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Anecdotal evidence here. Throughout my life I have been on diets various time, never because of extreme obesity but like a lot of people in IT, I do not get enough movement and over time gain weight. Thus every 2 years or so I end up going on a diet to lose the weight that I have gained, and in the past I used to mainly drink (sparkling) water when I did this, and always had positive results.

Now I have been trying to diet again but instead of replacing my sugary drinks with the "zero" version of them (coke zero to be specific) I _seem_ to lose weight slower.

Could be a lot more factors in play, but my wife has been suggestion that even those zero drinks have a negative effect on the diet, so she will enjoy this article :-)

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As you get older, it is always more difficult to loose weight. Your last diet will (probably) be the most difficult.

Look into whether you might have anterior pelvic tilt (APT), what I call "sitting disease," which causes your hips to tilt forward, making you look like you have a big ol' gut. This is caused by the sitting position (simplified) stretching out your backside and not stretching your frontside. When you have a more neutral posture, your silhouette is much less "heavy" looking. That is, it may not be that you have weight to lose so much as you at a normal weight looks worse than it is.

At any rate, dieting will involve more than switching to coke zero. :)

Oh I was unaware of that, but the way I set when working is far from ergonomically good I fear.

My diet was never just switching my drinks luckily! :-)