I bet it is -- though I'm guessing it helps to have company. If I understand you, the fast/abstinence discipline include Sundays?
“If I understand you, the fast/abstinence discipline include Sundays?”
Yes, though we are allowed wine on weekends and fish with a backbone on the Feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos (March 25th) and Palm Sunday.
As for the having company part, well, yes it does help and in any event recipes get swapped and everyone learns new Lenten meals to prepare. Orthodoxy is very “communal” and fasting together, like worshiping together, is part of our Ortho-praxis.
All of this reminds and teaches us that to the extent we tame and control our appetite, so we die to the self that the “eye of the soul”, the “nous” becomes clearer and better able to focus on the Light of God and thus we advance in theosis.