She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.
You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.
The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.
Of course, these are included too. But one must also accomodate emotional eating that will take place from the initial impact of negative news that there is a disaster and no food available.
My parents also want me to go below 40% bf. My mother doesn't practically eat anything much. My dad's the biggest culrpit but even he's easing up because he's concerned about my body weight too.jimwho said:
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
...and what I'm going to do with the remaining crackers?
Don’t put them in your mouth.
That's very helpful.
....and suppose there is an emotional trigger to eat them when logic like that flies out the window?
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
Don’t bring bad food into the house. Can’t eat what you don’t have. Dump all the bad food out of your house.
Bro we’re all telling you what to do and you’re just in denial. Stay disgustingly fat then since you don’t want to take our advice. You think this is a drive through and you can pick and choose the advice? You have some serious issues to look at being over 40% body fat.
I thought it wrong to waste food.
You cant jump on that bandwagon if you are the only one who advised weed. When I responded seriously to your insane post then you go on attack. YOU are not contributing to this at all, everyone else is.
This is a troll thread. You just want attention.
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
You don't think the emotional triggers here are real so you think its a troll thread. In fact, if you had a hint of it you would puke. If it were a troll thread then I'd be more open to what the triggers are, but I have kept that hidden and am focusing on the diet part. So far, nothing detailed, gross, or dreadful was mentioned apart from some specific foods and eating.
If there is a disaster you need to be lean and mean. Ready to fight, be fully prepared to protect. When sht hits the fan you don't strap on a feed bag and power thru a box of Twinkies. Can't tell if you're joking!
That's a zombie apocalypse from Zombieland, lol! The main character wanted Twinkies and was hunting store to store for supplies so he can eat more twinkies. I remember that. That's a movie, but I'm not crazy like that. A prep channel did advise to stock up on some non-perishables like crackers, etc.... Perhaps I had listened to the wrong advice about the types of food to store.
Speaking as a guy who lost more than 100lbs when I got my act together some yrs ago.....
And if this is a genuine concern for you...
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
There are lots of churches with food pantries that would gladly take the food.
Your doctor really ought to be the one bringing it up. I'm six two and about 180 pounds. When I approach 190, my doctor will start telling me that I am borderline obese. He's going off bmi charts, which are kind of silly, but he means well.
It doesn't matter if food is healthy or unhealthy, if you eat too many carbs then you're going to get fat. This is common sense.
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.