 And so both the school newspaper clipping and the men's health article were seen by franchisees of Subway who clipped it and sent it to headquarters and said, this seems like something we could use. They reached out to Jared and on January 1st, 2000, they aired the first Jared Fogle commercial where he explained that Subway is the healthy fast food and that he lost 245 pounds by eating Subway twice a day and walking. Here is Jared Fogle.