The experts say it's just time to climb back on the wagon, simple as that.
Activity often drops, too.
Even if you were on a diet before Thanksgiving, she says, you have to look at dieting as a life-long thing and the holidays as a relatively harmless slip. Beindorff says she is a big believer in exercise, even more so than eating less, as a way of losing or maintaining weight. Those who can't do physical things, like people with arthritis, are in a real predicament. If you can exercise, you are ahead of the game.