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Am I the only one that thinks Jared Fogle is secretly bulimic and barfs up all those soggy subway sandwiches he eats? I bet he keeps quizno’s(mmm mmm mmm mmm good) subs in his bathroomcloset and eats them when no one is looking. Still waiting for that story to break in the inquirer.Where are the papparazzi when you need them. I like subway but toasted is simply better.

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   My feelings for Jared are along the lines of "good for him", but I really doubt that his method of losing weight would work in the long run for a majority of people.  He was basically doing a variation of a very low calorie diet.  People can and do lose weight on these, but it is very hard to keep up for most people and they end up falling off of it before they get the results they want.  Then they have to learn a brand new way of eating to get into and stay in maintenance!     I’d love to have a dramatic weightloss like Jared, but I really, really doubt if I could do it the way he did.  And I’m not sure that he’s doing the majority of overweight people any favors by going on tv and making commercials that make his way seem reasonable to most people.  But he’s making a good living at it, so good for him.   — Annie As of 9-16-05: 258/210/140  Standing at 5 foot 4. 48 pounds lost.  70 left to go.  Started February/07/05 Come visit my weight-loss web site, Annie Takes Off. http://webpages.charter.net/lenny13/DietFrontPage.html

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Go 2 Guy: Jared teaching kids about health Tuesday, September 20, 2005 By JIM MOORE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST Perfect. On a day when I’m trying to make chicken salad out of something, the Go 2 Guy meets the Subway Guy. After appearing at the Seahawks-Falcons game Sunday, Jared Fogle showed up Monday at St. Joseph School on Capitol Hill to talk to kids about childhood obesity and the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. He showed the students the jeans he used to wear when he weighed 425 pounds and had a size 60 waist. He told them he started to gain weight when he was 7 or 8 years old, eating too much junk food and playing too many video games. What this has to do with sports, I have no idea, but work with me here — I got sucked into it after I heard a Sea Gal would be at St. Joseph because the Seahawks have teamed up with Subway on this educational campaign. I spoke to Fogle before he took the microphone. You know the story, but I wasn’t completely familiar with it until I Googled his name and found 23,600 links. As a student at Indiana, he lost 245 pounds — or 20 more than my entire existence — by having a 6-inch turkey sub and Baked Lays for lunch, and a 12-inch veggie sub for dinner, topped with spicy mustard. He then became a marketing monster for Subway, paraded on commercials that we’ve seen for nearly six years now. I pursued the dubious sports angle by asking him if he was a fan. Fogle said he is, and a huge one at that, in terms of passion now. Back in the super-sized days, he couldn’t go to Assembly Hall to watch the Hoosiers because he was too big to fit in the seats. Fogle loves the Indianapolis Colts and plans to return to Seattle when Peyton Manning and Co. play the Seahawks on Christmas Eve. "I get recognized more in Seattle than in any other part of the country," he said. "There’s something about Seattle. I think it’s because people are so health conscious here." (He said this 12 hours after the health-conscious Go 2 Guy slathered a pint of H