Reducing Steps to Mitigate Weight Gain After Prolonged Prep?

How do you reduce your steps to mitigate weight gain after a long prep where you have doubled your daily step count for months? Do you just pull your steps down to where they were prior to prep or do you slowly titrate them down? If so, how do you do that? Are you pulling them down by 2,000 every day for one week, then another 2,000 every day for the 2nd week, etc.?