In the spirit of advice-giving, following advice doesn't have to suck. Plain vegetables taste nice once your palate adjusts. You're allowed to stop running and

In the spirit of advice-giving, following advice doesn't have to suck. Plain vegetables taste nice once your palate adjusts. You're allowed to stop running and walk for a little while, and you don't have to run so hard you get a stitch. If you're on a diet then it's going to work better if you find foods that make dieting easy rather than eating microscopic portions of your usual meals. "No pain no gain" is often completely wrong; you can usually do something easy and painless rather than push yourself hard, and still get 80% of the gain (plus be more likely to form a habit and stick to it).