Day 2: I almost fasted kimchi today

I am not sure, but I think I subconsciously fasted kimchi for two meals today. If you did not realize this yet I am only eating 3 meals a day and those meals must consist of only rice and kimchi. I cannot snack and that has been one of the hardest hurdles thus far (and I am only two days into this).

Back to the fast...

I did not eat breakfast until 10am due to having a 1st period class. I did not hunt down any kimchi I simply ate a bowl of rice. At lunchtime I needed to finish some classwork and lesson planning so I missed that meal. I usually fast my lunch on Wed. and spend time with God, but I think I just made sure I was busy today so I would not think about kimchi. So, I still put work and food above my relationship with God. Crap.

I have told all of my classes about my journey and they have now become my accountability partners. At dinner a few of them came up to me and checked my tray to make sure I was doing everything correctly. One of them said, "Good work Mr. Hankins, just kimchi."


The only time I ate kimchi was by far the worst time of my day, especially because I was really hoping for some decent stuff to eat and it ended up being my least favorite kimchi: cabbage. I took a huge bite out of the cabbage and could barely swallow it because of how cold and sour it was. I really hate that stuff. I decided to make kimchi sandwiches using the rice as the filling and that helped ease the pain. As you can see below Ashley seems to love this stuff! I wonder how much she would love it if it was all she ate for every meal. I am jealous of all the people around me right now with better food to eat.


I am not sure if I will have a chance to teach everyone about kimchi tomorrow, but I will make sure to have a kimchi lesson before week 1 is over.