What is a SYNS?
‘Syns refers to the synergy between Free Foods, Healthy Extras and Syns, and it’s these components that work together to make Food Optimising effective. ‘
How many calories is 15 SYNS?
You can set yourself between 5 and 15 syns a day depending on how quickly you want to lose weight or how much you have to go until your target. There’s about 20 calories in a syn, which equals 4 for a double gin and slimline tonic or 5.5 for a packet of Quavers.
What are SYNS in weight loss?
Syns are short for synergy as the Free Foods, Healthy Extras and Syns all add up to effective weight loss. The programme encourages dieters to swap high-fat foods for low-fat foods that are naturally filling.
Is it OK to have 15 SYNS a day?
Dieters following the company’s healthy eating plan are allowed a maximum of 15 Syns per day, minor transgressions into the realm of the calorific that can be consumed as part of a balanced regime primarily based around “Free Foods” like fruit and vegetables, eggs, grains and low-fat dairy products.
How do you calculate SYNS?
See, as a general rule of thumb, 20 calories = 1 syn. So 100 calories = 5 syns, 200 calories = 10 syns, and so on.
How many SYNS do I get?
We’ve added a Healthy Extra ‘a’ and ‘b’ choice each day (feel free to enjoy your second Healthy Extra ‘a’ choice however you choose). All food that isn’t Free has a Syn value, and you choose how you’ll spend your Syns allowance (usually up to 15 Syns) each day.
How do I work out SYNS?
Are bananas free on slimming world?
Fruits like bananas are slighter higher in energy than say strawberries or melon, and are therefore slighter higher in calories gram for gram – so they’re Free Foods, but not Speed. …
Can you go over your SYNS and still lose weight?
Only having 1 or 2 Syns or no even no Syns will not make you lose more weight. Syns are there to be used! Also skipping Healthy Extra’s are wrong too.. this will not help you to lose weight.
How many SYNS do you get a day?
All food that isn’t Free has a Syn value, and you choose how you’ll spend your Syns allowance (usually up to 15 Syns) each day.