MEXICAN RESTURANT AT LUNCH!

astuderus
astuderus Posts: 31 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Today, I went to a mexican place for lunch with my sister. It's a pretty generic place. But I had the chicken Carnitas, and I just ate the chicken and viggies. I also only had two bites of the rice and beans. I am counting this lunch as 1500 calories. I figure I would put the larger number since I feel like it was A LOT. Does anyone have any suggestions what I should count my lunch as? Calorie wise?

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  • morticia16
    morticia16 Posts: 230 Member
    if you only had chicken and veggies, 1500 really seems a lot. depends on how much, of course. but still a lot.
  • sharonfoustmills
    sharonfoustmills Posts: 519 Member
    When I am not sure, I break my meal into all its little pieces and log it that way. So two bites of refried beans, log 2 tbsp (doubt you are taking bigger bites than that)- if there was cheese on the beans then log cheese, log an estimate of how many ounces of chicken, how many ounces of veges, etc.
  • MexicanOsmosis
    MexicanOsmosis Posts: 382 Member
    I approve of your food choice.
  • Querian
    Querian Posts: 419 Member
    I agree that seems like way to much! I might log something like:

    4 oz chicken (or however much you think you ate)
    1 cup mixed veggies
    2 Tbsp refried beans
    2 Tbsp rice
    1 Tbsp oil (to cover any overage and whatever cooking method they used)

    I don't know how much this would come to but I can't imagine it'd be more than 500 calories.

    Unless you ate a whole basket of chips and salsa and didn't tell us that :smile:
  • NikiChicken
    NikiChicken Posts: 576 Member
    Why in the heck would you do that to yourself??? You are punishing yourself for having a good meal? Find similar items in the tracker and use that to guestimate. Last night I ate at a Mexican restaurant - margarita, shrimp fajitas (sans the rice and beans and only 1/2 the tortilla) and a few chips and salsa and it was nowhere near 1500 calories!!!
  • NikiChicken
    NikiChicken Posts: 576 Member
    When I am not sure, I break my meal into all its little pieces and log it that way. So two bites of refried beans, log 2 tbsp (doubt you are taking bigger bites than that)- if there was cheese on the beans then log cheese, log an estimate of how many ounces of chicken, how many ounces of veges, etc.

    This exactly. It's easy to break your meal apart and log it without punishing yourself!
  • sharonfoustmills
    sharonfoustmills Posts: 519 Member
    When I am not sure, I break my meal into all its little pieces and log it that way. So two bites of refried beans, log 2 tbsp (doubt you are taking bigger bites than that)- if there was cheese on the beans then log cheese, log an estimate of how many ounces of chicken, how many ounces of veges, etc.

    This exactly. It's easy to break your meal apart and log it without punishing yourself!

    but be careful not to overlook things, like oil or dressing, etc.
  • pkw58
    pkw58 Posts: 2,038 Member
    I agree with breaking it down as the other posters have said. Unless you ate a basket of chips and tortillas as well as what you described, you have overestimated the calories.

    I eat out anywhere from 7 to 21 meals a week. Most restuarants have a nutrition guide on line or you can estimate from looking at a similar restaurants nutrition guide. Most of them are in the MFP data base or something close.
  • ctinawilson
    ctinawilson Posts: 127 Member
    Not sure where it was you went, but when I go to Chipotle and have a salad (double chicken / lettuce / fajitia veggies / guacamole / tomato salsa), I come out stuffed and that's about 650 calories... hope this helps!

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