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.
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
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Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
It seems to be working pretty well. I add a carb up every fourth day at night .Warboss Alex said:The true test is to try it and see.
However I wouldn't recommend it. Moderate-ish carbs + very low fats + low calories = recipe for catabolism (for most people).
I would increase fats and cycle carbs according to training needs (i.e. low carbs on offdays, more carbs on training days around the workout, maybe a few more carbs after a hard squat/deadlift session in the form of addition carb/cheat meals).
at 36 you won't be able to tolerate as many carbs as someone who is 26 unless you are fairly lean (in which case why you trying to cut?
But it also depends on what state of bodyfat you're at now, what you currently eat, and how you currently train.