Assalamu alaykum,
The fact that short winter days make for "easy" fasting in the West is well known. What is perhaps less commonly known and talked about is the problems of fasting in a non-Muslim environment. How about sharing your encounters (light hearted or otherwise) with others who have no respect for what you do in this holy month and how you cope with it. Shared experiences help face shared problems.
Here are 2 for starters:
Years ago, I worked with a group of very irreverant fellows. When they knew that I had to stay hungry during daylight hours but could eat as much as I wanted at night, the common reaction was "You mean you can stuff yourself at night? What is the point?"
For my part, I could not understand what the source of surprise was. After all, it is only a day's fast so why should it not end at night and why should I not eat as much as I want to.
It took some time to understand the mismatch in thinking. The Westerner's understanding of religiousity is predominantly Christian. The only fasting he knows of is the lent one, where the idea is to eat less over a prolonged period, without any difference between day & night. What one has to is do is explain the difference between lent fasting and Ramadan. Ramadan is not a 30-day fast but a series of 30 one-day fasts. A day in Ramadan calls for not just a daytime voluntary abstentation but increased good work and piety, with nights spent not in feasting and negating the day's work but in prayer.
Another common reaction was to treat daylight as some sort of enemy of food. "Why don't you just switch off the light?"
Here I have often had to explain that for Muslims, the positions of the sun & moon are not used just for (historical) timekeeping but have meanings in themselves and that we are supposed to coincide religious actions, such as prayers, with their movements. Fasting occurs between the sunrise and sunset prayers and is not just a matter existence or absence of light.
Eventually even the irreverant see the light.
Mustafa
PS: This request to share experiences is just to see what negative reactions have been encountered by members, without implying that there is nothing else in the West. I have non-Muslim friends who respect, even envy, what I do.