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153: Subway's Star To Behind Bars: The Monster That Is Jared Fogle

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The Story of Jared Scott Fogle

Jared Scott Fogle was an outcast at an early age and by middle school, he had started gaining a ton of weight. By college, Jared weighed around 425 pounds with a 60 inch belt size at 19 years old. He decided to try out his own custom diet that no dietitian would have ever approved of. Between 1998 and 1999, all he ate every day was a footlong veggie sub, a 6 inch turkey sub, and a bag of potato chips as well as a diet soda. But he made sure to never eat more than 2,000 calories a day. And for Jared's size, this is what's called a starvation diet. His story quickly made it

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