Are chicken fajitas healthy

It's a very healthy meal even with the cheese and sour cream.
Whether it will tip you over your daily MFP allowance depends on what else you've consumed that day, the size of the fajita, and how much filling you include.

if I do chicken fajitas I don't do cream or cheese. Just all the veg, salsa, and chick.

Would be even lower calorie as oyster mushroom instead of chicken

OMG this thread is still giving 😂

I would most certainly have the tortilla! Was just offering an option to those who wouldn't.

It's a real downer though when you realise you need to do a 5k to burn off the calories from 2 tortillas!

I just have a fully loaded tortilla with what ever I want in it. I'll just fast through the day, or eat very little. Intimittent fasting has been a lifestyle change for me.

A tortilla is about 120 calories. Have the tortilla, enjoy your fajitas. Unless you genuinely enjoy lettuce instead of wraps. (I’d have the lettuce and the wrap 😂)

have the tortilla. Don’t deprive yourself so you don’t feel satisfied. It’s easy to find 120 cals to cut somewhere else, have a smaller lunch, cut a snack out or a couple of cups of tea.

i never feel full unless i have balanced carbs.

I don't intend to sustain a calorie deficit once I get to the point where I am done losing weight I will eat the amount of calories that are appropriate to maintain the weight that I'm at. It's already been over a year. And my overall health is vastly improved; I'm being monitored by my doctor.

Instead of wrapping them up in tortillas, use lettuce leaves

Skyr is Icelandic not Greek

Just count the actual calories and then decide. That is the only way to achieve a calorie deficit.

Personally I wouldn’t eat a fajita without a wrap, cheese or sour cream as it would just be chicken, onion and peppers. Hardly a fajita then is it. If you limit yourself and force yourself to have sub standard versions of your favourite food your diet isn’t going to be sustainable for very long. You need to enjoy what you eat.

Have your fajita as you normally would but limit it to one tortilla if you’re trying to lose weight.

I skip sour cream and cheese and add lots of veg. Can’t see how they’re too unhealthy.

I don’t buy the kits and just pick up the seasoning packets.

If you cook without oil it can be healthier (dry fry) in a good non stick pan.

Also if you can't live without those naughty stuff like cheese and sour cream have you thought about lettuce or cabbage as the wrap substitute instead? I like it with a blanched Savoy cabbage leaf it's one of my clean eating subs when I do calorie control/clean eating.

Mmm I’m hungry now 😂 … I hope you enjoyed them

To make them as healthy as possible,

1. make your own guacamole, or just mash an avocado with salt and pepper. Skip the sour cream.
2. switch the packet spices for cumin, smoked paprika and seasoning to taste. The old El Paso style spice mixes are loaded with salt and sugar.
3. Making your own wraps will cut out some additives but who realistically has time for that? 😂 Cauliflower rice is a good alternative if you’d enjoy that.
4. Use cheese if you enjoy it, but use less, and make sure it’s extra mature cheddar for maximum flavour per calorie.
5. Load the fajita mix with beans and veggies, and some lean chicken.

Going over your calories for 1 day and enjoying a meal therefore satisfying your cravings will not make you put on weight.

You could have a fulfilling dinner then compensate by skimping on calories tomorrow so as long as your calories are down overall across a week, you'd still be heading in the right direction.

Good luck and I hope you enjoyed your fajitas 😀

@Waterballoons no I don't think it's fair enough to make a claim that something is backed by science then tell posters to go off and research it. Saying it's debunked means f all. So I'd be very interested in seeming some peer reviewed studies from medical journals if you have any. Otherwise I'll assume you've been misled.

You just have to adjust it.

when I don’t care about calories I fill them with chicken, veg, cheese, sour cream, salsa and white wraps

When I do care I fill them with mostly veg, some chicken, protein wrap, a light sprinkling of low fat cheese

Same meal but totally different calories

I mean the fact that you say "calorie controlled diets were brought in the 1980s" shows you are talking about some specific "You can lose weight FAST" fad nonsense. Calorie controlled diets were brought in the first time the hunters failed to bring in enough game to feed the whole group.

Which is what I said could be the case in the first place, and which you scoffed at.

Putting the weight back on when you start eating again has absolutely nothnig to do with the fact (and it is a fact) that a caloric deficit makes you lose fat and doesn't "debunk" that scientific fact.
We are talking about science and you are talking about "health plans".

Where are the studies that found that a person can eat in excess of their calorie requirements and lose weight and conversely who can eat less than their calorie requirements and gain weight

Just one will do

I don’t suppose Zoe would have any sort of reason for wanting to debunk calorie controlled diets?

to sell more of their glucose monitors and programmes, for example?

interesting that you choose this one.

have you actually read that link you posted?

it states that reducing calories does result in weight loss. Its focus is on the issues that it’s hard to accurately count calories, which is true, but easily compensated for by balancing your intake with your weight loss. That and long term weight loss, which of course is also true as most people return to their original habits.

it does not “debunk” the theory that cutting calories doesn’t cause weight loss.

One big reason (there are many others) is that they do nothing for your overall health. You may have lost weight but in the medium to long term it’s highly probable that you will put it all back on again, and more. I believe the data says most people will put it on in a year. It also says, looking at large scale studies, that you put on more than you weighed in the first place. They are not sustainable health plans, do nothing for your overall diet (you could have a 1000 calorie diet and fulfill that by having 4 mars bars only every day), do nothing to ensure you have enough fibre (very critical), do nothing for your gut microbiome. I could go on and on.

I’m definitely not meaning to ridicule anyone. I just wouldn’t think it’s ok to demand from someone that they provide information to support their posts on mumsnet when they could just take themselves to the internet to do their own research. It’s not exactly a controversial statement. Calorie controlled diets were brought in in the 80s and have been debunked for more than 10 years now. It’s not new. I just think surely you can take your phone and do your own research? I wouldn’t expect someone to give me a list of publications to support a post that they are making. I’d just look it up myself.

I’d love to see them. I bet they’re all from leading science teams at good universities.