What did I do wrong???
#29403 - 11/30/03 10:54 AM
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Laurel
Reged: 11/21/03
Posts: 28
Loc: Los Angeles, CA
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I had El Pollo Loco last night for the first time since starting my diet, and I got sick. I thought I did everything right: I started with rice, then ate the flour tortillas with rice, chicken and hot sauce. At the end of my meal I had the pinto beans. I also took a fibercon with the meal. I had raspberry iced tea (nestea) to drink.
Any ideas of where I might have gone wrong?? I really enjoy El Pollo Loco, and thought it was safe to eat!!
Laurel 
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Don't know for sure what El Pollo Loco is. Was the chicken or beans oily? It may be the beans or the hot sauce - you may be sensitive to them. Sometimes iced tea can be a problem because of the caffeine. It could also be something you ate earlier.
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A restaurant here in Southern California that serves healthy mexican food. Their chicken is white meat & flame-broiled, and does have skin on it, but I didn't eat that at all.
The hot sauce has never affected me before, but who knows?! You are right-it could be the iced tea as well.
In any case , thank you for the help!
Laurel 
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El Pollo Loco.......HAHA! That's hilarious! Ok, sorry, I'm a little weird.....
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Sometimes they cook the chicken in oil, so you have to watch that. Just ask them to prepare it with minimal oil when you order. Are you used to eating beans? It could have been that too. Or it could have been other ingredients in the iced tea, like high fructose corn syrup - I'm not familiar with the ingredients for nestea raspberry, so I'm not sure. Plus, of course the caffeine.
It just could have been all the little things combined too.
Anyway, hope you're feeling better now, and have better luck next time! 
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When I recently went with a friend I had white meat only (you have a choice) and pulled the skin off, rice, corn cobbett with no butter just salt, corn tortillas and plain water to drink. Oh yes, and just a touch of the pico de gallo, which is chopped tomatoes, some onion (I picked that out since it was raw onion) mild chiles and cilantro. From what I could tell, since they cook the chickens in plain sight they are flame broiled, and I didn't see them get basted. Nonetheless if you take the skin off you'd be taking the basting oils/fats off as well. I think your choices were just a little off when it came to the beans and tea, and you know you may have had a high fat flour tortilla....they sure looked like they had fat in them to me...most do anyway. Are you at all wheat sensitive? Fructose sensitive?
Kandee 
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Your tips sound good! Next time, I am going to get corn tortillas instead. I thought that the flour ones looked a little fatty, and I guess I was right, but I couldn't remember if corn tortillas were on the diet or not?
The beans are probably too heavy for me too, so I'll skip them and the tea next time! I was going to get the corn cobbette, but I couldn't remember if it was ok to eat on the diet or not either!
Thank you!!
Laurel
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Ah, as I remember from when I was still at home (in Texas/Mexico, not California) everything at El Pollo Loco is oily, down to the rice. You may have gotten off to a wrong start with it - isn't it fried? Next time, start with the tortilla maybe and some skinless chicken (Although, I remember the oiliness of even the skinless white chicken. I think it is really saturated to compensate for the dryness of white meat.). Did you have guacamole? From what I've read, avocado is soluble if a little fatty. Go easy on the rice and beans - definitely. True Mexican beans are cooked in bacon or at least animal fat for taste.
Soda fountain teas are guaranteed to be really sugary, so beware. Fruity or sugary drinks always make me fill ill. That might have sent you for a loop as well. I agree, next time, drink water. All in all, El Pollo Loco can definitely be a pitfall, but there's no reason not to enjoy it, in moderation. I hope this helps.
*evie
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Crazy "chicks"
#29444 - 11/30/03 04:21 PM
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Kandee
Reged: 05/22/03
Posts: 3206
Loc: USA, Southern California
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Glad you may be able to use the tips. (I save a lot of money out by not buying drinks I can't drink anyway.<G>) You may want to test whole kernel corn on your system at home first. It has a lot of insoluble fiber in that form. Some IBS folks CAN do corn, some can't.
I can, fortunately.
Hmmm, you're making me hungry for my own homemade corn chowder............think I'll have to go crank up the Vita-Mix........  Kandee AKA your IBS crazy chick friend 
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Hi Laurel,
Myself, I would lay off of the hot sauce and that fancy tea? Did you chew it up good? Sounds like talking to a baby....ha ha/ But there is truth in that.
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If you try all these suggestions and you still have an attack...you my just be overeating.
I can have a completely safe meal...but if I eat more than my regular small helping I will have an attack.
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Laurel: I've gotten sick before on restaurant tortillas. There are several different ways to make them, maybe these had more lard in them than usual. Also, it could have been just poor handling of the chicken by the workers. I don't know too many 16 year olds who know how to keep things clean and sterile in a kitchen!
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