Jared
from Subway - Jared S. Fogle was an average
overweight guy who decided to lose weight by creating a 1000
calorie-a-day diet that consisted of mainly Subway®
sandwiches. Originally
425
pounds, Jared, a
6' 2"
20-year-old Indiana University college student,
frequented
a Subway sandwich shop next to his apartment building in
Bloomington, Indiana and ate Subway sandwiches twice a day for
almost a year beginning March 1998.
His daily menu consisted of a
breakfast of only coffee, 6" turkey sub and a bag of
Baked Lays®
chips for lunch and a 12" veggie sub for dinner, with extra
veggies and no cheese, oil or mayo. And lots of diet drinks. He
loaded his sandwiches with tons of lettuce, green peppers,
banana peppers, jalapeno peppers, and pickles, topped with a bit
of spicy mustard.
As Jared began to lose weight, he introduced a regimen of
walking exercises into his diet (1.5 miles a day) and eventually
dropped 245 pounds.
His
size
60 waist shrunk to a 34.
The story of how
Jared lost his weight caught the attention of a college
newspaper, got
published in April 1999 and was picked up
by The Associated Press and ended up in Men's Health
magazine.
Eventually, the Subway Corporation hired him for
a series of successful commercial spots that touted their
"Low Fat Choices. Seven Under
6 Grams of Fat™" sandwich line. Jared soon became a minor
celebrity and appeared on TV talk shows as well as in an
article in USA Today.
Jared's story has motivated many to
lose weight. Subway even included 5 of these successful dieters
in their "Friends of Jared" ads. Ironically, the
Connecticut-based Subway Corporation doesn't officially endorse
the "Jared diet" and their company's dietitian advises "a
balanced breakfast and more fruits and vegetables."
Graduating with a degree in
Management and International Business,
Jarod established his own company (Jared Fogle Inc.) Subway now hires him for
commercials and promotional appearances nationwide.
In October 2001, Jared
married his sweetheart, Elizabeth Christie
and reportedly continues to
maintain his weight loss by eating a normal diet of about 2,400
calories a day.
Soon after their marriage, The Fogle's
domestic life was featured in a Subway commercial where Jared
and his new bride attended to such household duties as cutting
the lawn, cleaning out gutters, etc. And where did Jared go for
a meal after a hard days work?...Subway, of course.
In 2003,
Sheetz
one of the top convenience store retailers in the nation
("Not Fast Food. Better food. Fast.") produced a commercial
about an anonymous man who takes a room at a local motel, sits
on the bed and then begins to eat a very large submarine
sandwich. Playing in the background are the musical lyrics of
Luther Ingram's Soul song "If loving you is wrong, I don't want
to be right." Outside the motel room we see a car and the
license plate number JARED-1 (implying that Jarod Fogle of
Subway fame had been tempted to try one of Sheetz's sandwich
products).
In 2006, Jared published a
motivational book entitled "Jared, the Subway Guy. Winning
Through Losing: 13 Steps for Turning Your Life Around."
