"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

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.

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Best raw vegetable

SayWhat

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In times of needing a snack, I want to go for something healthy. I like raw vegetables like cucumber, paprika's, brocolli,... but was wondering what's the best.

I'm physically active, I lift weights, jog and do simple pushups on spare time and was wondering what's the best in combination with this?

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"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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Too many raw vegtables will make you want to gag. They aren't digested so easily and it takes time for the benefits to come out. In reality, post-workout dieting needs to be quick acting foods. There's no reason not to eat them after a workout, but cooking them lightly AND ingesting the broth will be better than raw. Steaming is best, it helps to leech out the vitamins and kill bacteria.
 

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as a snack celery is great as it is calorie negative meaning that it takes more calories to digest it than you ingest from eating it. but it all depends on if you have a specific diet in place. do you need the complex carbs from something like yams or sweet potato or do you need something like a fibrous green ?
 
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I feel your pain. I'm a calorie counter myself; only way to be if you ask me. Calorie counting not only makes you lose weight, it helps to build self-control.

In my experience, you can't beat veggie steamables. I'm talking about veggies that come packaged to microwave and eat out of the bag. I always buy Birdseye, but there are different and cheaper brands. I usually get the green beans or broccoli and cauliflower. Spray them down with vegetable oil, add a little salt and pepper and it's on. Delicious, filling and hardly any calories.

Shout out to Espi.
 

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The benefits of vegetables are largely in the antioxidants. The way that they react with human cells is only beginning to be understood, but it is thought that they absorb the free radical particles that destroy cells. Science makes new discoveries all the time about the details of the process.

One very simple rule is that bright colors are healthy. Orange is beta carotene. Blue/purple is anthocyanin. Red tomatoes contain lycopene. Cruciferous vegetables like Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cabbage, and Kohlrabi also contain healthy antioxidants and phytochemicals. Green tea deserves a mention, and many mushrooms as well.

The "organic" label is meaningless now that the government took it over. Under NAFTA, the US is not allowed to question the authenticity of any labeling of imported produce. Mexican growers can coat their product with pesticides that are illegal to buy in the US. If it is labeled as organic, they make twice the profit, and there's no risk of getting caught. But small farmers in the US get inspected so rigorously that it's often not worth it to obtain the necessary government approval for the "organic" label.

What you really want is fresh food, and the closer you are to the production of it, the healthier it is. Your local farmer's market will have the freshest food.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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Stort_Brød said:
as a snack celery is great as it is calorie negative meaning that it takes more calories to digest it than you ingest from eating it.
Congratulations, you've just spouted some obscene bullsh1t
 

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SayWhat said:
In times of needing a snack, I want to go for something healthy. I like raw vegetables like cucumber, paprika's, brocolli,... but was wondering what's the best.

I'm physically active, I lift weights, jog and do simple pushups on spare time and was wondering what's the best in combination with this?

Thanks
So easy: kale
 
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