T-bone steak. It came off the discount meat rack at Wal-Mart. Well as good as it looks it was at best a fair piece of meat. Wife doesn't like to buy meat at Wal-Mart but it was half price so....... But I only ended up eating about half of it because of the connective tissue and just not great meat. I finished up that meal with 4 meat sticks to get enough fat/meat.

But the second picture was the remains of the steak after it was chunked up an put in the insta-pot for lunch the next day (there was twice that much but it was hot so started out with small bowl - I ate it all). Delicious. If a steak is excellent, I really like steak. But I rarely eat it because unless it is excellent I would rather have it as hamburger or stew meat. That T-bone, for me at least, was far superior eating chunked up, mixed with a few veggies and cooked in the intsta-pot. They say as we get older we have less stomach acid and meats become harder for us to digest. I think that is true in my case. The yellow muffin like thing is not actually corn bread, but instead made out of coconut flour in the microwave. It actually tastes pretty close to corn bread but is low carb and is super easy to make single serving in the microwave. Wife's first try and it turned out good.

The third picture was last nights low carb supper.

Here is one of Dr Jason Fung's presentations (The Two Big Lies of Type II Diabetes) where he really covers the type II diabetes issues really well. It is an older video and some of his later ones cover later research but we watched this one last night and it covers about all aspects of the topic very well. Some of the things he hypothesized have had more recent research showing they are true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLoaVNQ3rc

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