Weight-Loss Subway

Weight-Loss
I rarely make it to Subway, but when I do I end up getting a turkey with just cheese & lettuce. I know it could be healthier without the cheese, but I admit I am a cheese addict with no intentions of quitting!

Hope yours was good. :)

I like the idea of adding the meatball sauce, might have to try that on my turkey next time.
 
Most of subways sandwiches are low in calories and fat...it's the sodium that you have to watch out for.
 
My favorite is the roast chicken breast on whole wheat with everything but black olives (including jalepeno and banana peppers). I also put ranch and light mayo. Yum.
 
I heard the sodium is very high like 1000-1200 high but when I do eat there I like a nice turkey sand w/ cheese and mustard.
 
If I have to eat at Subway I would get the Chicken terrayki light on the sauce , ugh their cold cuts look so nasty thick and off colored.
 
A question on Subway nutrition

Hi everyone,,

Im attempting to eat well, and i find that because im terrible at cooking and have NO time what-so-ever, i look for foods that are being made or have been made. As of right now, I am addicted to the Oven roasted chicken breast wrap at Subway. If you look at the website , youre not going to find the wrap i eat, as i completely modify it to fit my taste. Heres what i have put on the thing... please , give me some nutritional input on this.

-first of all , its a wrap... im not sure if it is whole-wheat or not... there is no choice , but it doesnt look whole wheat to me
- chicken breast
- a little ice-burg lettuce (which i realize has NO nutritional value, but we do not have spinach at our Subways right now)
- Green peppers
- Banana Peppers
- american cheese
- and ranch dressing (I ALWAYS ask for only a little bit. It's hard to tell how much , but I always watch them , and its a thin strip of ranch dressing across the chicken breast)


the wrap is not that big , but it fills me up for hours. Please, let me know what you think of this thing. How many calories you would estimate it has, etc. i would say in length it must be maybe 6 inches. Thanks so much!


Carey
 
hi,subway do have a website with nutritional info which although you said you customise yours may give you a rough idea. alternatively you could add up the calories individually using something like fitday. maybe a bit of guess work involved but again would give you a rough idea.
according to the subway site a chicken wrap is 290 calories, add on some calories for some cheese and dressing and you have a good guide.
i enjoy a subway once or twice a month, about the only "fast food" i indulge in these days. i usually have a 6" wheat with chicken/ham and salad.:drooling: slim
 
Sounds good!

The website does give the nutritional info, but I always wonder just how accurate they are in real life. Perhaps in an ideal, lab situation it would be 290 plus cheese and such, but fitday.com might be a better choice. Would only need to input all the ingredients once. That chees and dressing could be remarkably deceptive. I would guess closer to 400+ calories myself, but in the long run, there are soooooooooo many worse choices out there. Even at my guess it is still a decent meal which can be easily worked into your calories for the day.

Now I want to go to subway but it is a 1 hour bus ride away.... :( Not very darn many Subways in China. People here aren't big on sandwhichs.... Too bad really...

sirant
 
I'm a subway addict. The info you find on the website will be pretty accurate, you just have to add cheese (2 triangles is 40 cal, I think) and ranch (theirs is not a "light" formula, so depending on the amount, it's probably 70-120 cals). The vegetables add a pretty negotiable amount of calories, so I'd probably put the total for the wrap at 400-500 calories. Not bad if that's your major meal of the day.
 
Subway is much better than the alternatives for the most part, but their sandwiches still have a very surprising high amount of sodium. Some people freak out about this, with heart disease in mind, although the jury is still out on whether this is actually bad. It's good or bad depending on who you ask. If you're exercising alot and sweating like a pig, doesn't really matter, as you need it anyway, as sodium is the #1 electrolyte that is lost when sweating, and you need it for lots of things to work properly, like your nervous system.
 
My only real gripes with subway that hasn't been mentioned here are as follows.
1, more of a knit pick then anything els here. It would be really cool if you could choose between organic and conventional ingredients.
2. Some of their meat products have added nitrates/nitrites.
3. Last I checked a number of their items contain numerous preservatives and artificial ingredients (chemicals).
 
To lower calories, take away the cheese and mayo, ask for light mayo if anything, have wheat bread (the healthiest) and keep to 6 inches. Don't buy cookies or donuts or crisps or fizzy drinks with it! And load it with veggies.
 
I get the veggie delight also. Subways I've been to put so little meat on the thing, you can hardly taste it anyway. So I save the calories for something else. Plus I love the veggie subs on wheat bread. YUM
 
i find most food at subway to be absolute crap.
roast chicken just isnt chicken when its an oversized battered reconstituted nugget
 
Subway Question....

I hate to ask such a dumb question but I am slightly confused

I tend to eat very well during breakfast/lunch but dinners kill me.

Recently, I started eating at Subway for dinners 1-2 times a week. I get a footlong on wheat, roasted chicken, american cheese, lettuce and tomato...

That's it...no sauce, nothing. I love it too and tend to get some chips but the lower fat kind.

Reading over the nutrition part, I see it is around 800 or so calories.

Do people consider that type of dinner to be an unhealthy one? Over-the-top dinner?

I have been very successful at my weight-loss up to know (down 30 pounds with 30 more to go)
 
Personally speaking, I try not eating Subway subs. Subway subs have a lot of sodium and that doesn't even count the chips and whatnot. Also, you don't get much veggies if you really break it down. For 800 calories, you can easily cook a meal that is not only much cheaper, but also has more veggies, protein, and whole grains IMO. But hey... if it's convenient for you, then do what makes you happy. Good luck.

-Sheryl
 
ya i like subway once in a while, but like what the above post said, for a cheaper price you can have a meal that has more nutrients and less calories. However, i do understand when subway is more convinient. My favorite is the italian bmt on wheat with no sauce, just every thing with pepper.
 
I love subway, better then most fast food, and its fast food

Matt:gnorsi:
 
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