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.
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
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.
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.
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.
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.