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  • Nambsalot
    Nambsalot Posts: 4
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    Fajitas are your best bet, and ask if they are grilled or sauteed. If you can request them to be grilled, do so.

    Stay away from cheese, chips, and sour cream. Beans tend to be high in calories, but they're also high in protein. Just don't go crazy. Try to limit yourself to one or two of the mini tortillas (I rip them up and make a sort of fajita salad on my plate), and be mindful of guacamole. It has a lot of calories, but it also has a lot of really good vitamins and fatty acids. The good news is that salsa and hot sauce are usually very very low in calories, so you can go a little crazy with those. And of course, lettuce is pretty much a freebie.
  • ecw3780
    ecw3780 Posts: 608 Member
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    Choose cheese or sour cream or guacamole but not all three. Corn tortillas over flour. Veggies instead of rice. If you can, order ala cart instead of a plate. Example: 2 tacos instead of the taco dinner with rice and beans. Count out 12 chips on a plate. Eat as much salsa has you want with those 12 chips, but no more. 12 chips is about 160 calories.
  • GURLEY_GIRL3
    GURLEY_GIRL3 Posts: 359 Member
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    lOTS OF CHOICES IF YOU STAY AWAY FROM CHEESE AND ANYTHING FRIED.
    i LOVE THE CHICKEN SOUP LOADED W/ VEGGIES AND SLICED AVOCADO
    GRILLED SHRIMP SALAD NO CHEESE W/ PICO AND AVOCADO
    GRILLED CHICKEN BREAST W/ STEAMED VEGGIES
    2 GRILLED CHICKEN TACOS W/ LETTUCE PICO AND AVOCADO

    I EAT 5 CHIPS AND SALSA JUST TO SATIFY MY NEED TO CRUNCH LOL
  • Macgeek74
    Macgeek74 Posts: 298 Member
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    Where I live, the Mexican places are the hot spots. great food and drinks. WHite queso:)
  • daffodilsoup
    daffodilsoup Posts: 1,972 Member
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    I love getting vegetable fajitas - I leave the tortilla off, mix the veggies together with the rice, beans, guac and salsa and dig in!
  • breyn2004
    breyn2004 Posts: 162 Member
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    The fajitas with no tortillas or corn tortillas are always my go to, but I can never stay away from the dang chips and salsa! My nutritionist always told me the fajitas were the way to go.
  • TimeForMe99
    TimeForMe99 Posts: 309
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    I have heard that if you eat the chips and salsa with your non-dominant hand that you are more conscious of how much you are eating and won't eat as much.

    A thought..... :smile:

    If I did that the chips and salsa would be on my blouse and not in my mouth, so definitely a calorie saver!
  • rocket_ace
    rocket_ace Posts: 380 Member
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    mexican restaurants are the easiest to eat clean. order some lean grilled meat, a side of veggies and beans. can't get much cleaner. have some gauc also, just skip the rice, chips and cheese/sour cream. no desert (unless they have fruit). and no Margarita (also one tequila w/ soda is fine!!).
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
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    Eat the fried ice cream and don't worry about it for one night.

    I am 100% serious.
  • BlackStarDeceiver
    BlackStarDeceiver Posts: 590 Member
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    I could eat Mexican all day everyday.
  • 1ConcreteGirl
    1ConcreteGirl Posts: 3,677 Member
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    I could eat Mexican all day everyday.

    Sir...That's racist!

    Not to the Mexican he eats!
  • Alex_is_Hawks
    Alex_is_Hawks Posts: 3,499 Member
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    I could eat Mexican all day everyday.

    Sir...That's racist!

    but but but....there's just something about those tacos....
  • Countryboy_
    Countryboy_ Posts: 618
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    I could eat Mexican all day everyday.

    NO wonder Mario looks up to you so hard Greg....
  • annepage
    annepage Posts: 585 Member
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    If possible, sticking with veg and lean protein. Maybe chicken, black beans, beef, depending on how the meats are cooked. If they are drenched in oil, then try to avoid.

    Salads, stir fried veg, no tortilla, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, rice.
  • smtillman2
    smtillman2 Posts: 756 Member
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    I always get Pollo Ranchero

    Shredded Chicken
    Pico De Gallo
    Rice
    Sub refried beans for Black Beans
    and I don't eat the the tortillas

    It's YUMMY YUMMY!
  • _Elemenopee_
    _Elemenopee_ Posts: 2,665 Member
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    lOTS OF CHOICES IF YOU STAY AWAY FROM CHEESE AND ANYTHING FRIED.
    i LOVE THE CHICKEN SOUP LOADED W/ VEGGIES AND SLICED AVOCADO
    GRILLED SHRIMP SALAD NO CHEESE W/ PICO AND AVOCADO
    GRILLED CHICKEN BREAST W/ STEAMED VEGGIES
    2 GRILLED CHICKEN TACOS W/ LETTUCE PICO AND AVOCADO

    I EAT 5 CHIPS AND SALSA JUST TO SATIFY MY NEED TO CRUNCH LOL

    THIS.....ALL OF THIS BECAUSE YOU KNOW....WE'RE YELLING
  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
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    oh man.. mexican is my favorite.. I get wahtever I want and just exercise harder or eat a smaller lunch or chalk it up to a yummy day. LOL>

    I guess you could go for somethign with a lot of veggies and not a lot of sauce and with fish or chicken in it.


    I'm done as soon as they put the chip bowl on the table.. the salsa most of those places make is amazing!

    and no Margarita
    BLASPHME!!!
  • BlackStarDeceiver
    BlackStarDeceiver Posts: 590 Member
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    I could eat Mexican all day everyday.

    Sir...That's racist!

    they call me el diablo blanco for a reason

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