Stefan: > 1. A feeling that my stomach is full Often happens, but I don't always listen to the stop soon enough. It may indicate that your stomach stopped secreting gastric fluids. > 2. I am satisfied and don't want to continue > 3. My stomach gives a feeling as if it has become a hard knot and can't > take in any further food Same remarks. > 4. I am biting into my lips/into the mucous membrans of my mouth. If I > continue it occurs more and more > 5. I let drop my fruit. Also occurs more and more if I continue Happens to me too: shows that I pay less attention to the food, sonce it is less pleasant. 5] happens with nuts or dates. > 6. A scratching feeling in my throat > 7. My lips stick together as if I had eaten an adhesive Maybe a lack of saliva secretion (happens with nuts, for instance) > 8. I swallow the wrong way. See 4. see 4. > 9. A burning feeling on my tongue or in my throat It may be the same kind of instinctive stop that occurs with pineapples. I sometimes have a burning sensation with kiwifruits, honey, dates. > 10. My mouth becomes so dry that it is impossible to continue see 6. If I continue eating dried nuts, some bits will insert between two teeth, which causes pain in the gums, and even bleeding. > 11. The muscles of my jaw seem to tire. Most often if eating hard vegetable> s. > It is more and more difficult to chew Maybe less saliva is secreted, and maybe you are less willing to make the effort of chewing. > 12. I make mistakes when opening another fruit. E.g. instead of cracking the > next nut I jam my fingers; instead of cutting the next piece of a sweet > potato I cut into my hand See 4. But it happens to me too when I am so eager to eat that I manipulate my knife too quickly. > 13. I have no strength anymore to crack another nut, to get out one more > piece of a jackfruit and so on See 11. > 14. The food in my mouth doesn't change its taste but it changes its > consistency: it becomes slimy, glibbery, sticky, ... (always unpleasant> ) Probably a change in the salivary composition. > 15. The mucous membrans of my mouth or by tongue become etched by the food > and protest. Do you mean the sensation with pineapples, onions or cabbage? > 16. I must cough. See 4. Happens with grains of cereals. I would add: 17. eat more and more slowly and B. Comby would add: 18. My hands are not swift enough to catch any more grasshoopers. Best wishes of clear instinctive stops, Jean-Louis.