Target?

As with any other woman in this society, shayla was in, shall we say, less than ideal physical condition when she came to her Master. Baldly put, she was overweight. Master immediately began to work on that particular facet. Aside from pleasing him, her main goal is to get into shape.

Many women would say that Master's just wanting her to look good for himself, but it's much more than that. Each time the topic is brought up Master asks shayla if she can imagine how she'll feel about herself when she reaches her target weight. And as time goes by, she gets more and more feedback from not only Master, but the people she works with and comes across about how much better she's looking. And it really affects her feelings for herself. A confirmation of how she's doing, encouragement that her effort really is doing something. Though nobody's compliment, admiring glance, nothing compares to Master's smile when he takes a moment to look at how she's progressing.

Target weight? What's shayla's target weight? She asked Master that exact question tonight. His reponse, 'I don't know, it might be another four pounds from now, if you keep building muscle.' As always, he's right. Shayla's not been the size she is now since she was 18. And has long since forgotten what it was like to have that stature again. And she's still got a couple trouble spots to deal with. So not only Master, but shayla also is in new territory. Progress has been uneven, but always in the same direction.

As it is, right now shayla already is a bit proud (at least, as much as is proper for a kajira to be) of how she looks right now. While she almost doesn't recognize herself in the mirror anymore, she enjoys knowing that the strange, increasingly lovely, almost slender woman looking back at her is actually herself. Right now, it's a little odd to shayla to have certain physical aspects re-emerging. The shape of her legs, bone structure in her face, even her hands and arms have been changing. The anklet that shayla wears continually has been loose enough she's had to remove an inches worth of links from it. Clothes that were snug even six weeks ago have begun to be loose on her.

So what's her target, her physical goal? Master'll let her know when she gets there. In the meantime she's going to enjoy the fact that she's less than 25 pounds away from where she was when all the weight gain started, & up the intensity of her workouts.

shayla