One of my most memorable interviews was when I got to speak with Jared Fogel about his famous "Subway diet" and his thoughts on Subway as a franchise. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

My Meeting With Jared Fogel
It was several years ago I became a loyal customer to Subway. It happened innocently enough. My wife Conni had attempted on several occasions to get me to try a sub from Subway without any luck. You see, I have never really enjoyed subs and never really made much of an effort to buy and eat them. Well, everyone knows how persuasive the powers of an intelligent woman can be so one day at her insistence, we decided to try a sub from Subway. You see, a new Subway had just opened by my house, as proximity was definitely a plus! I selected the 12-inch tuna sub without much enthusiasm. It seemed it was almost an attempt to appease her. Boy was I wrong! I was instantly amazed at just how fresh it was and how delicious it tasted. Since that day, Subway has become a staple of my diet as I eat there several times a week and I always look forward to going. The fact is that I feel like I am treating myself with something special.

Service is usually quick at Subway, especially when you consider that virtually everything is custom made right on the spot for your order. Subway trains their franchisees to ensure that service is fast and the staff is polite and attentive. Subway offers a great nutritional guide filled with great information such as how many calories, fat, cholesterol, protein and fiber each variety of sub contains. The nutritional guide also has charts on how Subway measures up against Burger King, McDonald's, Taco Bell, and KFC. The nutritional guide had a story and photo about a gentleman named Jared Fogel, a gentleman who had lost considerable weight consuming a diet consisting of primarily low fat types subs from Subway. The fact is that I began to notice Mr. Fogel on the Subway commercials being played in the Northeastern part of the United States where I live. His story intrigued me and I was later able to interview this affable Subway spokesman.

My meeting with Jared
It wasn't an easy process to set up an interview with Jared. I had to go through several people at Subway and then Jared's agent before I could get an interview. Who is Jared Fogel? Jared was a student attending Indiana Universality. Jared took an unusual approach to losing over 245 pounds. He went out for some fast food! Jared visited a Subway restaurant twice a day for an entire year. He is now an inspiration to dieters worldwide. What Jared calls his "Subway Diet" helped him trim his waist nearly in half.

"Most people think of fast food as a way to gain weight, not lose it!" says Jared. He got the idea when he saw a sign in his local Subway shop. promoting the "Seven Under Six Grams of Fat" sub range. It was a far cry from the diet of fat-laden, fast food burgers and pizza Jared was used to. Jared ate a 6-inch turkey sub for lunch and a foot long veggie sub for dinner. He enjoyed a small bag of baked potato chips with lunch and permitted himself diet soft drinks throughout the day. He skipped breakfast and held the cheese and mayonnaise for a diet that totaled less than 10 grams of fat and about 1,000 calories per day. He loaded his sandwiches with tons of lettuce, green peppers, jalapeno peppers and pickles topped with a bit of spicy mustard.