"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

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.

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Diet Theory...

Skilla_Staz

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I was just thinking..in theory, if I could find a product with just protein in it, find some pure glucose or fructose or whatever, and take some MCT and EFA's or what not, could i build a pure diet? I know vitamin/mineral supplementation would be necessary as well..but would this be the ultimate "clean" diet?
 

"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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spesmilitis

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Well, eating pure glucose, thats worse than eating pure sugar. I think atleast with sugars, its two or three glucose molecules together.

Anyways, my nutrition professor said that nutrients are most effective when they interact with the foods they come from.
 

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that gives you no fiber, soluble or insoluble. you need a balance of fats, not just the 'good ones' (MCTs & EFAs are such useful supplements b/c american diets dominated by other fats). a simple sugar like malodextrin is potentially useful post-workout, but will play havoc with your insulin and metabolism the rest of the time.

more broadly, virtually every study of supplementation has shown, as spes says, that natural foods are more useful for health than the supplements that purportedly copy their "good parts"...

this makes sense. our GIs evolved as a compromise in order to process our omniverous habits, and get the most out of all sorts of foods (given those compromises -- we're pretty bad herbivores, for example). pure protein, pure sugar, and so forth were unavailable to us until extremely recently.

although it is possible to "fortify" some foods to make them healthier, for the most part, additives are put into our foods for other reasons (taste, texture, appearance, shelf-life, convenience, etc.) we still don't know what most of those additives really do for us, so there is a case for eating as simply as possible. but you're not proposing simple (primitive) eating, you're proposing simple (reduce our diet to its chemical components) eating. I think that's a dead end (plus it would be really, really boring!)
 

“The 22 Rules That Flip the Script With Women… And How You Can Use Them Tonight”

Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.

Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers.  Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.

I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.

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