Galantys Game Plan

It’s that time of year again….the weather is beautiful, the kids are home from school, the work is piling up, the to-do list is growing exponentially, and the social calendar is overflowing.  The lazy, fun-filled days of summer tend to be accompanied by a variety of foods I typically avoid and evenings getting to bed much later than I’d like.  It’s a fun time of year for sure, but I have been starting to feel the effects of all the hoopla both physically and emotionally, so I decided this week to take a break and do a bit of cleansing…a week of only raw foods and live juices plus my daily yoga and meditation with the goal of cleansing and re-vitalizing both my mind and body.

I thought I would share this juice recipe with my readers to entice you to join me!  This recipe is from the book The Seven Day Total Cleanse by Mary McGuire-Wien.  I highly recommend this book;  it’s chock full of great blends of tasty juices.  Not only does it taste great, but it is Read the rest of this entry →

I swore this time would be different. I would not revert back to all my bad habits when I went on our annual ski trip as I do every other time I go on vacation. I would not fall prey to the greasy lunch time fries and the après ski cocktails (which seem to occur earlier and earlier in the day with each passing year). Read the rest of this entry →

So I’m back. You didn’t really think I could stay away from this blog for too long did you? I have truly missed writing the articles, so the posts may be infrequent and sporadic, but they will be here when inspiration strikes.

I’ve had quite a few weeks since the holiday madness relinquished it’s control over my life to unwind, relax, and enjoy some much needed downtime. (Although coaching our kids’ basketball teams and racing from one after school activity to another isn’t exactly downtime, it’s less busy than it had been for a few months.)

One of the things I have been enjoying the most during these cold winter months is reacquainting myself with my juicer. I’ve been giving it quite a workout of late. Juicing isn’t something I usually associate with the cold winter months; I’m more of a Read the rest of this entry →

I never knew I had sweat glands in my shins.  I kept wondering where the water pouring down my legs was coming from…my shins and knees couldn’t possibly be producing sweat.  Perhaps my vision was just blurred from the sweat pouring off of the tip of my nose and I was starting to hallucinate.  I’m not typically a sweater, so all of this liquid pouring from my body was a bit disturbing to me.  The source of all the sweating…I was in the midst of my first hot yoga class.

Hot yoga, for the uninitiated, is officially known as Bikram Yoga. It involves going through a series of 26 poses—the exact same poses in the exact same order Read the rest of this entry →