Rule #3: Be Healthy
A personal ad that reads “Overweight smoker with a gambling problem seeks young, slim, beautiful redhead with huge tits to wheel me to my AA meetings” isn’t likely to get much response. Get your shit together and get healthy!
We can’t all be built like Brad Pitt. For one thing, we don’t have millions of dollars and a personal trainer to bully us into shape for 6 hours everyday. Despite an 8 billion dollar weight loss industry, we are still fat. It’s time to face the fact that our genetics play the most important role in what we look like. But before you stuff that second Big Mac in your pie-hole, keep in mind that there is a vast difference between a flabby 250-pound man and a muscular 250-pound man.
More and more of us lead sedentary lives, we work at desks in front of computers and with the appeal of 500 cable channels, our entertainment usually involves a couch and a remote that keeps us from having to get up to raise the volume. It is important to find an activity that you enjoy that will also reap major health benefits. Surfing, jogging, bowling, dancing at clubs… anything! Get a gym membership and go swimming, or take yoga class to enhance your flexibility. Do something to improve your cardio-vascular system. Women do not want to spend their time with a man who gets winded walking up a flight of stairs, or who is likely to drop dead of a heart attack during sex. Unless you’re rich.
Eat Your Wheaties
“Most men make the mistake of eating too little in the morning, and then get so hungry they go overboard and eat a giant meal later in the day,” says Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., a nutritionist in Irvine, California, and author of Stealth Health.
A typical breakfast is just a couple of hundred calories, mostly in the form of simple carbohydrates that spike blood-sugar levels and leave the body starving for energy a couple of hours later. Even a classic fiber-rich breakfast — say a cup of raisin bran with blueberries and skim milk — provides less than 300 calories and only about 10 grams of protein. An ideal breakfast needs to be much larger — between 500 and 600 calories. And it needs to be packed with vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, including at least 20 grams of protein and at least 5 grams of fiber. That will give your body a high-quality, long-lasting, steady supply of energy to help you through the morning.
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