are chicken fajitas from a Mexican restaurant healthy?

No Guac?! :sad:

But yep - fajitas are usually one of the best choices, especially with the corn tortillas. I'd have some black beans for added fiber though if they have them (and the guac!!)

No Guac?! :sad:

But yep - fajitas are usually one of the best choices, especially with the corn tortillas. I'd have some black beans for added fiber though if they have them (and the guac!!)

dont worry..I am crying with you !!! But they do not have any healthy guac! lol

Avocados arn't nutritious?

:frown:

I eat fajitas about once a week. I go to a "hole in the wall", as well, but use the closest thing I can find on MFP. Mexican food is absolutely one of my favorite things. I switched from eating chicken fajita nachos weekly to just fajitas, generally only with on tortilla, if any.

Enjoy it! As far as restaurant food goes, it's not a bad choice.

Its just the way this place makes theres. There is a bunch of cream cheese in it.

I love guacamole. That sounds nasty and is not guacamole. More like an avocado dip.
Aren't there are other Mexican restaurants around you?

I like to order the fajitas and eat them without the wraps. Delicious!! I have a bad habit of eating a few chips though when I go, love chips and salsa.

Not particularly.

I go out once a week and I go to this Mexican restaurant. The only thing I can think of that is healthy is their fajitas. I get it with no cheese, no rice or beans, no guac and I eat it with two corn tortillas and salsa. I also do not eat any chips. What do you think? Its a hole in the wall so they have no listed nutrition =(

Your fajitas sound like basic street tacos. Which I enjoy. But still - you're more or less paying for fajitas and eating tacos (I guess your tortillas aren't fried / grilled, though).

I go out once a week and I go to this Mexican restaurant. The only thing I can think of that is healthy is their fajitas. I get it with no cheese, no rice or beans, no guac and I eat it with two corn tortillas and salsa. I also do not eat any chips. What do you think? Its a hole in the wall so they have no listed nutrition =(

I think it depends on the restaurant and how they prepare their meat. If the owners are mexican you can ask for the meat to be " asada " or " a la plancha " or generally " sin grasa " ( it means that the meat is prepared on a griddle, or a comal without any fat ).
That should cut down on the calories. I have no idea how fajitas are prepared, since they are not really Mexican food, but are starting to be known as " Tex-Mex " here.
In general I don't quite understand why people are so fearful of Mexican food ( apart of course from the US portion size ). I live in Mexico City and eat mexican food each and every day and have lost 50 pounds over the last year. If you look at the pictures in my profile page you see one of a green plate with rice, beans and fajita veggies without the meat....total 340 calories. All the other pictures of food are also Mexican and the kind that fits easily into my 1200 calories a day regimen ( 1200 because I am older and under 5 feet tall ) but what you will discover is that we don't eat cheese and cream on everything...that's more of a Tex-Mex thing...and if there is cheese sprinkled on something it's usually a white farmers cheese and not the high fat stuff that passes as " mexican " cheese in the US. You could always ask if they have " queso blanco " ( farmer's cheese) or queso cotija " or " panela "
It's a good thing you eat corn tortillas. At around 50-55 calories they are a powerhouse of good nutrition....unlike flour tortillas, which are a waste of good calories.
I would say if the Fajitas are not made with too much fat they should from what I gather just be meat, onion and peppers, which are healthy and low cal and you can add beans ( frijoles de olla....plain cooked beans are full of protein and not that high in calories) and rice....with " arroz blanco " ( white rice ) being the one with the least calories due to it's preparation.

In general I don't quite understand why people are so fearful of Mexican food ( apart of course from the US portion size ). I live in Mexico City and eat mexican food each and every day and have lost 50 pounds over the last year.

I agree. When I was in college I lived in Mexico City for seven weeks and ate traditional Mexican food every day, including Coke daily.
I lost approximately ten pounds without trying. By the time I returned to the US, all my clothes were loose.

Well if it is guac with cream cheese that is just weird.

I would see if they possibly have some iceberg leaves and go lettuce wrap. Add back in the cheese. Nothing wrong with that. Load the salsa. Stay away from the sour cream.

If you skip the tortillas there's little outside of the "whole food" realm and lots of veggies.

that's my go to- I assume it's several hundred calories but the big kicker with those is- it's way to easy to over eat.

I ball park somewhere between 700-900 for it and just go on about my day- and try not to over eat- since I ALWAYS roll out of there stuffed to the gills LOL

edit: I pick a chain listed entry to add so I have SOMETHING- and I just ball park the actual serving size or numbers based on what it looked like as far as grease content and crap I put on there.

This is exactly what I do with small family Chinese and Italian restaurants. It seems to work ok, as long as I don't fib to myself. :ohwell: