I eat reasonable portions of meat, not excessively large ones. Most of your calories on a ketogenic diet come from fat, not protein, both dietary fat and fat your body burns off if you're also losing weight at the same time.

I would also rather live 4 less years and be healthy til the end of my lifespan, than live 4 extra years post-foot-amputation and on dialysis because of complications from diabetes. My father was also a T2 diabetic, tried to follow the ADA recommended diet, but still wound up insulin-dependent and eventually on dialysis before his death. I do not plan to follow in his footsteps.

I feel better on this way of eating than I have at any point in my life. My body has never metabolized carbs well. When I was younger, I was reactive-hypoglycemic, meaning that eating too many carbs would actually cause my body to over-respond with insulin, causing my blood sugar to plummet. I blacked out multiple times in high school from low blood sugar. Eating carbs (other than green veggies of course) is not for me.