2012, The Beginning of the End

Here we are at the beginning of a new year, 2012.  By many accounts this is The year.  12/21/2012, the end of the world.  ( just heard "Twilight Zone," theme music in my head.)  It's true, just ask any Mayan you happen to meet on the street to open their day planner and penciled in right next to, "Human Sacrifice Palooza" is "End of the World Festival 2012".
Okay, I don't know a lot about the Mayan Calendar but, as for me, 2012, is the beginning of the end of me treating my body like a human garbage dump.  Stop trying to check and see if you've got the right name associated with this blog!  It's me, Deb Janosko, vegetarian, yoga teacher, promoter of mind, body, & spiritual health, and closet junky!
Hello, my name is Debra J. Janosko, and I am a substance abuser.  Crack?   Heroin?  No, but the substance I'm abusing is processed in much the same way.  It's just as potent, addictive, and destructive to the body.  A strange white crystal, C12H220, a.k.a. SUGAR!  While you wouldn't catch me within a city block of willingly sticking a needle in my arm, you're likely, on any given day, to find me sucking the life out of a lemon drop or a Hershey's Kiss.  I am not discriminate at all when it comes to sugar.  Never found a sweet I wouldn't eat!
Alas, I have hit rock bottom.  Sugar is taking it's toll on my body and I can no longer tolerate the symptoms.  Migraines, chronic fatigue, irritability, bloating, anxiety, depression, not to mention the tooth decay or premature aging of the skin.  (Tell me crack has anything on sugar....) There's also the constantly high insulin levels which causes my body to store excess carbs as fat! That's just what's going on today.  Sugar damage is slow and insidious.  After years of abuse, sugar destroys the pancreas, adrenals, throws the entire endocrine system out of whack causing a long list of damages. STOP THE TRAIN, I WANNA GET OFF!!!!!!  I am going cold turkey and that doesn't mean I'll be gnawing on that left-over turkey leg, YUCK!  I'm starting a 21 day green juice fast, system reboot on 01/01/2012.  The beginning of the end.....of my sugar addiction.
Statistics show that the average American man, woman, boy, or girl, consumes 115lbs. of sugar per year.  In our country, you're locked up, and rightly so, if you throw your babies in a rattlesnake pit but it's perfectly acceptable to pop Twinkies in their mouths all day.  Why is that?  We are criminal if we choice to destroy of own bodies with alcohol, meth, heroin, etc... but it's quite alright to choose to kill yourself with sugar.  Really?
One way or the other, the Mayans were right, 2012, is the beginning of the end.  We get to choose which end we are beginning.