Personally I have always loved fruit. Before I was diagnosed with diabetes I ate 3-5 servings of fruit, on some days even more.

I've always eaten a minimum of at least 3 servings of vegetables a day.

I've almost always eaten protein at least 2 meals a day.
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Before being diagnosed as diabetic, I ate rice 2-3 meals a day as my meal. Everything other than the rice was in the quantities of condiments.

So when I quit carbs cold turkey. It was a shock to my system.
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I ate zero fruit for 5 months. After I was diagnosed with diabetes.

After 5 months I was only able to eat zero to 1 serving of fruit a day as a meal exchange. I could not handle the carbs.

Now that I am doing Jardiance, I'm trying to see how many servings of fruit I can handle, depending on my numbers.

3 servings most days... with no additional carbs, seems safe for me.

I hate most vegetables and could care less about fruit and neither have one single thing to do with "how much food you put in your mouth"

While it's true if you are going to OVEREAT you are better off overeating greens, non-starchy veggies, low GI fruit and low fat everything

But that is about "calories in"

A glass of skim milk (8oz) is about 86 calories and 12 carbs
A glass of whole milk 3.5% (8oz) is 149 calories and 12 carbs
A glass of 10% cream (8oz) is 315 calories and 10 carbs

So if "weight loss" is your concern then you can drink 1 glass of 10% or 2 glasses of whole milk or almost 4 glasses of skim milk and still only consume about 300 calories (about 15% of total daily calories)

From a diabetic point of view a glass of 10% will have less effect on Blood Sugar then the same glass filled with skim

So purely for weight loss, it's about total calories in and if you follow the 2000 calories a day a given meal should max out at maybe 500 calories (if you need a snack) or 600-650 if you "only eat your meals"

How you spend that "allowance" could be on a bushel of veggies or a single chocolate chip muffin

The muffin won't hurt you unless you can't stop eating until your next meal after consuming it All By Itself in place of a meal

You just have to "set a limit" and not exceed total calories and the weight will come off because it IS "DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO WHAT YOU PUT IN YOUR MOUTH"

If you are trying and can't lose weight it's because you are still eating "too much of everything" for YOUR Metabolism to handle and what someone else can/can not eat does not apply to You...