If your church requires you to fast during Lent, your church is sinning. If your church tells you that not fasting during Lent is sin, your church is sinning. If someone tells you to eat only bread and salt during Holy Week, then you would do well to snack on beef jerky in front of them.

To require fasting is an act of judaizing. Fasts should be voluntary at all times and a private matter between the believer and God - any other fast loses any spiritual benefit it otherwise would have had.

I know, I know, Augustine said it's sin to not fast during Lent, Athanasius said it's universal, and so did many other Church Fathers. All that demonstrates to me is that the Church Fathers had the same capacity for brain farts as the rest of us.