I discovered a great thing today: kale, sold living in pots. Gorgeous, purple-tinted kale that can last me until the first frost. If I had only that one plant, it would probably cover my vegetable needs for close to a week. And what a joy! They fixed the balcony at my school apartment so it's no longer rickety and dangerous to put stuff on it. I'll be buying myself more farmer's market kale next Saturday. We'll see how long I can make it last at school on the balcony. And there's a farmer's market at school, so we'll see if my locavore experiment at school will work. I'm also planting wheatgrass and various sprouts, which has been successful this past month, so I may get farther than you think I will…
I like living at school and conducting my little experiments. Makes me feel like I'm actually becoming self-sufficient (when actually everything in my experimentation is funded by my parents).
I'm discovering (or rather, rediscovering, as I wasn't the one who came up with this idea in the first place) the joys of wrapping things up in leaves to eat. Romaine lettuce—I can't take it unrolled, but somehow when it's rolled up, the flavors and textures condense, and it suddenly doesn't seem so grassy or bitter. And super sweet fruit? Too sweet on its own, but marvelous with leaves. I'm trying out rolling stuff up in what Koreans call wild sesame leaf, but is actually a kind of perilla (that tastes different from the Japanese shiso). It has such an intense, interesting sesame flavor that I really don't know where to begin. I tried it with cantaloupe (bad food combining, I know), but both flavours were rather too strong and the overall effect was pleasant, but strange. I'm thinking that it might go well with slightly under-ripe bananas. Maybe a little heat to caramelize the banana's sugar might combine the two flavors together.
The reason for this sudden epiphany? Well, during the past year I've been noticing that I don't get hunger sensations or signals that I'm full until I start throwing up what I eat because I'm too full. My aunt massaged my back In a particular place that I always have to stretch to crack. I knew that the muscle there was too tight, but had no way to release the tension until she massaged it. It turns out that it was affecting my nerve signals, and now I can actually control cravings and tell if I'm hungry. It might seem normal to some of you, but this is nearly miraculous to me. I'm losing weight because of this. It was probably also a factor in my gaining weight. Actually, this particular problem in my spine was magnified because of my poor posture during studying in college, so I'm taking care to maintain good posture now.
The new Wii Fit game is a life-saver in this. Because of my scoliosis, I know where muscles are wrong, but I don't have any cues about how to fix them. Previously, to fix them, I would've had to spent much time in front of a 360-degree mirror. Now, the Wii Balance Board tells me which muscles (in front, back, left, right) are wrong by showing me where my center of balance is, and immediately I can pinpoint where it is and fix it. My posture is now noticeably better. I never thought this would happen.
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