From the USCCB: 
Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are obligatory days of universal fast and  abstinence. Fasting is obligatory for all who have completed their 18th  year and have not yet reached their 60th year. Fasting allows a person  to eat one full meal. Two smaller meals may be taken, not to equal one  full meal. Abstinence (from meat) is obligatory for all who have reached  their 14th year.
If possible, the fast on Good Friday is continued until the Easter  Vigil (on Holy Saturday night) as the "paschal fast" to honor the  suffering and death of the Lord Jesus, and to prepare ourselves to share  more fully and to celebrate more readily his Resurrection. 
Fridays in Lent are obligatory days of complete abstinence (from meat) for all who have completed their 14th year.
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