"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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Fasting

BluEyes

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Do any of you guys have a day once in awhile where you don't eat anything and only drink water?

I do this once a month, and I go all out.

The last saturday of the month I essentially cut out all food(chewing gum excepted) and load up on water/green tea. On top of that, I use some diuretics. the kind that doctors give u before a colon exam, so I'm basically on the sh1tter several times during the day.

I reckon that since my diet is so high in protein(~340g/day), that a day once in awhile to cleanse the digestive system couldn't hurt.

Do you guys do any form of fasting?
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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Throttle

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BluEyes said:
Do you guys do any form of fasting?
only as a spiritual discipline or for a fasted blood screening. i'm entirely skeptical of the 'detoxifying' benefits of fasting. seems to me doing that on a high protein diet would simply shift from one sort of stress on the liver & kidneys to a different sort.
 

donjuanjovi

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Only when I get sick
 

Moon Ram

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Ya I got to do it for a month in every year.
 

Boschy

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I have never done that (water only day), but I try to have one vegetarian day per week. Note that I'm not doing a work out regime.
 

"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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