3 weeks, 3 classes, 3 tests. A little over 3 hours to go until the last one! After today I will be able to relax a bit and focus on my longer term projects. And take 3 vacations coming up on Oct + November!
I set out on this beautiful fall day for a bike ride to the gym at 9:30. I spent 30 minutes climbing stairs with Better Homes + Gardens and then did 10 minutes of weight lifting. I rotated between the machines today. What I hate most about weight lifting is doing multiple sets – it just gets boring. So sometimes I just do a machine until my muscles burn and leave it at one set. Since I’m pushing them to the max, they still feel really tired, which is the goal!
Once home it was rush, rush to get to Rock Hill by noon for lunch at EarthFare and study time with my friends:
I got the usual – a big salad with a littla this and that. The highlight was the HUGE piece of onion skin I found mixed in with the lettuce 👿 And a nice fresh fig 🙂
Other highlights included salmon, wheatberry salad, butternut salad, chicken cubes, grapes, blue cheese, a grapeleaf and a bunch of veggies.
The 3 of us have to get studying!
Jessica @ How Sweet It Is says
That is a HUGE salad. I love figs so much…I love having them in salads!
christie, honoring health says
Great looking salad. I love fresh figs!
Good luck with the studying!
Danielle says
Love the salad, Good luck with the studying and your test!
Hallie (Healthy Twists) says
Fresh figs are pretty much the best things in the whole world.
Lizzy says
MMMM huge salads are awesome! 🙂 good luck studying
kay (eating machine) says
i love giant salad bars.
sometimes, when he’s trying to bribe me, my fiance will offer “we can go to the salad bar at whole foods!”
it works.
janetha says
that salad has so many fabulous ingredients! i love humungo salads full of endless items. hope you get good grades on all 3 tests!
Faith says
Looks like a perfect salad! Good luck on your test later! 🙂
Kristen says
Yay, Earthfare! They built one a few miles away and we can’t get enough!
kirsten says
Yay for fall vacations, I have one coming up so far that I’m looking forward too as well!
brandi says
have a good time studying! it’s always better when you’re not studying alone.
Sarah @ The Foodie Diaries says
Haha your satanic smiley is kind of intimidating… I love giant salads–and the fig addition is always delish!
Mara @ What's For Dinner? says
HI KELSEY!!! Looks like a great lunch
Leianna says
So much to do in such a short time, but when its all over there will be a great sense of accomplishment!
Good luck with it all!
Great salad!
Diana says
Big, big salad!
Good luck with the test!
Jenn Eats Nutritiously Now says
Not sure if I like figs. The texture is a little funny.
Jessica says
WHOA that salad looks good, sans the onion slice lol.
have fun with your 3’s!
lol
-muffy
Kailey (SnackFace) says
Huge salads like that are the best! I always get so excited eating them that I it eat super fast, anticipating what the next bite will hold. Hmm, is it bad to be that excited about a salad?
Love the study group- tres adorable! Good luck!
Whitney @ Lettuce Love says
That salad looks yummy! I have to check out Earth Fare when I am in Charlotte next month. I need a salad like that in my life 🙂
Good luck with the studying!
MelissaNibbles says
I have the same water bottle! It’s from Target!
Anne Marie@Her New Weigh says
Fresh figs are so good!
Julie @ Peanut Butter Fingers says
that salad looks unbelievable. i love all the ingredients… i want one of those places in florida! lucky ducky.
Marcia says
I generally feel compelled to do more than one set of an exercise. But I find lifting to be BORING (except for the brief time I was paying an 18-year old kid trainer $60/hour to train me). I was reading one of the machines that actually said lifting the correct amount of weight, slowly, and to failure (this was the pull-up/dip machine) was almost as effective as doing multiple sets. So, yay!
Food Makes Fun Fuel says
Everything in that dish is making me drool right now
Pam (Pamcakes and Eggs) says
Yeah I agree with about 15 people above — fresh figs are the BEST thing in the world. If only they weren’t so expensive. Sigh.
Courtney says
I’m in love with that salad!!!!! So many flavors and textures! Yum!
Even if you aren’t doing multiple sets, at least you are getting in some strength training. If you get bored, do 15 minutes of cardio and then a set of strength and repeat. Breaks up the boredom!
Courtney
Adventures in Tri-ing
angieinatlanta says
I like your idea of just doing one power set. Sometimes I get discouraged during weight lifting because I know I still have to do so much more!
Naomi (onefitfoodie) says
salad looks amazing! i LOVE fresh figs they are so full of flavor! esp when they are sliced and baked in the oven they plump uip and the flavor really comes out!
if the weights get boring you can throw in some cardio in btwn sets! like jump jacks, running in place, jump rope!
ash @ on the rocks says
I am always super jealous of your trips to Earth Fare. We don’t have those around here (los angeles). Kinda reminds me of Whole Foods…but whenever I made a salad there is costs $15 + !!
Heather @ Health, Happiness, and Hope says
A bike ride sounds just wonderful to enjoy a beautiful fall day. Glad you got to have a little fun with the girls for lunch!
lynn (The Actors Diet) says
i love “better homes and gardens” – when i was a kid i’d look through it to get myself psyched to do my chores….
skinnyrunner says
that fig looks like a rock! but i bet it tastes better than one. hehe
Jenna says
earthfare looks soo cool! we have those napkin containers at my colleg caf 😉
jenna
jess says
kath,
I highly suggest you check out the book “the new rules of lifting for women”. It truly changed the way I view strength training.
Jess
Jenn (www.j3nn.net) says
Big salads are the BEST!
Jenn
Madeline @ Greens and Jeans says
3 vacations will definitely be in order after all of that! Bummer on the onion skin! There is nothing worse than an unexpected visitor in your meal!
maria says
Glad to hear there is relaxation on the way for you… you work so hard! 🙂 And your onion-hatred is so funny for me.
Jac says
salad looks wonderful..sorry about the onion skin-even an onion lover like me wouldn’t like to see an onion skin in her salad! lol.
Have a fun time relaxing on your THREE vacays! I wish i could too!