Exercise Tool #3 Get Your Shoes On Once you have established your minimum baseline, you need to commit to it no matter what. There will be many times when you will want to justify missing your appointment. This is NEVER acceptable, no mat- ter what. My clients often tell me that they don’t know if they can make this kind of commitment; they don’t know if it is possible. When I ask them if they would be willing to make the commitment for $500,000, they admit that they would make it happen for that kind of money. Exactly. It is possible. (By the way, I also ask them if they would sell their health for the same amount and all of them have said no way!) So, commit to doing this for something worth more than half a mil- lion dollars—your physical and emotional health. When your feel yourself having good reasons for miss- ing your baseline appointments, make sure you call these reasons what they really are: excuses. There will always be a reason why you can’t do it. There will be things that come up that capture your attention that seem more important than a five-minute walk. You will be tired, sick, stressed, and busy. Don’t ever let those things come before you and your well-being. 63 • If IAm So Smart, Why Can’t I Lose Weight?