A couple of weeks into the promise, Mara sets her phone on a tripod beside the counter. It felt like something worth keeping a record of, she says, and she means it literally. She stands in front of the lens at about 260 lb, soft and round, her belly now a real curve rather than a pinch, her thighs touching at the top, her cheeks fuller.
A whole tray is waiting on the counter. A neighbour dropped it off and she did not say no. She eats standing up, hip against the cabinet, one hand on the tray and the other on her belly, narrating the way she would stir a pot: unhurried, amused, a small laugh before each joke. The camera catches the red bandeau riding a little looser over a fuller bust and the yellow shorts creeping lower under her belly.
She looks at the shorts in the playback and says they are starting to look like a size she used to be. She does not sound sorry. She pushes her bangs aside with one finger, which in Mara means she is about to boast, and boasts: she has never felt better.
The tray empties. She pats her belly twice, like a drum, and reaches for the second one.
There is a quiet domestic charm to this stage. No audience, no rival, no big set piece, just a woman and her kitchen light and a phone recording every extra pound. The footage is for her, and she is delighted by every second of it. When she plays it back, she watches her own belly settle a little lower on the counter between bites, and she gives it a small, approving nod, as if it were a project coming along on schedule.
Mara“Pass it here.”
Mara“These shorts are starting to look like a size I used to be.”
Her outfit at 260 lb: The red bandeau sits looser over a fuller bust, and the yellow shorts ride lower under a soft belly with a small stretch at the seams.
Follow the whole Mara weight gain timeline, see this stage as a panel in the Mara weight gain comic, or read it in her own words in Mara's Feedee Diary: Kitchen Notebook, One Promise, Seven Entries. See every woman at this size on BBW feedee, or meet the cast on feedee girls.