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Meet Robyn Priebe, RD, CD, registered dietitian and Director of Nutrition at Green Mountain at Fox Run in Ludlow, Vermont.

Robyn just completed the inCYST training, and she is on site full time as a resource for women with PCOS. Double the learning…double the fun!

I had a great time working with Robyn the first PCOS week and am really excited to team up with her to provide a great program for those of you who come join us.

There is still time to register, for more information, visit www.fitwoman.com.

In the meantime, get to know Robyn!

I am a registered dietitian working at an all-women’s health and fitness resort in Ludlow, VT, called Green Mountain at Fox Run. At Green Mountain, we focus on helping our participants make healthy changes in their lifestyle. Our philosophy is non-diet & permission-based. Our goal is to help our participants practice intuitive eating in order to get their bodies back in balance. We strongly believe that each individual has different nutrition needs and different obstacles to meeting those needs. We strive to guide our participants towards the changes in their eating and exercise habits that would meet their specific needs/goals.

Personal Interests:

Stained glass, glass fusing, playing piano, attending concerts, running, animal rescue, vegetarian cooking, sewing, painting, gardening/foraging

What a great thing to learn before I even had a sip of coffee! Anthony Sepe, RD, of the blog, From a Dietitian's Perspective, nominated me for the Kreativ Blogger award. Thank you, friend, and colleague, for thinking of me for this!

In return for accepting this award, I've been asked to do a few things:

• Thank the person who has given you the award — done!
• Place the Kreative Blogger Logo on this blog — done!
• Link to the person who has nominated you for the award — done!
• Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting

1. I speak German and Spanish in addition to English
2. I have participated in medical missions to Russia and Mexico.
3. I volunteered 5 summers at diabetes camp.
4. I love to read biographies of past presidents.
5. I enjoy volunteering in the animal rescue world.
6. I have climbed several 14,000 ft mountain peaks.
7. I am learning to play golf.

• Nominate 7 Kreativ Bloggers and post links to their blogs

1. Sasha Ottey, a woman with PCOS who started the PCOS Challenge and who hosts a weekly radio program on the topic.
2. Annette Colby, Ph.D., RD, who does a lot of inspirational writing on her blog and in her books.
3. Kate Benjamin, whose Modern Cat blog is beautful to look at and a daily fix for many cat owner.
4. Dawn Davenport, whose blog is devoted to those affected by infertility and who are considering adoption.
5. Gretchen Kubacky, Psy.D, a psychologist who specializes in working with people living with endocrine disorders
6. Ellen Reiss Goldfarb, RD, a inCYST network member who has worked selflessly to help inCYST gain recognition in Los Angeles…and who is a great"Food of the Week" sleuth for this blog!
7. Meri Raffeto, RD, owner of Real Living Nutrition, another great network of registered dietitians providing online nutrition counseling

• Leave a comment on their blogs to let them know they have been nominated — I just did that…:)

Have a great weekend and stay cool everyone! I appreciate your blogging…and your visiting this blog, too!

My posting has been somewhat erratic and for that I apologize. Sometimes life throws us curve balls that need to be honored. In this case…the curve ball was Norm.

I met Norm through my volunteer work in the cattery at the Arizona Animal Welfare League. All spring I've been seeing cats we've rescued from homes abandoned due to foreclosure. Every single one of these cases has been horribly sad…but I wasn't sure what simple me could do about it. Then I met Norm. Norm was left in a home here in Phoenix on June 1--no air conditioning, no food, only toilet water. Someone finally found him in that home on June 26, about as close to death as any living being can get and still breathe. He was so weak, he could not even stand on his own. He's needed two surgeries because his dehydration was so bad his intestines started to stick to each other and cause blockages that prevented him from keeping food down.

I was so upset when I learned of this case I couldn't sleep. I looked online and learned that in my county alone, there are currently over 30,000 foreclosed homes. All I could think about was how many other animals were out there in need of rescue? I didn't care about the overwhelming number. I just cared that someone try to do something.

Then, out of the blue, I found a small link online about a group of real estate professionals who had started a 501(c)(3) organization designed to rescue animals in just these kinds of situations. Long story short, I am now on the board and we're completely focused on lining up foster homes and donations so we can start to do the difficult work of rounding up animals who need us.

If you're interested in helping or donating, our website is soon to go live. You'll find it if you go to Lost Our Home Pet Foundation. In the meantime, you can send donations to 8105 E. Rita Drive, Scottsdale, AZ, or call Jodi Polanski at 480-688-7899 if you have a home to open as a foster.

And Norm? Well, he's been with us for about 3 weeks now, and the clinic staff say when he's completely renourished he's going to weigh about 10 pounds. Right now, after food and IV for 3 weeks, he's only just over 5 pounds. That gives you an idea of just how sick he was when he came into our lives. The main issue right now is that Norm is so playful he's not sitting still the way he ideally would in order to gain all that weight back. But the important thing is, his spirit is back, alive and well, and he's inspired a whole lot of people to step up and work together to prevent such future tragedies.

Now I can get back to the work of posting more information on this blog!