Anyone doing the Subway diet?

The subway diet is a little bit deceptive, it's fine as long as you have low carb bread, no condiments, cheese and all the things that make a sandwich tasty.

Subway is my favorite fast food choice. I get turkey without cheese and fatty sauces and I load it up with veggies. I wouldn't eat it everyday though.

I read Jared's book on a whim. I wasn't expecting much, but it was a lot more interesting than I expected. Glad I read it as I felt it was an interesting story. I occasionally eat Subway too since I like the options there when I am working and need something on the road for lunch.

In the book, Jared explains he was overweight his whole life. Things just peaked in college. He was eating well over 10,000 calories a day and weighed over 400 lbs. He could hardly walk. In fact, he was taking the campus loop bus on a 40 minute ride from his student apartment to get to a class that he could have walked to in five minutes -- if he could physically handle it -- which he could not.

After trying numerous diets and failing -- he details a couple of these experiences and the reactions of his college roommate -- Jared noticed the Subway that was right near where he was living in his college apartment. After checking out the menu, he created his diet:

Breakfast was coffee only. No food.
Lunch was a 6" Turkey sub with veggies, no cheese, and mustard, and a pack of Lay's Baked Chips. Diet Coke to drink.
Dinner was a 12" veggie delight with no cheese, and mustard. Again, Diet Coke to drink.

Jared felt this diet was sustainable for him since it included 18" of bread a day, one of his favorite foods. It also left him less hungry and able (barely at first) to wait until his next Subway meal before giving up. He describes the initial mental and physical battles with this, but he successfully resisted making the call out to pizza delivery or pigging out at the school's cafeteria and such as was his prior habit.

Exercise was eventually walking to some classes instead of taking the campus bus. The first few attempts left him drenched with sweat and on the verge of blacking out. This got a lot easier, and he also started taking stairs up to classes that were several flights up as well.

He was eating around 1200 calories a day about. Shed 240lbs in one year. Got down to 180lbs at his lightest. Some people no longer recognized him.

Right. And the key point is that it is what worked for him. It is important to find something that you can stick to.

Subway's bread is the worst! Empty calories! But if you must then opt for the chicken sub with veggies! No mayo!

Why is subway bread the worst?

Why is it bad to have mayo if it fits within my calorie allowance?

Jared is 6' 2." Obviously, he has no need to weigh 112 pounds, which is my goal at 5' 3 1/2." That being said, I would be able to fit one veggie footlong per day into my diet. I am a vegan and LOVE a veggie footlong on white bread with tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, lettuce, bell pepper, pepper and salt! They have the best white bread- I LOVE white bread and much prefer white bread to any other kind of bread-- and it is vegan! In fact, it is the only vegan white bread I know of. (I don't know whether any of their other breads are vegan-- I didn't ask them that when I contacted the company, because I knew the white bread would be my favorite, so I only asked about the white bread.) When not dieting, I order the same, except with oil added. The best bread in all the world! The best sandwich! The best lunch!

Yeah, that sandwich is basically a salad and bread. Not the worst thing you can eat on a diet for a meal! Makes it easy to track calories too. But aedreana, make sure you get some good protein in your other meals

Personally, I think Jared's diet was a bit light on protein and, of course, fats. (So I wouldn't personally do it...but that is just IMO)

His father is a medical doctor, and he and Jared's regular doctor found out able his "Subway diet," they just added a multivitamin and told him to keep going. Losing the weight and the health benefits of doing that was the top concern. Jared also felt that he could not eat other things while in the middle of his experiment as he felt that would ruin his willpower. Once he got to maintenance, that changed.

Too much sodium for me. Besides, I can make sandwiches at home way cheaper.

the wheat has caramel colouring to make it look like wheat bread

That shouldn't even be allowed. That's obnoxious!

1998 called, it wants its diet back.