I was under the impression that fasting did NOT mean the total abstinence from food. Doesn't it say in the Gospel that there was some man who fasted several times in one day?
I thought it may mean doing with less and skipping one or two meals.
"I was under the impression that fasting did NOT mean the total abstinence from food"
When we speak of fasting, we mean abstaining from certain foods, not stopping eating totally, and pushing back from the table just a bit hungry still.