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I was feeling extra thirsty and had a pastey tongue. I grabbed a bottle of cold Water and remembered to take small sips. My sleeve reacted noisely to the cold sips of water. I decided to slowly eat a SF Popsicle. Still feeling thirsty I took a few small sips of a warm Vitamin water zero (tastes yucky) so I decided to do the other SF Popsicle I had about 2 inches left and I took a little bit let it melt in my mouth then swallowed and OUCH!!! It hurt! WTH! So being a warm bloodied creature I took another bite just to make sure and it happened again! Light bulb went off in my HEAD! You have had enough! I tossed the rest of my popsicle and felt okay with doing so! Pre-surgery I would have the need to finish the small piece of popsicle! Waste not Want not!

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A good lesson learned! Keep it with you always! There is a lot more to be gained by WASTING food that cleaning your plate :) - our mentality has to change about such things.

You seem to be doing well! Way to go!

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i decided i wasnt going to join the clean plate or clean popsicle stick club either! no fun!

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IMO, the "clean plate club" should be renamed the "guaranteed big a*# club". Good on you for knowing when to say when.

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My husband thinks its funny that I will eat my food and only have a bite or two left and push it away. I stop when my body tells me, one bite in or one bite from the end. I keep giving my husband the last bites of whatever I have left. He somehow is still losing lots of weight too :)

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Finding that hair's line between "enough" and "ouch" is an ongoing game. Sometimes "ouch" is bite #2, sometimes bite #20. Fortunatey I have different degrees of ouch, and ouch hits quickly (before I can grab another bite). I had a nice soft stop for the first few weeks but that seems to have stopped... dang it.

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my dogs get a ton of "last bites" of my food and they love it, specially since it is mostly Protein :)

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