[SV] & [NSV] Two victories in one day + progress pics!

At the beginning of this year my roommate (he's down over 40 pounds!) and I decided it was time to lose weight and get into shape. My girlfriend is also counting calories and doing really well! I created a spreadsheet to keep track of my calories and give me lots of stats about my weight loss, BMI, caloric intake, etc. I know that there are sites that can do most of this, but I'm a spreadsheet nerd and I enjoyed writing all of the formulas and whatnot.

Anyways, I've been shooting for a 1,000 calorie daily deficit and was able to do that for quite a while, but I've been closer to a 500-750 calorie daily deficit lately. I usually eat between 1,700 and 2,000 calories per day. I started walking to/from work a few days a week (1.5 miles each way) and working out 2-4 times per week doing either cardio or weights.

Stats:

Height: ~5'9"

Age: 22

Before: 262lbs, XL/XXL shirts, 40-42 pants, 18.5" neck, size 50 suit

Now: 212lbs, L shirts, 36-38 pants, 17" neck, size 44 suit

Today I had two victories, one SV and one NSV:

Scale Victory: As of this morning I'm down 50 pounds! I've tried to lose weight a few times before and had never lost more than 15-20 pounds so hitting the 50-pound mark is awesome! Only 37 more pounds to my goal weight of 175. I'm confident that I'll stick with it this time around. 6-7 months and still going strong!

Non-Scale Victory: I studied abroad in Hong Kong while in college and bought a few shirts there. The sizes are way different than here so the largest size that they had was an XXL and those fit about like a L shirt here in the US. People over there are much shorter/smaller. I never thought the shirts would actually fit me so I gave a couple away as gifts and tucked the rest away in my closet, still in the plastic sleeves that they came in. I tried one on today and to my great surprise, it fit very nicely (see pics below)!

I always enjoy reading posts on loseit and am always motivated by everyone's before/after photos. Here are my before photos and some photos I took today:

Before Photos

Down 50lbs!