Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
125g protein, with almost half coming from milk...Breakfast
4 eggs 24g protein
2 slices of toast
1 glass of milk 8g protein
Snack
Bran Muffin
1 glass of milk 8g protein
Lunch
Sandwich (i.e. meat, cheese, tuna fish, etc.) 25g protein
piece of fruit
1 glass of milk 8g protein
Snack
Granola bar
Slice of cheese
1 glass of milk 8g protein
Supper
Meat (i.e. chicken, beef, pork, etc.) 50g protein
Pasta, Rice, or Potatoes
Cup of veggies
1 glass of milk 8g protein
Snack
2 slices of toast
1 glass of milk 8g protein
yeah not sure whats going on with that diet, maybe the lunch and dinner meals are huge or something.Quiksilver said:Aye it was interesting Espi, though the diet was staggeringly low in protein while being high in milk.
125g protein, with almost half coming from milk...
Article was great, but the diet is mediocre and wouldn't be good for anyone with a little lactose intolerance. Would be better off with 1-2lbs of red meat and 12-24 eggs, save the milk for the cats.
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.
Espi said:LOL...yeah, that diet advice is whack...I have no idea how people can recommend such minimal nutrients for musclebuilding...it seems like most of the articles I read about nutrition rarely recommend suffcient caloric intake...
The article is interesting...especially the part about the pullovers...I've read a few articles stating that squats and pullovers should be worked as a superset...but I'm not sure I could drink that much freaking milk.