Toddle on over here if you like, we have a support thread going.
In short:
Potatoes, pasta, rice, noodles (I think - must check) are free, as are meat and fish.
Fresh and frozen fruit, and most vegetables, are super-free.
Each meal is supposed to include 1/3 super-free food.
You get a healthy extra A and a B every day, examples of A include 28g cheese or 250ml milk, Bs include two slices of bread or four Ryvita.
Everything else is syns, I reckon they work out at about 20 calories each, you can have 5 to 15.
I'm finding it very family-friendly, with a fussy eating 6yo, as you can have plenty of carbs and protein. DH is following a very approximate version of it, just not snacking as much as usual and eating what he's given for dinner (which is lower fat than we're used to) and has also lost weight.
I THINK it will be quite easy to transition to normal healthy eating once I've lost as much weight as I want to as well, given that it IS just that, but a low calorie version. Oh, and success - 9.5lb down in four weeks. I'm going over my syns almost every day, but I'm also making my Wii Fit work for its living at long last.