text:  He lost 245 pounds. Someone who knew him as a freshman ran into him when he was an upperclassman and was just shocked and asked, well, how did this happen? Jared told the story and the guy said, you know, I'm going to tell somebody at the school newspaper. So the school newspaper did a story on Jared Fogle. It then got picked up by Men's Health magazine for a special they were doing on stupid diets that actually work.