I had many illnesses pre-Paleo, including on the verge of Type 2 diabetes. See my story in "Success Stories".

First big thing: why so low fat and high carb and high protein?! For type 2 diabetes you would definitely benefit from a low carb, moderate protein (20-30%), high fat food plan. I was ketogenic for a long time and now I've raised my carbs to about 10% of my food. Fat is my most important macro if I want to stay feeling great and work towards healing a severely disordered metabolism. I understand that you are very active but you will still be active and healthy on 10-20% carbs.

I would highly recommend giving up wheat completely. Best thing I ever did and I will never go back to eating it ever.

50% fat (with lots of natural saturated fats) is a BARE minimum imo. With type 2 diabetes I would say even higher, such as 60-70%. Low fat is about the worst thing you can be doing for your health situation.

I had many illnesses pre-Paleo, including on the verge of Type 2 diabetes. See my story in "Success Stories".

First big thing: why so low fat and high carb and high protein?! For type 2 diabetes you would definitely benefit from a low carb, moderate protein (20-30%), high fat food plan. I was ketogenic for a long time and now I've raised my carbs to about 10% of my food. Fat is my most important macro if I want to stay feeling great and work towards healing a severely disordered metabolism. I understand that you are very active but you will still be active and healthy on 10-20% carbs.

I would highly recommend giving up wheat completely. Best thing I ever did and I will never go back to eating it ever.

50% fat (with lots of natural saturated fats) is a BARE minimum imo. With type 2 diabetes I would say even higher, such as 60-70%. Low fat is about the worst thing you can be doing for your health situation.

Thanks for the recommendations

I have followed the advice of a dietitian who designed my macros and helped me lose all my weight. Honestly I didn't ask why she suggested what she did, it worked. The carbs as I understood it was to keep me fueled for the long cycling trips, but now that I am strength training much more and really don't eat wheat all that often I think I would feel better eating paleo.

Really curious about endurance activities while following paleo.

You will find most of us here very in favour of a healthy level of fat. Doctors, dieticians, nutritionists are mostly following SAD recommendations and many of us here followed the "fat is bad" advice for years and destroyed our health because of it. I hope that you decide to look beyond the advice of the dietician. Weight loss is not the only measure of health, and keeping it off long term, with a disordered metabolism, is the hard part. The pinned "Recommended Reading" is a great place to get started for more information.

You're quite lucky to have lost weight as a diabetic on that macro spread, in my opinion. I'd venture to guess that it's from the sheer volume of exercising you do, as that amount burns off the sugar very quickly and has insulin-sensitizing effects. Otherwise, that amount of carbs and protein would result in quite a lot of circulating insulin and subsequent increases in insulin resistance. I think that with that amount of exercising, you could reverse your Diabetic state entirely (or long-term remission or whatever the medical industry uses for instance where a chronic disease is reversed, but they don't want to say "cured"), if you adjusted your diet to something that didn't put so much strain on your pancreas.

I recommend checking out Dr. Peter Attia's personal experience with insulin resistance and a LC/HF Keto diet (it's got good info on why he did it, and its affects not only on his insulin resistance, but also on his athletic performance, which is intense to the extreme):
http://eatingacademy.com/my-personal-nutrition-journey

Aside from that, I generally recommend the following macro spread:

Protein - about 1g/lb of lean body mass. With the amount you do, you might want to go a little higher, to help counter the protein-metabolizing effects of the long bike rides, especially on ride day and the day or two after. You need enough to maintain/build muscle, but not so much that it gets stored and used for fuel (protein gets turned to sugar when used for fuel, which defeats the purpose of low carb, moderate protein, high fat).

Fat - no less than .45g/lb of total body weight, though I agree with Akima to favor fat over carbs in general. T2D is caused by the body's inability to deal with the amount of insulin in the body, so you want to minimize the amount of insulin required to handle your food input. Personally, I set my carbs and protein to where I want/need them, then fill the rest in with fat.

Carbs - under 100g most days (long ride days, you might be able to get away with more, especially if dealing with hills and headwinds, but still try to keep fat as your favored fuel source). Get your carbs from non-starchy vegetables and low-GI fruits (berries, etc). These have a lot of fiber (good for the gut) and nutrients. Except for fiber (which isn't actually digested, but fermented by our gut flora and/or used to bulk up fecal matter), carbs are carbs are carbs. It all ultimately turns to sugar, and the sugar goes to the bloodstream. With impaired insulin sensitivity, your blood sugar is more likely to get to the level of damage, and at that point, it doesn't matter if it goes to 300 for 20 minutes or 180 for 4 hours -- it's still doing damage and still taxing your already-strained pancreas.

Caloric intake - Look for a TDEE calculator and figure out your calories needed to maintain and use that number as your guide. I don't know your age, but from the rest of the information I put in, you could probably go up to around 3000 calories or so and still maintain. This will allow you to slowly build muscle and lower body fat, while properly fueling your workouts. Alternatively, if you want to lose body fat a little faster, then drop your intake by about 200 calories a day. Conversely, if you want to actively gain muscle, increase your intake by about 200 calories a day.

(My experience is with polycystic ovarian syndrome with insulin resistance, a cousin of type 2 diabetes that can lead to "full-blown" type 2 diabetes if not carefully and sternly dealt with.)

There are a ton of studies and clinical info about eating fat that would help - but I found my friends always continuing to tell me I was killing myself with all the fat I eat.
I then offer to share my blood tests and hormone tests which I am happy to put money that they are significantly better than anyone around me.

Found it interesting that now people are sending me the article that time magazine did an article on how good butter is for you.
http://time.com/2863227/ending-the-war-on-fat/?pcd=hp-magmod

Know that the majority of vitamins are fat soluble and hormones are created when fat and cholesterol are in adequate levels in the body

(typing while drinking butter in my coffee right now) lol.