Today is the day to choose 2 diets - one is your first choice, and the second is the backup in case you're finding that the first one doesn't work for you. There are all kinds of eating plans - and what works for one person won't necessarily work for another. Beck advises that you choose a healthy plan because extreme diets are firstly, bad for you and secondly, not sustainable. Beck also notes that most reasonable diet plans call for about 1400-1500 calories daily, and that most plans fall under two categories: 1) counting calories or 2) avoiding certain foods/beverages altogether. I have learned from experience that I don't deal well with diets that cut out entire food groups - like Atkins or the Fast Metabolism Diet. Eating high amounts of fatty meat and cheeses, with very few carbs leaves me feeling awful and very irritable. The Fast Metabolism Diet is very restrictive also - it may allow more "good" carbs but disallows coffee, dairy, soy, s...