Beware of Subway Healthy Menu

Let me make this clear, Subway is still a lot better option than other places, but it is not perfect.

By now, we all know about Jared and his amazing weight loss. You the man Jared! It is quite impressive he has kept it off.

As well, Subway brags about their "less than 6 grams of fat" menu. Which gives us all the allusion that if we pick something from that menu, we are making a healthy choice.

For one sub, that is definitely not true.

My families favorite sub is the Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki. It is on the "6 grams or less" menu.

It is also on the list of "Most Sugar-Packed" sandwich. Because of the sweet onion sauce, the footlong comes packed with 38 grams of sugar and 740 calories.

That is nearly 10 teaspoons of sugar. As much as a can of pop!

So the moral of the story is this: you need to look at all aspects of health, not just one. Yes it might be on their low fat menu, but with all that sugar, if you have one of those subs daily for a year, you will pack on over 32 lbs!

I don't think Jared got so skinny eating one of those.

Double your Weight Loss

One of the most common questions I get is "how do I lose weight"?

For a long time I have offered a variety of suggestions because I have dropped over 50 lbs myself after I thought I was at my "ideal" weight.

Thing is, most people didn't follow the suggestions. They would start, then stop.

Honestly, that is fine and to be expected. If your only motivation is to look better in a swimsuit, you will never lose weight because you will always convince yourself "I don't look as bad as I think, this must be my ideal weight, I don't look as bad as ______," etc.

To truly lose weight, your motivation has to be better health. That is the only motivation that will keep you on track.

Last week Time magazine (click the title of this blog for the link) referenced an article from the American Journal of Preventative Medicince that found that if you keep a food diary, you will double your weight loss compared to those that didn't.

Pretty cool huh?

Now I know a food diary sounds annoying, but frankly after the first day, it is easy.

Check out the article, start your food diary. See some real change.

Where do we go from here?

A great friend of mine said recently, you should do a blog. I said why? He said, because you like to teach people and you like to talk.

I couldn't disagree with either of those thoughts, so here is my first blog post.

I am passionate about raising the bar for health for everyone I come into contact with. I not only study a healthy lifestyle, I live one.

Come back to get updates on great research going on, pictures of my amazing family and ways to live at your optimal health potential.