Todd Zywicki at the Volokh Conspiracy is writing on the relationship between soft drink consumption and obesity. Now I'm not saying there is one for you, but I have definitely noticed a trend in me.
When I graduated college I was 6' and 155 lbs. By the time I took my current job with the Army, I was 175 lbs. I topped out at around 185. It wasn't good weight either. I was starting to turn into a skinny kid with a gut. Not pretty.
What happened? Well I went from walking several miles a day in college to sitting on my butt for 9 hours a day at a desk. Plus I was consuming a lot of processed foods and soft drinks. What did I do to fix this? I used the thermodynamics diet. I consumed fewer empty calories and started increasing my activity level to burn off what I had put on. Now I play Ultimate Frisbee after work once a week and make the occasional trips to the gym or walk around the neighborhood. I also cut my soda consumption down to one can of Coke in the morning. Everything else is 0 calorie diet. I never ate a good breakfast so I cut breakfast out entirely and made sure my dinner was a good meal not a sodium laced "create-a-meal" out of a bag.
My weight is holding fairly constant at 175 which is good for my height. To this day I can tell when I'm gaining though and its not by how my clothes fit or any of that. I simply look in my recycling container at home. Lots of soda cans or bottles corrolates to fatter.
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