Hey don't go just yet...i'll try my best to explain then if you like the sound of it you may just wanna find a class and get the books etc!
I'll try to explain the basic method as not too clued up on extra easy, okay so you have red and green day, each day you can decide if it will be red or green, but as long as you have chosen which day your on you have to stick to that for the rest of the day.
Example, Monday a green day...continue green the rest of the day. Tuesday if you wanna go red you can or stick green and follow that thro to end of day!
So on each day you can have super free foods (which means free on both green and red) this includes eggs, vegetables and fruit and more.
On a green day you have all your free foods which are things like pasta, potatos and rice.
On a red day the free foods are meat, lean cuts and fish.
So on a green day you can eat whatever green free foods and superfree foods, as much as you like (obviously there are some exlusions and ways of cooking which are explained in the books).
On a red day you have red free foods and superfree foods.
On top of that you have healthy extra's A and B, a is basically dairy stuff and B is fibre stuff.
Whichever day you are following you have to have 1 or 2 a's and 2 b's......for example an A could milk or cheese, and a B could be bread or cereal.
And on top of all that you have syns, these can be used for chocolate, crisps...or anything that isn't free basically...again you will need the books to understand HOW much of these you can have.
I hope that may have explained it a little better for you, i'd hate for you to go away not really knowing about it cos i think the diet is fab, i have done atkins type diets before and have actually damaged my kidneys, altho not proven the diet caused it my dr thought there was a high chance a high protein diet affected them.
I'm not saying that to put you off any diet, ANY diet can work for people, it's more a mind over matter thing i believe but i do love sw cos it focuses on healthy eating and you don't skip any food group out (which has got to be the healthiest and most realistic eating plan in my opinion).
A quicker way of describing it may be....
Free foods...........as much as you like
Healthy Extra A....1 or 2 a day
Healthy Extra B.....2 a day
Syns..............between 5 and 15
Hope this helps and hasn't confused you even more!