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Intentionally Eat


I've lost 125 lbs, lowered my blood pressure and
cholesterol through diet and exercise.

Are you ready to Eat To Beat Disease, too?

My Story

Hi! I’m Cindy Newland. I’m a writer, health coach, animal lover, author of Small Bites, Big Results: A Common Sense Guide to Weight Loss, and don’t tell anyone, but I have been known to binge watch Andy Griffith.

Fifteen years ago, I was obese and weighed nearly 300 pounds. After experiencing an excruciating back injury that immobilized me for over a month, I reached a turning point. I started moving more (you’ll notice I don’t like calling it exercise), eating healthier, and praying big time, because I really didn’t want to do either.

Cindy Before

One Small Bite at a time, I began losing weight and changing my lifestyle. It took me four long years, but those years transformed me and helped me realize that I had a cruddy relationship with food. I used it and abused it.

My relationship still isn’t perfect, but I recognize a little sooner when I’m turning to food for emotional comfort. Now, I realize the difference between a craving and hunger. Sometimes I crave because I haven’t nourished my body with REAL foods and sometimes it’s because traffic sucked, the house is a mess, and my new recipe flopped.

“And I did without pills, surgeries or crash dieting!”

Cindy Newland AfterAfter all of these years I’ve learned no relationship is perfect and that’s okay. Somedays I will use food and somedays I will nourish myself with solitude, nature, and peace. It all belongs. That’s the balance I have learned. I refuse to mentally flog myself for eating a cookie. Cookies are good and I will eat them, just not the whole box (God willing).

So, that’s what this blog is about, healthy recipes, cookies, moving more, and I’ll share my trials and tribulations that I have gone and continue to go through. Not so I can receive attention, but hopefully so we can share in this life together. Sharing our stories helps us realize we are the same, travelers on the road to Peace.

About - Cindy NewlandI am so happy that you are here. Please share your story, offer encouragement and support in the comment section, help a fellow traveler. If you don’t want to join in the conversation, that’s okay, too. Read, cook, move, live. It all belongs.

A few more tidbits – I live in the Midwest with my husband (we were high school sweethearts) and 4 rescue cats, each one uniquely odd. I teach yoga and lead a Wellness retreat every year. I try to choose a different exotic location each time, since I like variety. I love my church, nature, coffee, zombies, baseball, television reruns, and Princess Bride.

You’re probably ready to start cooking, huh? As you wish…