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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.