Dorene D Robinson RD CDN

Dorene D. Robinson, RD CDN

Weight Management Specialist

My passion for nutrition and weight management (including understanding how our bodies work) sprang from my own struggles with weight, in my late teens and early twenties, when at times I weighed over 40 pounds more than I do today.

Through healthy eating and an active lifestyle I have maintained that weight loss for over 25 years. This journey led me to becoming a registered dietitian in 1993, and maintaining a personal training certification for nearly 15 years.

There is nothing I find more rewarding than helping someone else become empowered to create their own success with their weight--that's what I get excited about! I know it's tough though, especially with the enormous amount of misinformation being peddled to people looking for answers.

Fortunately for my readers I love getting to the bottom of threads of research to see what the data actually shows, and I've been told that I have a knack for translating research into practical actionable advice. After hundreds of hours on Medline, and digging through the University of Washington Medical library stacks (and all the books, references, and continuing education I could get my hands on) I went about making myself an expert on evidence-based weight management research with a personal library of over 1,000 published research articles. I have particular expertise with:

*The metabolic literature related to the effects of dieting and exercise on basal metabolic rate and body composition;

*Appetite regulation;

*Exercise for weight loss and maintenance;

*The effects of protein, carbohydrate and fat on energy balance;

*Weight loss misinformation and myths; etc., etc.!

I have been a Registered Dietitian since 1993, and my focus has always been weight management. In addition to authoring The Healthy Eating & Weight Management Guide, some of the other things I've been up to include:

*Managed one of the largest outpatient weight management programs in the Seattle area, personally working with hundreds of clients over a wide range of BMIs.

*Providing training to nearly 2000 professionals who attended my accredited continuing education workshop (Advanced training in Weight Management, for health & fitness professionals working with weight loss) which was offered in 25 cities nationwide in 2003 and 2004.

*Prior to taking my training on the road in 2003 I had been a regularly featured presenter at fitness industry conventions in the US and Canada since 1997.

*Taught weight management to nutrition and naturopathic medical students as part of my graduate coursework at Bastyr University.

*Taught a weight management course at Lake Washington Technical College for students in the Fitness Specialist program.

*Maintained a certification as a personal trainer for 15 years.

I grew up in an athletic nature-loving family and remember my father weight training three nights a week from the time that I was just four years old. My dad will be 77-years-old in August 2010 and is still going strong!

For the past ten years my fitness routine has consisted of yoga (three days a week) and aerobics or walking (a couple days a week). Recently, I've starting to get back into weight training, which had been a regular part of my routine since my late twenties until I switched to yoga to rehab a chronic shoulder injury.

Dorene can be reached by e-mail at: beyonddietsRD@yahoo.com, or toll free at 877-250-5051.