I'm new! And confused!

[NobleLocks]

Hi everyone,
I'm new to this: have around 4 stone to loose.
I don't have time to go to meetings, so I bought a friends starter pack off her sister.

I get that I'm allowed free food, but how do a+b foods work? Also how does alcohol factor?
I'm aiming for 5 sins a day

TIA

[NobleLocks]

Thank you all

[frikadela01]

My advice Is go to the meeting and get the new starters talk If you've never done it. You don't hAve to carry on going but it gives you a good basis. For example I don't see why you're are only having 5 syns a day. You can have between 5 and 15. I regularly had 15 and lost stone.

[PopcornFrenzy]

As you see the weight coming off, that's enough inspiration for me, been doing this 3 weeks and I'm already 9lbs lighter.

[NobleLocks]

How on earth do you get will power to stick to it?

[HappyHippyChick]

There is a list here

[tabulahrasa]

Sorry, speed is the same as superfree...they tweaked the plan a bit a few months ago.

[NobleLocks]

Thank you, I shall do this. What is speed?

[tabulahrasa]

You get paper diaries, or there's the website...but you'd only get access to them if you joined.

I don't often keep a food diary now as I've been doing it a while, so if I do, I literally just write it somewhere. With a list under all the headings, free, speed, a, b and syns.

[NobleLocks]

Thank you all.
Where do you log this? In a diary or in a app?

[iklboo]

Sorry! Sent too soon.

You're allowed one A and one B per day and between 5 & 15 syns.

[tabulahrasa]

With free foods...your plate/portion/days food should be one third speed or superfree depending on how old your book is.

You have one healthy extra A and one healthy extra B choice a day.

Anything other than free foods or the measured healthy extra portions is synned, including alcohol.

[iklboo]

A foods (dairy basically) is for your calcium.

B foods are for additional fibre.

Alcohol is a syn so you've got to count it in your syns.