"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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Rye bread

"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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Rye has a few more carbs and a little less protein but the difference isn't enough to really worry about. Any of the truly dark breads are typically better than any made with white flour.
 

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I don't remember exactly off the top of my head but i'm under the impression that rye bread is lower gi than most other breads but i don't feel like looking it up right now to be certain.

Most 'whole wheat' bread is bogus anyway. I even think there's some nonsense going on with subway's wheat bread being dyed white bread.
 

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mrRuckus said:
I don't remember exactly off the top of my head but i'm under the impression that rye bread is lower gi than most other breads but i don't feel like looking it up right now to be certain.

Most 'whole wheat' bread is bogus anyway. I even think there's some nonsense going on with subway's wheat bread being dyed white bread.
Breads made with the dark grains typically have a lower GI. As for the 'whole wheat,' it's best to go for foods which are labeled "100% Whole Wheat" in order to select the most beneficial products.
 

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mrRuckus said:
Most 'whole wheat' bread is bogus anyway. I even think there's some nonsense going on with subway's wheat bread being dyed white bread.
What???? Is this really true?
 

"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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Francisco d'Anconia said:
Breads made with the dark grains typically have a lower GI. As for the 'whole wheat,' it's best to go for foods which are labeled "100% Whole Wheat" in order to select the most beneficial products.
That's my point. They'll say that, claim it, whatever but it still won't be true. "100% whole wheat" covers a lot of bread and it's not just one thing. It's more a marketing gimmick than anything.


*google google*
ok, i'm back. I didn't spend much time but here's a start:
http://www.theloseweightdiet.com/blog/37/whole-wheat-bread/

See, how can it be 100% whole wheat if they added a bunch of sh1t?!
 

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mrRuckus said:
That's my point. They'll say that, claim it, whatever but it still won't be true. "100% whole wheat" covers a lot of bread and it's not just one thing. It's more a marketing gimmick than anything.
Actually the Department of Agriculture says "100% Whole Grain" can only be used if the product contain the entire grain and not stripped away or hybrid flour mixtures.
 

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Kerpal said:
And even that isn't enough sometimes. At my grocery store there is only ONE kind of 100% whole wheat bread that doesn't have high fructose corn syrup!
Well, at least you've found it. The other breads may have been of the "honey wheat" variety.

Another source of nutritious foods is that which are made for people with certain food allergies. Typically it's from some type of processed foods so there are now producers who make healthy, natural alternatives to several of the foods people eat on a regular basis.
 

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subway's wheat doesn't even claim to be 100% whole wheat. b/c it isn't. the white & wheat have the same fiber/sugar profile, while the wheat actually has more starch! lest you think honey oat sounds better, it's got even more sugar & starch, and one extra gram of fiber (the ratio's about the same). the estimated glycemic loads are all nearly the same.

white: http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c21ij.html
wheat: http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c21ik.html
honey oat: http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c21ip.html

conclusion: forget going low carb w/ a subway sandwich.
 

"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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some of the starch in potato bread comes from (surprise).

ergo, it's ratio of fiber to starch will be even worse, unless they get cute and throw some form of fiber in. check the package, your mileage may vary.

(in particular, bread producers manipulate serving sizes, slice sizes, and the fact that everything gets rounded to the nearest whole number to paint whatever picture they want)
 

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Its cheaper and healthier to make the bread on your own anyways.

You can buy the ingredients in bulk. You can choose your own gluten, you can choose to mix in a few tablespoons of protein, you can use oats, white flour, whole wheat, mix wheat. You can choose if you use milk at all, or skim, or whole. You can choose to use sugar or aspartame (kidding).

When you make it on your own its so much better. Also, learn how to make the bread WITHOUT a breadmaker, it tastes better coming out of the oven in my opinion.
 

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I went to pick up some rye bread yesterday. They were all listed as being made from enriched flour. Is that the stuff we should be avoiding?
 

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DarthJuan said:
I went to pick up some rye bread yesterday. They were all listed as being made from enriched flour. Is that the stuff we should be avoiding?
Not necessarily. Enriched (by FDA rules) means "added vitamins." Now if the vitamins are added to any white/bleached, refined flour then I would say pass.
 
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