BDSM is Love

Are you required to work out or keep in shape? Is that something closely monitored by your Master/Owner, or is that an area in which you are expected to be proactive? –from Kindlings

While this is a really old Kindlings prompt, I felt it fit into my current submissive life. I am working on loosing weight and getting healthy so that I can live to be a wonderfully happy and fit submissive for Master for many many years to come. If you’d like to know how my diet is going, see my diet blog Recreating Me. I’m doing pretty good I think.

So, to answer the question from Kindlings, yes I am required to work out and keep in shape as well as diet. It isn’t closely monitored by Master but he has one thing he makes sure I remember. I can not quit. It’s just not allowed. I have to exercise 3 times a week for at least a half hour and to make sure I’m entering my food intake into my food diary.

I’ve not been punished for failing at anything diet or exercise wise, even though I asked for him to be very strict about my exercise and dole out punishment if I skip a required day. I think he doesn’t want to make me hate it. Now, it’s not like I love it, it’s just something… to do.

On a more personal front, I’ve not felt too submissive lately and when I do it’s mostly in a sexual nature. I am hoping that this will change when I get the stress of finals week off my chest. I know that one can’t feel submissive all the time. I know that as long as I make Master happy and fulfill his every wish as best as possible, that I will be an even better submissive for him when I feel completely filled with the submissive heart.

Do Dominants ever feel this way? How do they continue with what is necessary for the power exchange relationship even when they don’t feel it?

–luna