By Samantha Taylor
Subway is one of the biggest restaurant chains that promotes how healthy their food is and how you too can lose weight just like Jared did if you eat their subs.
However, if you don’t know how to order their food, you could be frustrated with your weight. It all comes down to choices and knowledge of what you are ordering.
Let’s look at an example. If you have one of their 6-inch subs loaded with fat and extras like chips and a soda, that is when you are asking for trouble. I honestly used to order a foot-long with chips, three cookies and a soda. Yes, I had a portion control problem!
Their healthy marketing plan promotes subs that have six grams of fat or less. Ha! That’s if it’s “dry” with nothing on it except veggies and meat. Most people do not order it that way and they think they are getting only six grams of fat but don’t know that adding the fattening toppings changes that completely. For example if you get the 6-inch turkey breast sub but add cheese, mayo and oil, the sandwich jumps from 280 calories to 530 calories and 32 grams of fat. That’s the same calories and fat of a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with cheese!
Ideally, you want to consume about 30-50 grams of fat a day, not all in one meal. Then if you add a bag a chips, soda and a few cookies, that “healthy” meal balloons to 1,360 calories. I encourage you to go online and look food up before you eat it so you know what you are getting yourself into.
If you want the healthy meal, get the 6-inch sub on whole wheat with only one item that adds fat, choosing cheese, oil or mayo instead of all three. That way you can still get some fat on there but it won’t be too much. Drink water and save the chips for a snack later. They even serve breakfast now, and that seems to be a better time for healthy ordering with multiple items under 200 calories.
Pay attention to how many calories are in what you are eating.