"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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Is BMI a bunch of bull?

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My good friends brother is 5'10" and 230 lbs. According to the BMI, he is OBESE.

However, he does not look fat at all, but DIESEL. The kid is jacked and looks rock solid. He does not look like a slob at all.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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Did his BMI ever get calculated by a special kind of skin clamp or are you just going by entering his weight into an online BMI calculator?
 

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Search BMI limitations on google. There are alot of reasons why it's bias to people with high muscle density.
 

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Flyer said:
Search BMI limitations on google. There are alot of reasons why it's bias to people with high muscle density.

Which means there are less fat ugly people walking around the streets of America then we think.
 

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Yes BMI sucks ass. Doesn't take body composition into account at all.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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stuka1939 said:
My good friends brother is 5'10" and 230 lbs. According to the BMI, he is OBESE.

However, he does not look fat at all, but DIESEL. The kid is jacked and looks rock solid. He does not look like a slob at all.
What's your hip to waist ratio in relationship to your BMI, also is your waist size 35" or larger? People always mistakenly just do the basic (old) calculation without taking into account that when the formula was originally created, people with a BMI over 25 were absolutely fat as compared to the average population which fell somewhere around 22.

Diets didn't consist of highly processed foods like today and the portions were much smaller. In the changing times the normal BMI for Americans has jumped over 25. Someone may only be 150lbs but what if they were over 20% fat? That's 7-10lbs more fat than what's considered a healthy. That may not seem like a lot and would hardly be noticeable if you are over 200lbs with a gut, but if you had been a svelte 140 and jumped up 10lbs, you'd readily see it.

In a nutshell, if you're athletic, you definitely need to take your waist to hip ratio. More times than not, the truly fit athlete wouldn't have a waist size over 35 either. If they did, their waist to hip ratio would show that they were proportioned in either a healthy or unhealthy manner.

BMI is pretty accurate if you are a learn how to use it.
 

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KontrollerX said:
Did his BMI ever get calculated by a special kind of skin clamp or are you just going by entering his weight into an online BMI calculator?
BMI uses weight and height.

What you are referring to is bodyfat composition which can be calculated through electrical impedance, water displacement, clamps, or measuring strips and some calculations.


BMI sucks. You can be 220lbs and ripped to the bone, but the BMI sys you are obese, because you are heavier than you should be at that height. It's only accurate for Joe Sedentary Average.
 

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He might be doing HGH.
 
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