Overview
- Nutrition specialists advise returning to regular sleep, movement, and balanced meals rather than using prolonged fasting, liquid cleanses, or punishing workouts to “compensate.”
- Practical pre-meal tactics include a few olives, pickles, or diluted apple‑cider vinegar to blunt glucose spikes, then starting meals with proteins and fats instead of rapidly absorbed carbohydrates.
- Post‑meal walks and everyday movement, such as 30–60 minutes of walking or taking stairs, support glucose use and help steady metabolism after large celebrations.
- A five‑to‑seven‑day reset focuses on vegetables at every meal, lean proteins, moderate complex carbohydrates, reduced salt and alcohol, consistent meal times, no snacking between meals, and ample hydration.
- Institutional estimates note higher seasonal intake—SEDCA cites up to 30% more calories and IMEO reports an average gain of four kilos—though clinicians emphasize much of the short‑term increase reflects fluid and intestinal contents that typically recede within days.