Exercise Tool#2 Increase Your Minimum Baseline Each person has a minimum baseline for how much they work out. For some, it is six days a week for an hour without fail; for others, it’s walking from the bed to the refrigerator. What is your baseline level of exer- cise? This is not what you want or try to do, but instead is what you are committed to doing on a regu- lar basis. It is your standard for fitness. It was what you simply will not tolerate your life without. Many of us are all or nothing, so we either work out like crazy or not. We either have a gym membership that we use regularly or we don’t use it at all. We are either on a regime or we are “currently not making time for it.” My suggestion is that you remove this all- or-nothing attitude from your life. I suggest that you never make it possible for you to be sedentary again. You must remove this as an option. Once you start climbing the mountain, you have to promise yourself that you won’t ever run back down and sit at the bot- tom again. You can adjust your intensity, you can climb faster sometimes, and you can slow down at oth- ers—but never again let yourself be defined as someone who doesn’t work out. I mean it. From this 57 • If IAm So Smart, Why Can’t I Lose Weight?