tbombz, dude you were wrong just admit it and move on. You can twist and turn things all you want. I have read his site and i'm very well aware of his method (his variation of intermittent fasting). You don't need to copy and paste a wall of text.
There are several protocols but the main idea is that you fast 16 hours and have an 8 hour eating window. For women the recommended fasted period is a bit shorter, 14 hours...as they seem to be more sensitive (get headaches, more hunger issues). Other than that there always needs to be some individualization but the most common protocol is is 3 meals within the 8 hour window (but you could eat twice or 4 times...up to you). One of the ideas of the leangains approach is that it is supposed to make your life easier. You don't have to eat every 3 hours.
The majority of calories should be eaten after the workout (in his leangains approach), so if you eat 3 meals you put one medium sized meal (including both protein and carbs) before the workout and then after the workout you eat the biggest meal of the day and then a third later on. On non workout days, fats are supposed to be kept a bit lower than on workout days. (not that I personally think this really is a big issue but that is another discussion).
He also has protocols for people who train early during the day (during the 'fasted' period)...he recommends to those people to have BCAA (or EAA....maybe a small protein shake..but preferably BCAA to keep calories down at this stage) before they workout so that you have some amino acids in your blood as you workout. Then you either eat a regular meal after the workout or in some protocols you don't break the 'fast' yet and have some more BCAA. Of course if you have BCAA you aren't really fasting anymore but that is how he sets it up.
There is no 23 1/2 hour fast (as you said) and no rule that says you can't have carbs in a meal (other than the 'fasted' training with BCAA before and sometimes after the workout depending on the specific protocol). And the big meal of the day is not to eat whatever you want, yeah you can be flexible but the leangains approach is not a green light for eating a lot of shit and disregarding calories in vs calories out.