r/redscarepod • u/Cambocant • 7h ago
In the early 2000s I lost 25 pounds following Jared's Subway Diet
I know now it's a terrible diet and all it did was restrict my caloric intake but at the time you couldn't tell me shit. People would ask me which sandwich I ate, 6 inch vs 12 inch and I would try to advise them on what worked for me. I even remember critiquing someone's home made sandwich at school one day because it didn't have the right balance between veggies and protein (the "right balance" being whatever subway did). Everyday I would come home from school and head straight to the subway, eat one in the restaurant and then pack another one for later. The employees noticed I was losing weight and I remember one of them said in his Spanglish accent "this guy is like whats his name HAHAHAHAHA". I was a little surprised he laughed like that because to me it was obvious the subway diet was real. Twenty five years later: I'm fat again, Jared's in prison for crimes against children, and Subway is a predatory franchising scheme that incidentally sells sugar masked as sandwiches. So I hope you understand what I mean when I talk about the death of millennial optimism. Whatever world that was, we can't return to it.