"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.
protein intake limit
- Thread starter nibun
- Start date
"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
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.
K-Daddy
Don Juan
Your body's going to do SOMETHING with every bit of protein you eat, just as it will with carbs and fat. Don't use this as a license to get all your daily protein requirements in one or two meals, though. You need a constant supply of protein throughout the day to maintain a positive nitrogen balance in your body. You can play with it how you like, but try to make sure that, if you're doing a simple 6 small meals a day sort of diet breakdown, you're dividing up your protein intake reasonably among your meals. If you have to put significantly more protein in one meal than another, try to use slower-releasing protein like casein (in milk and dairy and stuff like that) and egg (do I have to tell you where this is found?
) so your body won't immediately digest it.Lets say you eat a 2 pound steak, there is no way your body can absorb all that protein in one sitting. That is why you should eat 5 to 6 meals a day. Depending on if you want to cut up or bulk. That way you can absorb everything up.
K-Daddy
Don Juan
And I didn't say that all the protein would be absorbed. Yes, there is a certain limit that is individual to each person as to how much protein can be absorbed for muscle-building or muscle-preserving purposes. What I was saying is that 30g is not necessarily the limit. And whatever protein your body does not absorbed will be likely used for fuel. That's what I was addressing when I was saying why it's important to space it out so your body won't have to make immediate use of the protein. Take casein for example; you can take in a whole lot of it at one type and reap the benefits of it better than you could something like whey. Casein forms into a solid ball and is then digested/used I think for the next 6 hours. Whey is digested almost immediately, so in consuming large amounts of whey at one time you run the risk of burning too much of it for energy and not maintaining a positive nitrogen balance.
I think the incomplete proteins you're referring to are those found in beans, which includes soy which, even isolated, is still incomplete I believe (though I could be wrong). They're still gonna absorb, but they aren't optimal for muscle-building or muscle-preserving purposes.
"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.
Surely if, as Arnold says, only certain protein sources can be fully absorbed then any amount (within reason) of such a particular source can and will be absorbed. It is certainly a good idea to consume a much higher amount than 30g for your first meal of the day and also post workout - some would suggest up to 100g immediately following a workout. Perhaps 50g (preferably whey due to the speed of absorbtion) immediately and another 50 an hour later would be a better approach - along with a good amount of complex and simple carbs to maximize insulin response and shuttle the protein to where it is needed.