Originally Posted by
mstrofbass
I started doing it (leangains approach) because it fit my schedule last semester. I also HATE getting up early enough to make breakfast, so with this I was able to get up as late as possible for class, eat my first meal at lunch, eat my second after my last class, and my third before 8 PM.
I was really worried about being able to cram my 3500+ calories (including GOMAD) into that amount of time. I found that even though I wasn't EVER hungry after my first meal, I could still eat without any issues. In fact, it was so easy (after learning to eat even though I wasn't hungry), that I thought about cutting an extra hour off of the feeding window. I recall getting the impression that increasing the length of the fast is not bad at all, but he just picked the 16/8 split because it worked well for most people.
My schedule this semester has made it a bit more challenging, but I can probably work something out if I try hard enough. Hoping to get both my low carb/high fat diet going with the leangains style IF. I predict it will work out very nicely.