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Well, after much thinking – I have decided to take the opportunity that was presented to me when we experienced headache after headache migrating myfoodcount.com to a new home. The opportunity? Well, to shut down memberships on a 4 year old site that was growing in popularity and traffic. I have turned myfoodcount.com into an information only site.

Why?

Five years of patches, rewrites and upgrades have made the entire system increasingly messy. Like an old house, it either needed a major renovation to each and every room or be blown apart. A lot has changed in the past 4 years, and I plan on building something that will take advantage of all this and more. As a result, the entire “dynamic – members only” section will be put to rest, but out of these ashes, a legendary Phoenix will be reborn.

What now?

Well, in the meantime, while I allow myself to absorb the ramifications of this decision not only within myself but also to our membership, my motivation that lead me to build myfoodcount.com hasn’t changed… I will now focus my attention on the blog and rebuilding something that can truly be legendary. To say that lessons where learned from myfoodcount.com over the past years is an understatement… and now each and every one of them will be applied towards making something far more grand than just health… LIFE!

Thanks for the lessons!

I thank all our members for their patronage whom ever they are (the site was completely anonymous, so I don’t know who you are). This is not a time of sadness, but of great opportunity, the more I worked on myfoodcount.com, the more I realized how expansive health really is! Your goals, aspirations and motivations in life have as much to do with your mental outlook as they do physical… trying to separate these two is simply impossible. I am no longer fighting within myself to do this, I see them as one unified “being” that needs to be cross-linked to be made sense of.

The Bottom Line

Don’t fear change, embrace it.

We had a booming little supplements business to help fund further development of myfoodcount.com but we had a few dragons to slay so I decided to take it offline as a temporary measure. Well, those dragons are now dead and as a result, shop.myfoodcount.com has been re-launched!I figure people are going to buy supplements regardless of the science out there (some good, some bad) so why not help people save up to 60% off retail pricing all while supporting myfoodcount.com! It’s a win for you as much as for us! I am a customer of shop.myfoodcount.com myself and look forward to stockpiling a few essential supplies for the Extreme Health road that lays ahead of me.

Thanks for your support ahead of time!

I am happy to announce that myfoodcount.com has finished a quick and simple E-Cards system for you to send messages to friends and family while letting them know about us!

You can check it out at http://ecards.myfoodcount.com

Enjoy!

Due to popular demand, I have decided to launch a job board specific to the health & fitness industry for both myfoodcount.com and our Extreme Health Blog which you are reading on right now.You can find it by clicking on the big green widget on the left hand column on either site, this is for both employees and employers so it should be of mutual interest and its 100% free to browse. Who knows what your future holds!

Keep those suggestions coming, they are a valuable source of information and who knows… some of them may be implemented within our lifetimes!

Oddly enough, myfoodcount.com never really had a logo beyond the text play since work first began over 5 years ago on its foundations of being the internets only free and anonymous health monitoring system! Trying to convey such a complex message into simple imagery while still immersed into production mode isn’t an easy task.

What does it mean?

The goal of the brain is to survive another day but to achieve this goal, do you put the body into starvation mode or athlete mode? If you put the body in starvation mode, the body will go into hibernation and preserve energy to fight another day but not be very apt at catching or finding new energy sources. If you put the body into athlete mode, then the body goes into hyper-activity with system wide improvements but at the cost of a lot of stored energy in the hopes that you can catch or find new energy sources. Stay in starvation mode too long, the body breaks down and is no longer able to acquire new sources of energy but if it stays too long in athletes mode, costly injuries and metabolism could use all your energy stores up. This internal struggle goes on every minute, every hour and every day of our lives from the day we are born and only stops when we die.

Is there a happy medium?

Of course there is hope, but you are fighting your brains survival mechanisms all the way. You see, your subconscious brain is an extremely conservative penny pincher, as soon as you no longer need athletes mode resources then it goes right into hibernation. Your brain does NOT want you to be muscular, toned and with a low body fat because you will be the first to die should a change in the ecosphere you live within cause food to be more difficult to find. Put another way, your brain has NO CLUE that you live in a modern era where you buy your food at grocery stores and can easily acquire calorie dense foods such as junk foods at every corner. It still thinks you are out in the middle of nowhere fighting for your survival. The happy medium requires constant conscious thought and positive re-enforcement against your subconscious. Going to the gym instead of giving in and watching TV, eating healthy balanced meals when your brain CRAVES junk food and trying to acquire pleasure out of this internal fight. You don’t want to be fat but you don’t want to be an extreme athlete for any long period of time, you want to have some fat and as much muscle as you can naturally keep.

Perception is reality

So, you see that red guy to the left, he is at the extreme of survival mode, do nothing, being essentially a huge ball of fat… your subconscious goal but conscious nightmare. You don’t want to be at the other extreme with the guy to the left where he has NO fat because then you essentially put yourself into an anorexics body, you loose all muscle mass, you start having severe health problems and you are borderline dead. You want to be the green guy. You have some fat, as much muscle as naturally possible and in metabolic homeostasis.

The Bottom Line

Fighting your internal programming is the best way towards achieving the body you desire.