Type 2 Diabetes, which is what you got diagnosed with, is 100% caused by what you eat and is 100% reversible. If you do not eat any sugar, artificial sweeteners or carbohydrates for 3 months, your diabetes will completely go away and it will not come back as long as you stay on the diet. So no sugar, no sweeteners of any kind, no bread, no chips, no grains and no alcohol.

For your heart, do not eat any preservatives in food, processed meats or seed oils. Your heart damage will not heal but you should still do this. The biggest risk factor correlated with having a heart attack is if you've previously had a heart attack, so since you are in the high risk category I would definitely eat a heart healthy diet.

What you can eat is fresh fruit (not juice), fresh vegetables including potatoes and fresh or frozen beef, fish and venison. You can eat nuts. The only oils you can eat are Olive Oil, Avocado Oil, Coconut Oil, Butter and Tallow.

You can't eat at any restaurants, you can't eat any processed or prepackaged food because they aren't going to be compliant with your diet.

You should also walk 1 mile every day or do 2 miles every other day.

I basically eat like this and I lost 100 lbs. For breakfast I just have unsweetened tea or coffee. For lunch I have fruit or nuts, today I'm having Pineapple but sometimes it's an apple, an avocado, berries or nuts. Then for dinner salmon, baked potato and broccoli. I make a lot of soups, chilis and "burrito" bowls where it's just beans and things you would put in a burrito but no tortilla and it's in a bowl. I never had diabetes or even pre-diabetes because I never ate sugar but if you eat like this your diabetes will go into remission and you can get off the medication. You should try and get your diabetes in remission because the medication only treats some symptoms and does not reduce your all cause mortality where eating healthy and walking will.