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  Rob 1:16 am on 21 May 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Day 254: Lost over 4 stone so far 

  As of this morning, I weigh 18st 8lbs – so I’ve lost 4st 1lb!

  I’m well on track within my 1024 days, but I plan to reach a reasonable weight way before then. I’ve actually been pretty reckless food-wise recently, so I’ve only lost a few pounds in the last month – but my weight’s still moving in the right direction.

  I’m initially aiming for 14 stone (which would be totally fine) – but after that I’m going to keep going. The lowest I’ve ever been in my adult life is 13st 5lbs, but I want to go even further this time – I’m aiming for 13 stone. I’m interested to know what I look like at that weight – but obviously if it looks like I’ve gone too far I can easily put a half-stone back on. If there’s one thing I’ve learnt in my life, it’s that gaining weight is very easy!

  Btw – when I look in my wardrobe right now I find myself in some kind of no-man’s land: the fat clothes are too fat, the thin clothes are too thin. Instead of buying new ones I think I’ll focus on speeding up the weight loss so that I can fit into the thin ones. It feels like a good plan.

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    Roja 4:00 am on 20 October 2009 Permalink

    That boy is utterly stunning work!

    Aside: Put some sort of background on the article text as grey on black is pretty hard to read!

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    Rob Howell 9:37 am on 2 November 2009 Permalink

    Cheers mate! As you might've seen on Facebook, I've actually lost more than 6 stone now!

    Thanks for the heads up re. the theme etc – think I must've been mashed when I half-arsed restyling my blog a month or 2 ago. I've set the theme to a generic one for now so that at least everything is readable!

    I'm well shit at updating my blog, so I think I'm gonna switch to a status & video-cented homepage pretty soon, and just keep the blog entries in an archive.

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    Rob Howell 9:38 am on 2 November 2009 Permalink

    And I just fixed the Facebook Connect functionality too. My geek skills have clearly been letting me down!

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    Rob Howell 4:37 pm on 2 November 2009 Permalink

    Cheers mate! As you might've seen on Facebook, I've actually lost more than 6 stone now!

    Thanks for the heads up re. the theme etc – think I must've been mashed when I half-arsed restyling my blog a month or 2 ago. I've set the theme to a generic one for now so that at least everything is readable!

    I'm well shit at updating my blog, so I think I'm gonna switch to a status & video-cented homepage pretty soon, and just keep the blog entries in an archive.

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    Rob Howell 4:38 pm on 2 November 2009 Permalink

    And I just fixed the Facebook Connect functionality too. My geek skills have clearly been letting me down!

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  Rob 6:56 pm on 19 May 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: album, EP, party in the wasteland   

  EPs are the way forward! 

  Long story short: I don’t think releasing an album right now is the best thing for me to do. Even if me and Jim get the rest of the tracks totally nailed, I think it would end up as a fairly random collection of songs rather than a coherant album. Instead, I want to use the tracks we have to make a number of EPs where all the songs fit together properly. And we could release the first one really soon.

  Here’s what I reckon I plan to do next:
  1. Sort the album tracks into lists of songs that make sense together (I’m aiming for at least 4 songs on each EP)
  2. Pick whichever list has the most songs on it that are finished
  3. Finish recording & mixing those songs
  4. Get the EP mastered
  5. Release the EP through a digital distributor (to get it on iTunes, Spotify, 7digital etc)

  Woop!

   
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  Rob 3:46 am on 8 February 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Day 152: Lost over 2 stone so far! 

  I’m sitting on my bed in the wee hours of a Sunday, sometime in February 2009. My evil plan to make my fat arse less fat is going very well. My life is good, my life is busy, and I like it.

  This morning I went to the Farmers Market with my brother Will, my sister-in-law Rowan & my nephew Corin. Bought some more monkfish (been lovin it recently). Then we went to buy shoes for Corin. Turns out there are shops that sell shoes just for kids – who knew?

  Spent the evening with my flatmate Mikey & his missus Amy. We ate the monkfish for dinner, then spent the night chatting and playing guitar. After a hectic week, it was ideal to just chill.

  Was a wicked evening – chatted about all kinds of shit. I played a few new(ish) songs and it suddenly struck me that I’m finally able to fairly successfully write about the most important relationships in my life. I’ve always struggled with that – so it’s nice to be making some damn progress!

  Anyway, the anti-fatness mission is going awesome. I was just short of 22 stone when I started – 21st 9lbs I think – and I’m now 19st 5lbs. I looked on some BMI calculator the other day and apparently I’ve moved from being severely obese (ultimate fatass) to obese (super fatass). I
  still think that the term “morbidly obese” (morbese for short) is much funnier though.

  Mates that I don’t see very often keep noticing that I’ve lost weight, which is always nice. I’m also starting to get quite excited about getting to a normal weight again – for example, Jim and Alex are going suit shopping soon – once I’ve got this weight shifted I definitely have to buy a new suit! Don’t get me wrong, I still won’t do up my top button or put on a tie unless I’m meeting with a client: uncomfortable clothes are a hugely backward concept.

  If I remain as stubborn about this, I’m confident I can get under 14 stone by the end of 2009. I lost about 3 and a half stone in about 4 months one time at Uni, so anything’s possible. Once I’m done, the real challenge begins: keeping the weight off. It’s time to get my weight sorted permanently, and this time I will.

  So here I am, listening to an assortment of beautiful music from my iPod on this Sunday. Hope everyone has a good one!