I Am Addicted to Coke ......Coca Cola that is

It has been a while since I posted. I have recently moved to Texas. Prior to moving I had a period of two months where my husband was traveling on business and I was sitting in mostly empty house with very little to do. We were supposed to actually leave Florida quite a bit sooner than we did so I had already quit my job.
In that time I fell back on my comfort foods or in my case comfort beverage, Coca cola. Some people get a beer gut from excessive alcohol and I have gotten some tummy bulge that has soda written all over it. I love soda.Hi my name is ....(not gonna tell you that)...and I am addicted to Coca Cola. I crave it and when I go out to eat or to the grocery store I have to have one. When I am stressed in only gets worse. When my mother in law was living with us last year I nearly gave myself an ulcer with all the soda I drank. I will sneak it like real addicts hiding their drugs . I am defensive when caught. "What Coke, this isn't a Coke. I was holding it for a friend who was thirsty. I only had a little sip."
This is a real addiction folks only there are no interventions, support groups or fundraisers for my addiction. People just laugh at me. I have found that for me I have to just quit it cold turkey or it is a slippery slope. One leads to two and before I know it I have binged on a whole two liter in just two days. I can drink a 20 0z soda on the way home from the grocery store which is under a mile away. Some people think that a cold beer is great, some people like wine, for me that first icy sip of a Coca Cola is just about perfect. My husband laughs because very often I make the Ahhh sound after I drink it.
I know this seems ridiculous with all of the stuff people are really addicted to but this is truly my addiction. Why is this a problem, all of the behavior I talked about above and the calories!!!

So how does this tie in to the whole idea of exercise? Obviously all that soda makes me fatter and thus I need to exercise. Less obvious is the idea that when I am craving a soda if I go to the gym and run three miles the soda becomes less appealing. Three miles is a lot to run. I hate it but in the end I have burned just over 300 calories ( yes that is all you burn in three miles of running) and I don't feel like adding calories with soda. Two cans of soda is 300 calories. Imagine how many miles I would have to go to burn off the two liter I binged on. I fight my soda addiction one day at a time but it is a constant battle.
I know a lot of you are thinking just switch to diet or Coke zero but that is not going to work. It just does not taste the same. Wish me luck, it is not like they have AA for me.